{"id":3076,"date":"2008-01-22T06:22:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/but_is_that_because_there_arent_any_bedbugs_or_simply_because_people_in_other_boroughs_are_bigger_complainers.html"},"modified":"2008-01-22T06:22:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T14:22:03","slug":"but_is_that_bec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/but_is_that_bec.html","title":{"rendered":"But Is That Because There Aren&#8217;t Any Bedbugs Or Simply Because People In Other Boroughs Are Bigger Complainers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No 311, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2008\/01\/22\/2008-01-22_dont_tell_bedbugs_about_the_bronx.html\">no honey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Next week, the city begins a series of seminars at venues all over town on avoiding bedbugs &#8212; except in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>The reason isn&#8217;t that city officials don&#8217;t want to come to the Bronx &#8211; but rather that, apparently, the bedbugs don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>While some residents of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens are in a near panic over the worsening citywide infestation, people in the Bronx don&#8217;t seem to be bugged by the critters &#8212; yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bronx had the second-lowest number of complaints last year,&#8221; said Seth Donlin of the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which keeps track of such calls to the city&#8217;s 311 hotline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the lowest total after Staten Island, which is statistically insignificant,&#8221; Donlin said.<\/p>\n<p>Bronx residents called to complain about bedbugs just 1,117 times last year, and HPD documented only 347 actual infestations.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn saw the most complaints by far, according to HPD, with 2,382 calls and 692 infestations &#8212; double the Bronx totals.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan followed with 1,729 calls, just ahead of Queens, which saw 1,602 complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Infestations by the blood-sucking insects in the city have skyrocketed in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>In fiscal year 2004 the 311 hotline received only 1,800 calls about bedbugs citywide, but by 2007 the number had more than tripled, to nearly 7,000 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Bedbugs were all but eradicated in the United States decades ago. But with the banning of the powerful pesticides used to kill them and increased global travel there has been a resurgence.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 311, no honey: Next week, the city begins a series of seminars at venues all over town on avoiding bedbugs &#8212; except in the Bronx. The reason isn&#8217;t that city officials don&#8217;t want to come to the Bronx &#8211; but rather that, apparently, the bedbugs don&#8217;t. While some residents of Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}