http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/27bugs.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5088&en=f7f15575aed107ab&ex=1290747600&partner=rssnyt&emc=rssJust Try to Sleep Tight. The Bedbugs Are BackThey're the scourge of hobo encampments and hot-sheet motels. To impressionable children everywhere, they're a snippet of nursery rhyme, an abstract foe lurking beneath the covers that emerges when mommy shuts the door at night.
But bedbugs on Park Avenue? Ask the horrified matron who recently found her duplex teeming with the blood-sucking beasts. Or the tenants of a co-op on Riverside Drive who spent $200,000 earlier this month to purge their building of the pesky little thugs. The Helmsley Park Lane was sued two years ago by a welt-covered guest who blamed the hotel for harboring the critters. The suit was quietly settled last year.
And bedbugs, stealthy and fast-moving nocturnal creatures that were all but eradicated by DDT after World War II, have recently been found in hospital maternity wards, private schools and even a plastic surgeon's waiting room.
Bedbugs are back and spreading through New York City like a swarm of locusts on a lush field of wheat.
Infestations have been reported sporadically across the United States over the past few years. But in New York, bedbugs have gained a foothold all across the city.I swear I woke up twice checking to see if those critters were in my fricking bedroom (no sign of em) but I read that article yesterday and it creeped me out all night long just thinking about em
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