Attack of the Bedbugs!

Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  11.28.05 | 12:36 PM ET

Bedbugs are “spreading through New York like a swarm of locusts on a lush field of wheat,” according to Sunday’s New York Times, and one exterminator told the paper, “Some of the best hotels in New York have them.” The rise of affordable global travel, among other factors, is being blamed for the pests’ resurgence.

Reports the newspaper:

They’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.



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