Bedbugs At The Pavilion?
Does the Pavilion, the thoroughly-unmodernized multiplex at 188 Prospect Park West have bedbugs? According to a report on The Bedbug Registry, it does. “A few days ago I was leaving the Theatre with my girlfriend at around 11:55 pm when I saw a bunch of men with large crates and hoses in the lobby, I…
Does the Pavilion, the thoroughly-unmodernized multiplex at 188 Prospect Park West have bedbugs? According to a report on The Bedbug Registry, it does. “A few days ago I was leaving the Theatre with my girlfriend at around 11:55 pm when I saw a bunch of men with large crates and hoses in the lobby, I asked what was going on and he said that Bed Bugs had been found in all of the older theatres with the Purple seats,” goes a posting on the site from Saturday. “Then I was at the Windsor Cafe Yesterday when I overheard some people saying that even more Bed Begs were found on the first floor of the building.” Yikes!
Photo by Stijn Nieuwendijk
“Wonder if the mayor can coordinate some kind of response. ”
Hah – Bloomberg? He’ll probably use this as an opportunity to raise more money and put a bed bug tax on everything.
And now Victoria’s Secret has them in addition to Abercromie. They’re everywhere. Wonder if the mayor can coordinate some kind of response.
i totally read couch as crotch
*rob*
DIBS —
I had a few bedbugs… using the word “infestation” is not appropriate. They were (strangely) just in my couch. I was never bitten and they never didn’t make it past my couch before certain death was brought down upon them and their souls were sent to insect hell. Very lazy bugs.
(And I lucked out.)
I heard on the recent Channel 4 series on bedbugs that about 35% of the population will not actually experience bed bug bites even if there’s an infestation. And yes, they bite in a pattern, like fleas.
“if you are out and about with someone coming from a known bedbug hotspot, check each other for bedbugs”
This works especially well on first dates. Helps break the ice.
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Rob, have you dealt with bedbugs before? Actually seen them?
yeah. when i lived on the LES i had a friend who lived in the east village who’s apartment was INFESTED with them, but he didnt know. and i used to hang out there a lot. i slept over in the living room one night and YEP i was bitten. some people are allergic to their bites, meaning they itch and you will scratch the bites and they get worse.. some people are not allergic at all and get bitten and not even know it or think about it, sometimes just thinking they are mosquito bites or spider bites..
he thought he could get rid of them by fogging the place and bleaching the walls. he took down some wooden bed bunker type thing and behind the wood were a whole bunch of them. i started smashing them and BLOOD SQUIRTED ALL over the walls.
i totally freaked and never went back there again. i lucked out and didnt carry any over to my apartment at the time. so yeah i have first hand knowledge of just how gross they are.
this person also used to bring fabrics and old clothes to work on from all over the country, so it’s pretty obvious that’s probably where it came from. im convinced tho almost all those old gross tenements on the lower east side and east village are infested.
*rob*
No, they bite wherever they’d like to bit you… but they like to feed in a pattern. “Breakfast, lunch, dinner.” They bite and feed, stop, move a little, bite and feed. So, you get a triple bite pattern.
Also, if you’re not allergic (or react) to their nibble, the bit could be almost imperceptible. Others swell up and get all red around the bite.
yeah – this thread is making me itchy. lata