Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 79 Location: St. Johns and Underhill
Sun Aug 10, 08 7:08 pm EST
On our way back from upstate today, we heard a new episode of This American Life on NPR, and they interviewed someone at 349 St. Johns Pl. about the bedbug issue in that building.
Is that building this notorious? Will it bring due (but unwanted, at least by the owners) attention to it?
damn thats a crazy 1. i hate that i live right around the corner from that bldg _________________ hello.thank you.good bye.
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Niner Regular
Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 79 Location: St. Johns and Underhill
Sun Aug 10, 08 7:59 pm EST
supreme_ian wrote:
damn thats a crazy 1. i hate that i live right around the corner from that bldg
I hate that we live across the street from it.
supreme_ian "Anonymous Guest"
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Sun Aug 10, 08 8:04 pm EST
yeah thats even worse. i feel so sorry for you . i should buy you a drink and a raid bomb ! _________________ hello.thank you.good bye.
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Why are they still living there?! Get out! Stop paying rent and move!
If my kid was getting bitten, I would have done anything to get the F*ck out of there.
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Niner Regular
Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 79 Location: St. Johns and Underhill
Sun Aug 10, 08 10:52 pm EST
From what I hear around the neighborhood is the issue seems to be affordability. Most of the people in that building have been there for a while, or are older and on a fixed income, and simply cant afford to move.
kat283 Newbie
Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 8
Sun Aug 10, 08 11:06 pm EST
As someone who is a resident of the building in discussion, telling me what I should and shouldn't do to rectify the situation makes me feel talked down to. Trust me, we have and are taking every step we can to solve the problem but the legal and housing systems are stacked against us.
And yes, many of us cannot move because we're not privileged with trust funds nor do we work on Wall Street.
Hopefully the NPR story will have some effect but I remain doubtful.
Oh and just to give ya'll a bit of amusement since you seem to hate the slumlord issue as much as I do, someone went up to the roof and stole all the tools that were up there being used to construct the new house-of-cards apartments so we've been living noise pollution free for a few weeks.
RBG Local
Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 286
Sun Aug 10, 08 11:06 pm EST
for some strange reason, I am unable to hear the broadcast...
Niner Regular
Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 79 Location: St. Johns and Underhill
Mon Aug 11, 08 8:37 am EST
@ kat283,
Sorry to hear you're stuck in that place. Hopefully the episode will bring some much needed attention to the issue in that building. I also sent the episode to a few other sites that get more traffic than this board, in hopes it'll get picked-up for a wider audience.
As someone who is a resident of the building in discussion, telling me what I should and shouldn't do to rectify the situation makes me feel talked down to. Trust me, we have and are taking every step we can to solve the problem but the legal and housing systems are stacked against us.
And yes, many of us cannot move because we're not privileged with trust funds nor do we work on Wall Street.
Hopefully the NPR story will have some effect but I remain doubtful.
Oh and just to give ya'll a bit of amusement since you seem to hate the slumlord issue as much as I do, someone went up to the roof and stole all the tools that were up there being used to construct the new house-of-cards apartments so we've been living noise pollution free for a few weeks.
I did not mean to talk down to the people 349 St. Johns Pl.
We had Bed Bugs for 6 months in our building and I have sympathy
for people living with the problem. It Crippled us financially and put a lot of
stress on our marriage.
Can't you guys go on a rent strike? The whole building? Call Letita James
Office? NY1? Post? Times?
How is stealing construction tools going to help your building? The contractors are going to put pressure on the slumlord, who's going to still stick it too the residents of the building. The amount on building violations
on the NEW top floor is a disaster waiting to happen. Has anyone noticed that the scaffolding in front is twisting and looks like will come down on its own?
P.s Wish I had a trust fund and people who work on Wall Street are scum.
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Drano Meow Wars Veteran
Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1579
Mon Aug 11, 08 9:24 am EST
GOD wrote:
people who work on Wall Street are scum.
Damn, in that case I'm glad we moved our office to Madison Avenue.
Sorry to hear about those bed bugz.
siren Newbie
Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 22
Mon Aug 11, 08 9:44 am EST
That's shocking. I wonder if the buildings nearby are now especially susceptible.
Its becoming such an epidemic, its making a lot of people I know wary about having guests over, or subletting their apts etc.
And landlords basically deny it or say its your fault.
I'm sure there are other buildings in the neighborhood overrun too, and we just dont know.
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vanilla Carneviento Devotee
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Mon Aug 11, 08 10:02 am EST
GOD wrote:
Why are they still living there?! Get out! Stop paying rent and move!
If my kid was getting bitten, I would have done anything to get the F*ck out of there.
yes! and marjorie thompson is still showing those apt.s to rent & of course charging a broker's fee!
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filmlover44 Funk Soul Sister
Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Posts: 1185 Location: No Man's/Woman's Land
Mon Aug 11, 08 11:15 am EST
kat283 wrote:
As someone who is a resident of the building in discussion, telling me what I should and shouldn't do to rectify the situation makes me feel talked down to. Trust me, we have and are taking every step we can to solve the problem but the legal and housing systems are stacked against us.
And yes, many of us cannot move because we're not privileged with trust funds nor do we work on Wall Street.
Hopefully the NPR story will have some effect but I remain doubtful.
Oh and just to give ya'll a bit of amusement since you seem to hate the slumlord issue as much as I do, someone went up to the roof and stole all the tools that were up there being used to construct the new house-of-cards apartments so we've been living noise pollution free for a few weeks.
You made This American Life. People all over the world listen to that show! I get the podcast but I haven't heard it yet. Is Ms. Thompson's name mentioned in the piece? _________________ Ok, now I'm crazy. Another goal achieved.
I listened to it this morning. Marjorie Thompson isn't mentioned.
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Mon Aug 11, 08 12:03 pm EST
Thank you for having the courage to do what I couldn't. Whoever named the Real Estate agent is right on point....
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Mon Aug 11, 08 12:38 pm EST
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RBG Local
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Mon Aug 11, 08 12:44 pm EST
Hi Ms. Moderator:
I have a feeling she got the tip from my post. If you Google 349 St. Johns place, you'll see that a few bloggers picked up on the post...I love breaking news...
vanilla Carneviento Devotee
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Mon Aug 11, 08 12:55 pm EST
apollonia666 wrote:
I listened to it this morning. Marjorie Thompson isn't mentioned.
my friends lived in that building and their friends still live there and know for a fact that marjorie thompson was showing apt.'s in this building - yes, right around the time of the mattresses being out there.
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Mon Aug 11, 08 3:50 pm EST
Yeah my ex had a bed bug issue, she was freaking out, i had bites all over!! _________________ The life that has borne me me through these years is still in my hands and in my eyes. Wether i have subdued it, i know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me. Erich Maria Remarque
[sarcasm]Gawd, all you whiners whining about bedbugs! This is BROOKLYN! If you can't handle a few bedbugs then you should just go back to Ohio or wherever, you bunch of crybabies![/sarcasm]
filmlover44 Funk Soul Sister
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Mon Aug 11, 08 4:17 pm EST
So, we all agree that in this case, the broker does know!
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Mon Aug 11, 08 7:00 pm EST
Niner wrote:
On our way back from upstate today, we heard a new episode of This American Life on NPR, and they interviewed someone at 349 St. Johns Pl. about the bedbug issue in that building.
Is that building this notorious? Will it bring due (but unwanted, at least by the owners) attention to it?
omg that's the story my g'friend told me not to listen to, because it was too squuueeegy.
Love the one later in the show about the guy who can't sleep . . .
Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 107 Location: washington and st marks
Tue Aug 12, 08 12:02 am EST
Can't they just fumigate the entire building? I understand everyone would have to evacuate for 12-24 hours or whatever it is but than you can go back to you life bedbug free. Failing that you could probably just do your own apartment and most likely take care of the problem, however I would think doing the entire building would really insure they are gone and not coming back (at least for awhile).
jocelyn Regular
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Tue Aug 12, 08 11:53 pm EST
brooklynlager that's not how it works.
i pray that you never get them.
brooklynm456 Newbie
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Tue Aug 12, 08 11:59 pm EST
Last month we moved into this building, and the first night, realized there was a terrible bedbug infestation. We moved out two days later.
The broker is an old woman who claimed she had no idea there were bedbugs, and appeared to barely even know what a bedbug was.
The manager, however, said we could leave and get all our money back the minute we mentioned bedbugs, with no argument whatsoever. He knew exactly what was going on.
What clued me in to the situation was that the space where the floor and walls meet had recently been plugged with new molding. when i looked closer i noticed bedbug poop, and dead bedbugs everywhere.
When we were moving out, every neighbor we met said they had bebugs, and that the management was doing nothing about it. Someone even told us they had exposed lead in their apartment, and they had a young child.
We were very, very fortunate to get out with a full refund, but it was still a terrible experience.
brooklynlager Regular
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Wed Aug 13, 08 12:04 am EST
jocelyn wrote:
brooklynlager that's not how it works.
i pray that you never get them.
so how do you get rid of them? i have never had them, mice, roaches, flies, gnats, never bedbugs, fill me in, there must be a solution in this modern time with all are fancy chemicals and interwebs.
is that you trying to blame your bugs on my building!?
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Wed Aug 13, 08 3:31 pm EST
brooklynlager wrote:
jocelyn wrote:
brooklynlager that's not how it works.
i pray that you never get them.
so how do you get rid of them? i have never had them, mice, roaches, flies, gnats, never bedbugs, fill me in, there must be a solution in this modern time with all are fancy chemicals and interwebs.
You have vaccuum everything first, to get up the nymphs and eggs. Remove everything fabric and pourous form the aprartment (closthes, drapes, etc.) in sealed plastic bags. Then wash that shit in hot hot water and then dry on high heat.
While you have everything out of the apartment, you have to have an extemrinator use sevral types of insecticide, including spray, injections of powder into the walls (they have to drill holes) and behind moldings. When they did my old apartment they used so much there were actually pools of insecticide on the floor.
Then you put everything back and pray a couple days later (you have to sleep somewhere else for a couple nights).
Usually you have to repat the above at least twice.
TOTAL EFFIN NIGHTMARE.
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Wed Aug 13, 08 5:04 pm EST
Shudder. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. I had to deal with the bastards last fall and I swear I still have nightmares. I had all my clothes washed and dried in a "clean" room, was sleeping on an aerobed in a pristine bedroom with all the lights on and a bottle of spray alcohol in hand and I still got bit- HUGE ithcy welts that even my doctor wouldn't touch-- I mean BRIGHT RED RAISED almost half an inch welts ALL OVER. Suicide seemed the only answer. No joke I pray none of you ever have to deal with it.
As far as I know, they still live in that evil place. Luckily, I do not.
Shudder. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. I had to deal with the bastards last fall and I swear I still have nightmares. I had all my clothes washed and dried in a "clean" room, was sleeping on an aerobed in a pristine bedroom with all the lights on and a bottle of spray alcohol in hand and I still got bit- HUGE ithcy welts that even my doctor wouldn't touch-- I mean BRIGHT RED RAISED almost half an inch welts ALL OVER. Suicide seemed the only answer. No joke I pray none of you ever have to deal with it.
As far as I know, they still live in that evil place. Luckily, I do not.
Makes you wish that you had roaches. The Devil is a bed bug.
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sweet tea Cooler Ham
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Wed Aug 13, 08 8:34 pm EST
my name is bedbug, for we are many.
it's in the bible. _________________ Bumping ancient threads with bot-like bullshit
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Wed Aug 13, 08 9:06 pm EST
bedbug has a devil set aside for meee...for Meee....for MEEEEEEE~!
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shekb Newbie
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Thu Aug 14, 08 5:27 pm EST
There's another, easier way to get rid of bedbugs...I know someone who used a poisonous sulphur candle and it worked really well.
It's illegal in the US, but it can be ordered from overseas. The exterminator my acquaintance employed - the guy came three times and couldn't get rid of the bugs - admitted that he would've used the candle if it were allowed.
arches Bruce Ratner's Love Child
Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 745 Location: Sterling & Underhill
Thu Aug 14, 08 6:44 pm EST
You could also make your own sulphur candle from beeswax and sulphur, apparently.
Seems to be an old-school treatment for killing mold/bugs/etc in greenhouses. Obviously a greenhouse is fall less likely to burn down with an unattended candle burning than your apartment would be.
Burning the candle produces sulphur dioxide, which is apparently toxic to humans in large quantities (and an eye/skin irritant in small qualities), but finds its way into cracks and crevices to kill the bugs. Sulphur dioxide is used in small quanitites in red wine and dried fruit as a preservative (as in "contains sulphites").
sweet tea Cooler Ham
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Thu Aug 14, 08 6:57 pm EST
i think it's not so super-awesome for lungs, either. _________________ Bumping ancient threads with bot-like bullshit
arches Bruce Ratner's Love Child
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Thu Aug 14, 08 7:29 pm EST
sweet tea wrote:
i think it's not so super-awesome for lungs, either.
Right. It forms sulphuric acid in contact with water vapor in your lungs. Sulphuric acid + lungs = bad.
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Thu Aug 14, 08 9:47 pm EST
kat283 wrote:
someone went up to the roof and stole all the tools that were up there being used to construct the new house-of-cards apartments so we've been living noise pollution free for a few weeks.
very stupid and jackassie for doing it. what if the roof goes etc.... people will get hurt. _________________ Fight white guilt and injustice by going to a Native American casino and gamble your money away.
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someone went up to the roof and stole all the tools that were up there being used to construct the new house-of-cards apartments so we've been living noise pollution free for a few weeks.
very stupid and jackassie for doing it. what if the roof goes etc.... people will get hurt.
Hey Armchair, I talked about this as being the wrong way to fight against the
Problems with the building. But kat283 seems to have dropped off the topic. Stealing's NOT the answer. The builders are NOT the problem, the
Landlord is.
What is the purpose of adding another floor, when the lower ones are infested with Bedbugs? I guess when the penthouse gets them, they'll add another floor.
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