Bedbugs On New York City's Subways

By PATRICK GALLAHUE, JOHN MAZOR and SYLVIA HARVEY
May 8, 2008

Don't let the bedbugs swipe!

The blood-sucking insects aren't just living with New Yorkers at home - they're on the subways, too, according to one of the city's leading bedbug authorities.

At a recent Department of Housing, Preservation and Development forum on the subject, a city bedbug educator admitted to seeing the pests on benches in subway stations - in one case, catching a ride on an unsuspecting straphanger's caboose at Brooklyn's Hoyt-Schermerhorn station, according to people at the meeting. the rest