BrickUnderground

A few weeks ago I noticed mattresses leaning outside some of the brownstones on my block. Luckily they were heading away from my building, not toward it. 

Taken alone, a random discarded mattress is no more an...

When you see those damn bugs crawling across your mattress (in my case), or wherever and however you find them, your immediate reaction is to recoil in horror. Barely able to absorb the supreme yuckiness of the...

Summer’s a’coming and with it higher temperatures and prime bed bug reproduction weather, some experts say. 

To wit: Eggs hatch in seven to 14 days in the cold, but six to 10 days during warmer...

A few weeks ago I wrote about how having bed bugs changed my life. That was the external stuff. But...

I have never been much of a dater, preferring to meet people during the course of my various activities and travels, of which there are many. I’m not averse to trolling online dating sites, when I am ready to become more...

It is said that having bed bugs changes a person. I guess one could say that about me, given that I think about them pretty regularly—even two apartments and nearly three years after it all started.

Though writing about...

Those of us who follow bed bug news noted the recent discovery of bed bugs at the Ritz-Carlton...

Well I did end up moving after all, and on New Year’s Eve, to boot. And, despite all my exhortations on...

The apartment looked dreamy: a three-bedroom, two-bath penthouse in a historic...