By Maurin Picard
Published yesterday at 5:16 p.m., Updated yesterday at 5:16 p.m.
The law is very strict with New Yorkers who sell or rent their homes. SeanPavonePhoto / stock.adobe.com
NARRATIVE – Thanks to very strict measures, New York has taken residents’ fear very seriously.
At New York
New York knows a thing or two about pest invasions, fictitious or real. On the big screen, gorillas, aliens, giant ants, zombies and even Godzilla frequently attack the slender towers of Midtown, the Brooklyn Bridge, even the Statue of Liberty. In daily life, New Yorkers, exemplary of resilience, have learned to live with all kinds of rampant scourges: rats, so present in the streets and between the subway tracks that users no longer pay much attention to them, cockroaches, but also raccoons and skunks, which are proliferating in cities thanks to global warming and their exponential reproduction.
Nothing compares, however, to New Yorkers’ worst fear: bedbugs, or bed bugs. Although they had always proliferated in hotel corridors and bad neighborhoods, the phenomenon had gradually disappeared at the end of the 1950s, with the intensive use of powerful insecticides…
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