Photo from Harvard University.
There could be bedbugs on subway benches. That's what an official from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development told a community group in Brooklyn earlier this week. The HPD official told listeners that he had seen bedbugs on wooden subway benches at three locations in the transit system: Hoyt-Schermerhorn in Brooklyn, Union Square in Manhattan, and Fordham Road in the Bronx.
The Daily News and Post report that HPD cautioned that the official is neither a trained inspector nor an entomologist. But he does know bedbugs, since that was the subject of his talk.
Transit officials say they are looking into the claim.
