Bedbugs on the Upper East Side

â??Rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown is a line from Shattered, the Rolling Stones ode to New York. Who knew that Mick and the boys would be so prescient though? This week"s New York Magazine has a long form [masterpiece] about an invasion of things that go creepy crawly in the dark on the Upper East Side. The piece focuses on one all American well-heeled family battling the good fight against an infestation of the tiny bloodsuckers in their tony Upper East Side Apartment and the growing epidemic of bedbugs in the Upper East Side and the city as a whole. It just goes to prove that even those with money aren"t immune to the bloodlust of the tiny vampire cockroaches. Read the complete itchy tale [here].