Bedbugs At The Pavilion?
Does the Pavilion, the thoroughly-unmodernized multiplex at 188 Prospect Park West have bedbugs? According to a report on The Bedbug Registry, it does. “A few days ago I was leaving the Theatre with my girlfriend at around 11:55 pm when I saw a bunch of men with large crates and hoses in the lobby, I…
Does the Pavilion, the thoroughly-unmodernized multiplex at 188 Prospect Park West have bedbugs? According to a report on The Bedbug Registry, it does. “A few days ago I was leaving the Theatre with my girlfriend at around 11:55 pm when I saw a bunch of men with large crates and hoses in the lobby, I asked what was going on and he said that Bed Bugs had been found in all of the older theatres with the Purple seats,” goes a posting on the site from Saturday. “Then I was at the Windsor Cafe Yesterday when I overheard some people saying that even more Bed Begs were found on the first floor of the building.” Yikes!
Photo by Stijn Nieuwendijk
Look at the history of neighborhood theaters going way back. Is there any other reason why many of them were called “The Itch”????
Sadly, I have to agree with Brenda.
Plus, Center/North PS needs its own theater. Pavilion is practically in Windsor Terrace.
I’ve been going all the way to Cobble Hill for a decent experience.
Pavilion manager responds on City Room. We report, you decide: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/pests-and-nuisances-galore/
What no one has mentioned is that the Pavilion is a pitifully mismanaged dump with or without bedbugs! Filthy seats, grotty bathrooms, and the dreaded suffocating “attic” theatre…not to mention the sad failure to make a go of their mezzanine cafe, which was atrocious and now appears to be mercifully closed. We had such hopes for the place when it reopened…
exactly ENY. The cost of one bedbug extermination will pay for a helluva home theater!
Who goes to the movies anyway?
Have to comment, having survived a BB infestation a couple of years ago:
Bedbugs don’t always bite in a pattern. When they do that, it’s because their feeding was disturbed somehow (like you moved your leg or something).
And, shaking out your clothes won’t necessarily get rid of them. If you *really* want to avoid bringing BB’s home, the best prevention is to immediately put the clothes you were wearing either in the dryer on high heat for 60 minutes (it’s the dryer that will kill them, NOT the wash), or put them in a sealed ziploc bag (the large kind) until you can put them in the dryer! Shoes and bags can be inspected closely and sprayed with either alcohol or “Klean-Free”, although this will only kill live bugs, not eggs.
I don’t wish BB’s on anyone. It’s such a nightmare, literally!
While you can see adult BB’s, the nymphs are so small and transparent that you cannot easily see them with the naked eye.
This isn’t just “old news”. The reports before were vague suspicions small bites were from termites; this is somebody actually talking to exterminators who are treating the theater and getting details. People would be much more likely to take this report seriously than the past ones. I for one am really grateful Brownstoner posted it.
This board has its own infestation. Hope they fumigate soon.