NYC Getting Sloppy?

[clubBR]

Was walking to Midtown (Herald Square to 52nd & 8th Ave.) and noticed huge roaches crawling around on the sidewalks. Anyone see this?

[nycla3]

Roaches? In New York City? In August? Big ones? Nope...never.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Anyone see this?I was there on Saturday, but I think the roaches I saw were totally different.

Maybe if you described them?

[clubBR]

I was there on Saturday, but I think the roaches I saw were totally different.

Maybe if you described them?

Well, they weren't the traditional roaches. They were the size of thumbs and looked "lighter" (less heavy). Light brown with longer antennaes. It was dark and I was under the influence. But I'm sure I saw them.
In 3 different locations. Coincidentally, all were in front of corner banks (Citi, Woori, and a WaMu)

[ZippyTheChimp]

Police have released a sketch of one of the perpetrators.

http://www.cals.vt.edu/news/pubs/connections/fall06/images/American_Cockroach-web_000.jpg

Commissioner Kelly said he may be a member of a new gang.

[MikeW]

Roaches? Fuggedaboudit. Rats, on the other hand...

I was hanging out on the lawn in the Hudson River Park, up by the north end (10th Street-ish). All of a sudden she says "I'm going to pretend that that is a squirrel." I look over my shoulder, and rooting around in the grass 20 yards away is the biggest rat I've ever seen. Really, this thing was a foot long, NOT including the tail. We moved on.

[OmegaNYC]

I see roaches all the time in Midtown. They're called "tourist" by the locals...

[OmegaNYC]

Roaches? Fuggedaboudit. Rats, on the other hand...

I was hanging out on the lawn in the Hudson River Park, up by the north end (10th Street-ish). All of a sudden she says "I'm going to pretend that that is a squirrel." I look over my shoulder, and rooting around in the grass 20 yards away is the biggest rat I've ever seen. Really, this thing was a foot long, NOT including the tail. We moved on.

could of been a musk rat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_rat) You seem 'em in the Passaic River.

[tdp]

I see roaches all the time in Midtown. They're called "tourist" by the locals...

Hey...!!!!
That's uncalled for!

[OmegaNYC]

^^^ well, to be fair, they're all over the place. Especially, during the holidays. :cool:

[Ninjahedge]

^^^ well, to be fair, they're all over the place. Especially, during the holidays. :cool:

Tourists or roaches?

[ebrigham]

nyc is definitely getting sloppier. 3.42% sloppier on a YoY basis to be exact

[NoyokA]

Was walking to Midtown (Herald Square to 52nd & 8th Ave.) and noticed huge roaches crawling around on the sidewalks. Anyone see this?

Don't tell me this is the first time you've seen a cock-roach in NYC. I see them almost every night, and I still go out of my way to step on them. As far as a real cockroach story, I've had a cockroach climb up my leg while taking a shower, worse I served a customer who had a cockroach fall into their drink from the ceiling. The best still is watching a rat scurry on by while on a romantic date.

[clubBR]

Don't tell me this is the first time you've seen a cock-roach in NYC.

I dont think being around roaches is something to boast about

[NYatKNIGHT]

Was anyone boasting?

ClubBR, seriously, you've never seen a cockroach in the city before? It's certainly nothing new, they've been a problem here for 400 years. Make no mistake, they never fail to skeeve, especially those giant ones.

[NoyokA]

I dont think being around roaches is something to boast about

When the cockroach climbed up my leg in the shower it was at a not too cheap studio in the Upper East Side. I keep my stuff very clean. I can guarantee you I was not boasting to the management company. When I said I go out of my way every night to kill a cockroach I should specify that I'm fortunate not to have any cockroaches in my apt. right now, but when I go out I always see them scurrying about. All I'm trying to convey is how very common cock-roaches are and that's not just here its the case in every large city.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Don't tell me this is the first time you've seen a cock-roach in NYC.Worst I've ever experienced:

July 1977. I worked 4PM-midnight at the AT&T building on Church & Thomas. At that time, the ugly Tribeca tower across the street was a parking lot (free at night). Next door (now part of the tower) was a low rise vacant building.

My commute car was a Fiat 124 Spider. I parked in the lot facing the wall of the vacant building.

Later that evening, after a series of events, Con Ed lost Ravenswood, and the city went dark. Inside the AT&T building, we only had a blip, as backup batteries and standby deisel generators, restored power. We even had AC on a hot July night.

The area was pitch black when I and a coworker left at midnight. Although my building had power, it had no windows, and the only light was a glow from the lobby.

Before we got in, we pulled down the roadster's top. I started it up, and flipped on the lights (including two halogen driving lamps). A few hundred thousand foot-candles illuminated the white wall of the vacant building. About a zillion roaches and assorted vermin, suddenly exposed, began scurrying radially from the light source. It was unbelievable, like the scarabs in The Mummy.

My co-worker, who I found out that night, hated bugs, leapt out of the car, and began doing a break dance with yells of "Jesus Christ!" I continued backing up the car out of the lot, then got a flashlight and towel out of the trunk, and searched for and whacked any stragglers.

I don't mind bugs (except maybe spiders,which I find both fascinating and creepy), but I didn't want something crawling all over me while on the Brooklyn Bridge.

[OmegaNYC]

Interesting story!

But I don't know what is worst.

Billions of bugs.

Or driving this:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Fiat_124_sp_v_sst.jpg/250px-Fiat_124_sp_v_sst.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

You don't know what you're talking about.

[NewYorkDoc]

Is that what your car looked like zippy?

[ZippyTheChimp]

Dark green

[OmegaNYC]

You don't know what you're talking about.


Geez, it took someone that long to figure that out?? :cool:

But seriously. That many bugs? That would of freak me the hell out.

[ZippyTheChimp]

But seriously. That many bugs? That would of freak me the hell out.Zillion is an indeterminate number.