AUG + Steel wool + Sidewalks + Volunteer

Where do roaches and water bugs (Nepomorpha) come from?
Roaches and water bugs are a fact of life for apartment house living in all major cities. They live in basements, walls, ducts, pipes, etc. It is estimated that 14,278,902,335,817 live in New York City. This does not include water bugs, bedbugs and other creepy crawly critters.
How do they get into your apartment?
They come in via pipes, drains, electric conduits, under your door, on your shoes, shopping bags and anyway they can.
If your apartment is kept clean and you have Bugman (WTI’s free exterminator) visit at least once a month and you don’t have a dirty, smelly neighbor, your apartment should be mostly roach and waterbug free. But …. They will get in.
During hot weather, roaches and water bugs like to come out of the basement and other hiding places. . And your apartment has secret entrances for them. See the pictures.

What can you do? Stuff steel wool into any spaces where pipes, drains or ducts enter your apartment. Be careful when you go to the compacter (garbage) chute. If dirty people on your floor leave garbage, tell management and tell them they are inconsiderate bad people. CALL BUGMAN!

Sidewalks
The sidewalks in front of our buildings are part of our homes. The porters employed by WTI do a pretty good job of cleaning the sidewalks each day. Sadly, some people drop cigarette butts or trash. These are people who don’t know better or are simply inconsiderate slobs. If you see this happen, ask them to pick up their litter, call the WTI Office and yell SLOB.

Also …. Most residents don’t urinate on the sidewalks. They know better. Dogs don’t know better. Any dog owner that allows their dog to urinate on the sidewalk is a bad person and doing something illegal. Perhaps, the dog owners enjoy walking on urine? NYC has “pooper-scooper” and “curb” laws.
Tell the dog owners “curb” their dog, call the WTI Office or go to their apartment and pee on their floors.

Bears
There have been a number of bear attacks recently. A woman in Montana and and one in New Jersey was killed and several people have had their arms, legs and heads munched on. There have been no reports of any attacks at WTI.

Bears are attracted by garbage and we have a lot of garbage.
If you do encounter a bear, experts advise climb a tree, bang pots together to make noise, lay down and “play dead” or call the WTI Office.

Volunteers
The Board of Directors and Management of WTI need volunteers for the Screening, Communications and Budget Committees. If you have ideas on how to make WTI better, or can help, please call the WTI Office. (718) 897-5000.

Contact ... wti9810@gmail.com