The image of this street couch, which comes from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, was passed along to us by our Greenpoint correspondent. It also came with some dialog:

Miss H: That sure is a nice couch.
Man: Yeah.
Miss H: I wouldn’t take that home if I were you, it might have bedbugs.
Man: Really? Can they get in the folds of leather upholstery.
Miss H: You bet, they can get into just about anything. What’s more, there is a very serious bedbug problem here. Don’t take it.
Man: Yeah, one time my friends and I thought we were stealing a couch. We got it home and well…
Miss H: Bedbugs?
Man: Yeah. That’s what you get when you ban DDT.

It has certainly been a while since we thought about DDT.