RATS ON THE WESTSIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN IN THE OUTER BOROUGHS: More than 10% of New Yorkers report bedbugs. “According to the poll, New Yorkers making less than $50,000 a year were twice as likely to have bedbugs as those with higher incomes, and 10% of respondents in Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn reported bedbugs, as did 8% of Bronx residents. But just 3% of respondents in Manhattan were afflicted.”