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After City Council member Simcha Felder announced he would propose legislation to ban feeding pigeons, bird lovers joined forces and, yesterday, held a rally at City Hall. Armed with posters like "Save Our Right to Feed Wildlife," "Have U Known Anybody Killed by a Pigeon?", "Pigeons are Beautiful Birds," and "Felder's Pigeon Bill is Poop!", the pro-pigeon protesters spoke out for their feathered friends. One demonstrator told City Room, "We are voices for the...

Bedbug paranoia is reaching a fever pitch in the city, with news outlets finding a variety of ways to cover the gross little pests to make us feel itchy. Now City Council member Gail Brewer will reintroduce a bill that will ban the sale of "reconditioned" mattresses and make sure new mattresses aren't tainted by old ones as well. Brewer has been brewing (we couldn't help it) this since last May, but the sound and fury of New Yorker's cries - and stats like 2 bedbug complaints in 2002, 16 in 2003 to 449 complaints during a five month period last year - are making the bedbug enemy number one - perhaps even after the nasty roach. Brewer wants to create a "bedbud task force" and Gothamist wonders if there is a Rat Academy, shoudln't there be Insect Prep?

We got this fortune at The Nice Restaurant down on East Broadway on Friday night. But shouldn't the lucky numbers be something more like 18006969696? [Related: New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on Wonton Food, and a Fortune Teller Fish from The Mermaid Inn.]

Zach Levy, Playing Card Publisher