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Online 'Roach Map' Lets Users Track City's Pests

By DNAinfo Staff on November 10, 2010 1:50pm  | Updated on November 10, 2010 1:52pm

The New York City Roach Map provides a regularly updated map of reported cockroach sightings throughout the city.
The New York City Roach Map provides a regularly updated map of reported cockroach sightings throughout the city.
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By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Pest-conscious diners can now receive monthly updates on the movements of the city's cockroach population.

The New York City Roach Map, which includes a monthly e-newsletter option, was created last weekend to track cockroach sightings in city restaurants and is already sending heebie-jeebie shock waves throughout the Internet.

Using health inspection data provided by the city, the map identifies the Financial District, Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights as the Manhattan's current cockroach hotbeds.

The map was created by a group of journalists and web developers during a two-day, all-night work session called The Great Urban Hack NYC 2010. Click here to learn about more New York-based web tools created during the event — including an app that turns the city's streets into a giant game of Pac-Man.