East and West Side Bedbugs Are Not the Same; Staten Island Chuck Says Spring Is Coming

• Weill Cornell scientists have mapped genetic differences in NYC’s bedbug population. They’ll use their findings to create more effective insecticides. [Crain’s]
• Peter Ruta is turning 98 this month. But the oldest living painter in Westbeth is still not getting his due. [Tablet]
• Thought last night’s 6 train commute was hell? Check out these pictures of 100,000 people stranded at a Chinese train station. [Mashable]
• Staten Island Chuck predicts we’ll have an early spring. Check out photos from this morning’s Groundhog Day event. [Gothamist]
• Tour novelist Kurt Andersen’s “pleasingly cluttered” Brooklyn home office. [NYT]

Staten Island Chuck via Chief Thomas M. Chan/Twitter