A Fordham student's senior year allegedly got off to a nightmarish start when she found that her new dormmates were bedbugs.
Michelle Hopkins filed a suit yesterday after the insects allegedly feasted on her in the Manhattan hotel that doubled as her dorm.
"I can't sleep anymore, I haven't slept in forever," Hopkins said, breaking into tears in her lawyer's office. "I'm petrified."
A student housing crunch at Fordham led Hopkins to find a room through Educational Housing Services, which leases four floors of rooms from the New Yorker Hotel at Eighth Ave. and 34th St.
Today, Fordham is scheduled to move Hopkins into campus housing, said her lawyer Alan Schnurman. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, targets Educational Housing Services and the hotel, along with its owner, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
The president of Educational Housing Services described Hopkins' encounter as an "isolated incident."
"We immediately removed her to another room," said George Scott. "We removed all of her clothing and had it dry cleaned."
Kevin Smith, general manager for the New Yorker, which is undergoing a massive renovation, said there had been no bedbug complaints in the hotel.