Naw I lived in the Bronx for 14 years....not one bed bug.
I had them when I first moved in.
Then I decided that it was them or me, and I eradicated them. It wasn’t easy, though.
I still have the pencil-post bed I built, expecially for that apartment. Each of the legs comes down to a point, about 1” in diameter, and each leg sat in a little dish, where I put the boric acid powder. I used the same stuff to great behind the quarter-round moldings on the baseboards and around all of the light switches, electrical outlets and plumbing escutcheons.
Then I cleaned every surface of that apartment with hot soapy water treated with bleach, got rid of my trashy carpeting, furniture, bedding and everything, sealed the floors, painted the walls, and brought in new furniture and bedding.
I never had bedbugs again. But getting rid of them that first time was a major undertaking! And I checked that mattress each week when I washed the sheets, to make sure they stayed gone.