OK, it was only 10:47 PM… but on a Sunday! What could possibly be so important?

Next time, we will stop in and ask.

Or at least make some color copies for only 65 cents apiece.

Over on 9flights, Susan asks whether chickens are the new rats in Prospect Heights: “A few nights ago, it was pleasant enough to sleep with the windows open … Sometime in the middle of the night I was awoken by a ruckus that sounded strangely like chickens. This evening, as Matt was out watering the plants on the fire escape, he heard someone next door open her window and yell out, ‘Get outta my yard you stupid chicken!’ We looked around, and sure enough–Chicken!”

Should you be concerned? One poultry sighting is surely an anomaly. But two is a trend, and three is prima facie evidence of a poultry crisis.

LINK: Chickens: The New Rats? [9flights]

daveb writes in the Daily Heights Forums: “Does anyone know anything about the accident today (Sun. 26th) on Vanderbilt and Prospect? Looked like someone on a bike got hit. Saw a lot of blood on the ground and what looked like more than one person being taken away by ambulance. It didn’t look good.”

Follow-up from anonymous Guest: “I saw the accident (heard it and then looked). It looked like a young woman was hit by a car on a bicycle. It did not not look good for her. There were also a few people in the car that hit her, it was a hard impact, so I would not be surprised if the driver or other passengers were injured/shook up.”

“Say a prayer for the woman who was hit. I could not bear to stay and watch….it shook me up too much.”

UPDATE! Looks like the prayers worked. We just got an anonymous tip that the biker passed through a local ER today and is doing fine.

Links:
Accident on Vanderbilt [Daily Heights forums]
Elizabeth Padilla Killed by Ice Cream Truck on 5th Near Flatbush [Daily Heights]

Mike writes: “Hello from San Francisco. Just wanted to let you know that I really like what you’ve done with your neighborhood blog. I just started one up for my neighborhood in San Francisco, Potrero Hill, and will probably borrow some of the ideas from your site.”

Borrow away! I’ve taken a look at PHSF… Mike “gets it,” as they say, and it’s based in San Francisco, so naturally, it will take off like wildfire. Go, go, “citizen journalists”! (And BONUS POINTS if you offend a Potrero Hill beat reporter by using that term.)