mosquito=terrorist, originally uploaded by brainware3000.

How many bites have you endured so far this January? izisharp writes on the Prospect Heights Message Board: “I killed 5 more last night!… 4 of them in my bedroom throughout the night. Damn this balmy weather!!!”

izi is not alone… far from it. Reports from all across the neighborhood indicate that the mild weather has given rise to a fresh crop of mosquitos. Or did they ever go away?

Enjoy the novelty - with weather weirdness kicking into overdrive, we’ll give it just a few more seasons before winter mosquitoes are as unremarkable as the new “riverfront” condos springing up along 4th Avenue. Goodbye Coney Island… hello Gowanus Bay!

Mosquito Reports: Read all about it on the Prospect Heights Message Board

I Totally Dig AirTrain, originally uploaded by tangentialism.

whereisscott asks on the Prospect Heights Message Board: “I don’t think that I’ve ever had a cabbie that knew how to get from Prospect Heights from JFK. This discovery usually leads to some pretty crap directions involving the Belt Parkway and the BQE, and $50 later, I’m at home.”

“Anyone have any better directions to get to PH from JFK that won’t cost me an arm and a leg?”

1. The standard: “Belt Pkwy West bound to N. Conduit. Take the Conduit to the Atlantic Ave. merge. Atlantic Ave. to whatever your cross streets are and make a left.” -Idlewild
2. The road less traveled: N. Conduit –> Linden –> Right Turn onto Rockaway Pkwy which becomes Buffalo —> Left on Eastern Pkwy. This is controversial, but ugarte says that Linden is faster than Atlantic.
3. Cheap, and maybe not as slow as you think: AirTrain to the 2/3. meganthelibrarian says: “It might be 25% slower overall (1 hour vs 40-45 minutes), but it’s so much less stressful. I know what the transit cost will be ($20 RT a person, versus $65-75 plus tip for a car service RT), the ‘drivers’ never deviate from the route, and I don’t have to make any annoying small talk. Absolute heaven.”

More travel tips on the Prospect Heights Message Board