Some local items

Brooklyn Industries opens a little Scion dealership - test drives and everything - on Bedford Ave. yesterday.

Mergers and acquisitions. Shanghai Lee, which has a brand new sign, gives up its spot on Manhattan Ave at the end of Bedford Ave. just outside the G stop. Anticipation....

Bedford and N9th, this place has been behind plywood for at least a year and a half. No visible permits to see what's going on.

Though no BPC turkey, this partridge-like bird is pretty exotic for the parking lot of Automotive High School. The neighbor who identified it as a "Chucker" said he had also seen a parakeet and a red tailed hawk (with squirrel) in the past few hours. It's a friggin' safari.

Radegast cometh