Woman, 70, struck by car in Babylon Village

A 70-year-old woman was struck by a car and seriously injured early Wednesday as she tried to cross Montauk Highway in Babylon Village, just down the block from her retirement home, Suffolk police said.

Nancy Mikkelsen, 70, was unconscious after the one-car accident with severe head and internal injuries. She was taken by helicopter to Stony Brook University Medical Center.

The article goes on to say that the incident occurred at 5:38 a.m and that the driver, John Casey, a resident of Lindenhurst, was cited by police for having an unregistered motor vehicle and having switched plates.

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A Rocky Point home Gisela Skoglund and her family are trying to sell has been on the market for nearly two years. The property is large enough to build another house on, and the Skoglunds are asking $319,000.

“We’ve had a lot of people looking at it,” Skoglund said. “But I think it’s actually fear” that keeps people from buying. “People are afraid to make a commitment. When you listen to the media, it’s creating fear. Young people are afraid they’ll lose their jobs.”

Lady, if your house has been on the market for two years, it’s not because people are afraid of losing their jobs.  It’s because the house isn’t priced right.

It’s amazing to me that even now, with the wind howling and the lightning crashing and poison arrows falling from the sky, people are still sitting on their over-inflated prices because that’s what they think the house is worth or that’s what they think they deserve or that’s what they need to get out of their house to make it work for them.

Case in point, my co-worker is retiring and moving out of state. She’s already bought her retirement home and is counting the days before she can bug out of NY state. All that remains is selling her condo.  I advised her that in this market you need to be agressive with your price reductions to move a property quickly. She snipped that she wasn’t going to lower her price. The place was listed just over the number she needed to make the retirement work for her. And, in fact, she turned down an offer that was 15% off her ask.

As a buyer, I don’t really care what the seller “needs” to make the deal work for him or her. I don’t care about the mortgage on the house or the home equity loan you need to pay off or how much money you need to get to settle your divorce.  I only care if the price works for me. If it doesn’t, then I walk.

The most recent act of vandalism at St. Joseph’s Church on Carll Avenue occurred sometime between 4 p.m. Saturday and 7:15 a.m. Sunday, police said Monday afternoon.

This incident included “anti-religious phrases spray painted on church grounds,” according to a Suffolk police news release. Police did not say how many incidents have occurred at the church in the past year.

Police are investigating, and detectives urge witnesses or those who have information about any of the incidents to call the Hate Crimes Unit at 631-852-6323 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

Not much to say about this except that it’s truly despicable.

Daniel Brock, 19, of West Babylon, was driving a 2006 Cadillac CTS north on Fire Island Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. when he tried to pass a 2001 Infiniti in a no-passing zone, police said.

The cars, which were going above the 30-mph speed limit, touched near the Cedar Lane intersection and Brock lost control of the Cadillac, which skidded sideways into an unoccupied parked 1997 Ford pickup truck, police said.