Another Apparent Chicken Sacrifice Takes Place on the Upper West Side

By Gus Saltonstall

For the fifth time since the summer of 2024, a pair of dead chickens have turned up at a Broadway median between West 89th and 92nd streets.

In each instance, the chickens were carefully laid out along the outer ring of the median.

Most recently, two chickens were found Tuesday on Election Day on the outer ring of the Broadway median at the corner of West 90th Street.

The chickens are always the same shade of white and in relatively good condition.

There are no nearby slaughterhouses in the area, and the purposeful placement of the dead animals indicates there is some sort of deliberate action taking place.

In October 2025, West Side Rag obtained video from a nearby building that appears to show a woman with a shopping cart walking out to a Broadway median at West 91st Street, around 2:30 a.m., on September 27, and placing two chickens along the outer ring.

The video zooms in on the woman at around the 55-second mark.

Following ongoing WSR investigation, video was recovered of a woman walking out to a Broadway median with a shopping cart at 2:30 a.m. and gently placing two dead chickens on its outer ring.

She then turns calmly and walks away.

Video gets better around the 1-minute mark. https://t.co/Sr8WP9Vwlm

— Gus Saltonstall (@GusSaltonstall) October 1, 2025

“I believe that it’s some kind of black magic,” the anonymous building employee wrote to the Rag at the time.

Read More:

• Video Appears to Capture Older Woman Placing Dead Chickens on UWS Broadway Median at 2:39 A.M.
• 2 Dead Chickens Again Found in the Middle of the Road on Same 3-Block UWS Stretch
• Pair of Dead Chickens Found in the Middle of the Road for 2nd Time in 3 Block UWS Stretch
• 2 Dead Chickens Found in the Middle of UWS Road

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