A man walking on a Haight-area block was the victim of a random attack Wednesday afternoon, when a stranger attacked him with a knife as he walked down Stanyan Street.

Police say that the stabbing occurred at 1:10 p.m. Thursday, on the 700 block of Stanyan, which is between Waller and Haight Streets.

According to the San Francisco Police Department, whose Park Station is just steps from the site of the attack, the 35-year-old victim was walking on Stanyan when the suspect, a man who appeared to be in his mid-20s, came up from behind the victim and stabbed him.

The attack was not provoked, the SFPD emphasizes, and the suspect "is not known to" the victim.

The victim was transported to San Francisco General Hospital, for treatment of injuries police say are not life-threatening. The suspect fled on foot, police say, and remains at large as of publication time.

Related: Haight Dispute Involving Dog And Skateboard Ends In Stabbing

We live just up the street from Haight and Stanyan, and the other day someone dropped off a flyer about how Whole Foods is eager to transform the former Cala Foods (now a vacant lot and boarded-up deathtrap) into a pleasant, overpriced gourmet food store with apartments on top. The design of the flyer reminded us of some incomprehensible posters that appeared briefly in the neighborhood two years ago -- could D.B.H. be back? (Hint: Probably not.)

The flyer promotes 690stanyan.com, a slick-looking website that WF created to make a reasonable case for the project. We'd rather see a Trader Joe's, which has good food good prices; but lots of folks like WF, and the food is pretty good, and it'll serve thousands more people than what's there now. So if WF wants to fight this fight, good for them. We've lived here six years, and the neighborhood would be improved by their presence.

Interestingly, the flyer (which appears not to be the work of WF) blames wealthy property-owner Calvin Welch for holding up the project. Whoever wrote it makes him sound like quite a jerk -- what's up with that? Somebody ought to investigate or whatever.