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Nikolia RakossiNikolai Rakossi [/tag/nikolai-rakossi/], the husband and step-father of two women brutally murdered in a Sheepshead Bay apartment in 2011, is now on trial in Russia after four years, an international manhunt and unprecedented collaboration between Russian and American law enforcement agencies. Rakossi is accused of the stabbing deaths
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Morning commuters were treated to a view of a plume of smoke rising out of a grate and stretching across Avenue Z today, after an underground utility box owned by Con Edison burst into flames. The fire broke out at approximately 8:00am this morning. Con Edison confirmed the fire,
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Police are now circulating the above photos of the man they believe to be behind a spate of night-time home burglaries in Homecrest [/cops-warn-home-burglary-trend-homecrest-area/]. The image comes after yet another burglary on October 17. At approximately 2:55am, the suspect broke into a home on East 8th Street near Avenue
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C’mon, it was either “out of this world” or “stellar.” Maybe “cosmic”? Whatever spacey word choice you prefer, it’s awesome. Local photographer Jeff Newman captured this photo of last night’s supermoon, assisted by Kim Patrick Clow, who submitted it to us. Supermoons [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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I spotted this sign hanging from a tree on Avenue Y and East 13th Street the other day. It was a pity I didn’t have a better camera on me. Hopefully more stuff like this pops up around the neighborhood. It was a welcome sight to shake me from
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Police handoutPolice are searching for two suspects they believe robbed a 39-year-old woman at gunpoint. The victim was walking near Avenue U and East 13th Street on February 7 at approximately 9 p.m., when the perps approached and one pulled a gun. The thieves fled with an iPhone, MetroCard,
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THE BITE: [/tag/the-bite/] Today on The Bite, it’s seaweed time! Seaweed comes in many varieties as it is an umbrella term for all species of ocean plants, and it can be prepared many ways. The one pictured here is Korean kim (or sometimes spelled gim, pronounced with a
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Nikolai RakossiLarisa and Tatyana Prikhodko.Russian authorities will not be deporting Nikolai Rakossi [/tag/nikolai-rakossi/] to the Unites States to stand trial for the 2011 slayings of Larisa Prikhodko [/tag/larisa-prikhodko/] and her mother, Tatyana [/tag/tatyana-prikhodko/], a spokesperson for the Brooklyn district attorney confirmed to Sheepshead Bites. Still, Rakossi
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The tree bed one year ago after planting sunflowers, and the same tree bed on Monday.An award-winning tree bed on East 14th Street that was built by neighborhood children and celebrated by local pols [/photos-children-honored-for-east-14th-street-cleanup/] has been ripped out and destroyed, and neighbors are pointing a finger at the
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Photo by Karen D.A fire broke out at approximately 11:30 a.m., and at least one person was carried out of the 1203 Avenue Y building by EMS, reports neighbor Karen D. The call came over the police scanners shortly after 11:30. By 11:50 a.m.
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Source: YAI.orgSeveral autistic and developmentally disabled people who previously lived in group homes in Sheepshead Bay are among the hundreds left displaced after Superstorm Sandy took a heavy toll on their facilities. YAI Network, an organization which manages several such homes in the area, announced today that two of
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Just minutes after New York City was placed under tornado warning on Saturday morning, the area got a bit of Kansas thrown its way. Winds picked up quickly as the storm rolled in off the Atlantic, over the Rockaways, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach and Sheepshead Bay. And with it came
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Photo by David T.In the ongoing war between private and public transportation, there is no compassion, no kindness, no mercy. No one is spared, not even innocent bus shelters standing by the side of the road, doing nothin’ to nobody. Everything is fair game, and curbs mean nothing to
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Loved ones of the mother and daughter nurses stabbed to death [/mother-daughter-stabbed-to-death-on-east-13th-street/] at 2299 East 13 thStreet are turning to the Facebook community for help in nabbing Russian national Nikolai Rakossi [/photo-east-13th-street-double-stabbing-suspect-nikolai-rakossi/], the suspect accused of the grizzly double homicide. According to a report by News 12 Brooklyn [http://www.
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Over the weekend, we asked all our Facebook [http://www.facebook.com/sheepshead.bites?ref=profile]buddies to upload their old photos of Sheepshead Bay and tag them “Sheepshead Bites”. We were happy to see some readers listened, and a dozen or so photos poured in. This one came from