A 23-year-old Brooklyn college student was killed and two others were injured in a heads-on car crash yesterday. Victim Jamal Iqual was driving his Ford Windstar minivan north on Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay when he was hit head-on by a black BMW M6 around 11:45 p.m. Saturday. Police say the 26-year-old driver of the BMW was speeding southbound on Ocean Parkway when he lost control of the car. more ›

The Brooklyn man charged with murder after police found his roommate in pieces in his refrigerator has confessed, according to police. One NYPD source tells the Daily News Sergey Mamonov, 50, "was very matter of fact. He didn’t want to say anything at first, but once he started talking, he wouldn’t shut up. He said he decided there was no other way to take care of (the victim)." What happened to the old days, when roommates settled their differences with a passive-aggressive note, or a stern admonishment to "Shut up, little man"? more ›

Six months ago Sergey Mamontov, a 50-year-old Russian immigrant from Sheepshead Bay, decided to welcome a roommate into his apartment. But it seems they didn't click, and the unidentified 55-year-old roommate ended up moving into Mamontov's refrigerator. more ›

Twenty-three dogs were rescued from a Sheepshead Bay home which had no running water or working heat early this morning. Agents from the ASPCA and Animal Care and Control executed a search warrant in two Sheepshead Bay homes about 8:30 a.m. after receiving reports of an elderly couple hoarding dogs in bad conditions. “It smelled like dog feces and urine,” said neighbor Stacey Krauf. “You could smell it across the street.” more ›

Have you seen that "Sh*t Employed Educators Say" video where that teacher asks "Have you had anal sex?" Neither have we. This is apparently why 52-year-old science teacher Bart Ocuto left Sheepshead Bay High School this year. The Daily News reports that in addition to asking a female student about her abstinence-life, Ocuto described the Three Bases system to another student: "tongue and touching…blow job…all the way." Perhaps Ocuto should have been fired for his misreading of the 1974 Hickey Accords: since when was second base oral sex? more ›

New York City's war on small businesses continues unabated: a Mom & Pop MetroCard operation was cruelly cut down, and two roll-your-own cigarette joints that offer Freedom from excessive, lawful excise taxes are being sued by The Man. Thankfully, these actions haven't deterred Jack Wang from opening his own roll-your-own tobacco shop, City Smokes, in Sheepshead Bay. “I don’t want to fight with the city. I don’t want any trouble,” Wang tells the Daily News. “I need to pay the rent. I have no choice.” You hear that, Mayor? He has no choice but to exploit a perceived loophole in the law and spread Liberty and Tar all over this town. more ›

Yesterday, a 50-year-old Brooklyn woman was found stabbed to death just steps from her Sheepshead Bay home. Police say Larisa Komsky was stabbed twice in the leg and once in the hand by a mysterious attacker around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. Komsky, an accountant, had been seen arguing with the assailant earlier. Police have now released video of the attacker lying in wait for Komsky outsider her home. more ›

A 50-year-old Brooklyn woman was found stabbed to death just steps from her Sheepshead Bay home last night. Police say Larisa Komsky was attacked around 12:45 a.m. just after parking her new Mercedes convertible. Komsky, a single mother with an adult son who often worked late hours, was seen arguing with a man just before the stabbing: “It took her five minutes to park, and he hid behind the Lincoln for maybe four, five minutes. Then he went out of frame for 15 seconds, killed her, and he went to the car and took off,” a neighbor told the Post, explaining that his surveillance camera captured the murder on video. more ›

The NYPD collected 164 guns at a buyback on Staten Island Saturday, but there's still a long way to go, as gunfire in Brooklyn and Queens over the weekend left three men dead and two people injured. The first murder occurred around 11 p.m. Saturday night in Sheepshead Bay, where a 27-year-old man named Avery Kelly was gunned down in the entrance of an apartment building at 2258 Batchelder Street, just down the block from his residence. Police sources tell the Daily News they recovered more than 25 shell casings in the hallway of the building, and no arrests have been made. more ›

A 9-year-old boy was stabbed in the stomach while walking with his grandmother on Wednesday in Brooklyn, and police are now searching for two teens who they believe are responsible. Siu Fung Sze was walking home from summer camp with his grandmother in Sheepshead Bay around 6 p.m. when they were jumped: "The two attackers were standing here, they were leaning against the poles. Basically, they came out of nowhere and stabbed her grandson," said a translator for the grandmother, Yue Lan Zhou. more ›

If you're wondering why stretch Hummers' tinted windows seem extra black today, it's because a Sheepshead Bay prostitution ring that billed clients more than $10,000 a night has been busted. The Post reports that 17 people and 5 corporations have been indicted in the sting. The service also offered cocaine with their pricey ladies, because when you're paying 10 large a night, you better be able to act as quickly as you can. more ›

A Brooklyn supermarket is pumping the smell of tasty foods throughout the store as a way to entice customers into buying more food that we probably don't need. NetCost Market, which has stores in Brooklyn and Staten Island, installed "small, black wall-mounted" machines into its Sheepshead Bay store at 16th st and Gravesend Neck Road that pump out odors of "Smoky Bacon," "Rosemary Focaccia," and "Lindt Chocolate." "Because of the scents, I think fruit sales probably up 7 to 8 percent," a NetCost spokeswoman tells the Post. Heaven help us if these smells someday replace samples. more ›

There's trouble in Palm Beach. More specifically, the Palm Beach Home, a nursing home located next to an Asian-fusion restaurant/nightclub in Sheepshead Bay named OPM. Ha ha GET IT?! "Opium!" Like that substance that was responsible for the death and misery of millions of Chinese and the foisting of British colonial might upon an innocent people! The Palm Beach Home's director tells the Post that they can't stand the "oom-sts" emanating out of the bar, and that "you know it's loud when you have 100-year-old people without their hearing aids complaining that the noise keeps them up at night." No problem, just jack up the surround sound and pass the OPM pipe during Matlock. more ›

Yesterday morning around 5 a.m., a shooting broke out at a Brooklyn apartment complex, killing a 22-year-old Crystal Sweet and her 29-year-old boyfriend Timothy Walter and critically injuring the boyfriend's 30-year-old brother, Cornelius Walter. The violence erupted in the courtyard of the Sheepshead Bay Houses; according to WCBS 2, the victims were "confronted by the gunman as they returned home." Sweet's mother said, "We heard like six or seven shots and then the screaming, they were screaming, ‘Crystal is dead, Crystal is dead. I never thought this day would happen. I never really thought this would happen.” more ›

Welcome back to another installment of Ethnic Eating Adventures, in which we travel far and wide to discover the hidden culinary delights of New York City. For today's adventure, we're visiting Sheepshead Bay to stuff our gullets full of heavy, infinitely satisfying Georgian food at Pirosmani. more ›

Police says it's still investigating the murders of a Brooklyn mother and daughter who were founded brutally stabbed in a Brooklyn apartment last week, but many think that a likely suspect will never be brought to justice because the mother's boyfriend, an ex-Russian military man known as a "Russian Rambo," has fled to Russia. But Nikolai Rakossi's sister claims he's remorseful—and even thinks he's dead—telling the Post, "He was in tears. He told me: 'Please don't keep any offense in your heart about me. Forgive me. You will never see me again.' more ›

Those crime sleuths at the NY Post have gotten to the bottom of the appalling double murder of a mother and daughter in Sheepshead Bay, which was possibly perpetrated by a knife-wielding "Russian Rambo" who escaped to Moscow before the bodies were found. In today's article, the tabloid declares: "The vodka made him psycho." How do they know this? Because the apartment Nikolai Rakossi left behind on Sunday morning wasn't just filled with the "butchered" bodies of his wife and her daughter; it was also "littered with vodka bottles." And so the motive is clear—it was the vodka! If that's the case, there's a psycho killer lurking inside every Russian, just one shot of Stoli away from chopping you into hamburger. more ›

It turns out the Russian national suspected of killing his wife and her daughter is an elite special ops soldier who's known as a "Russian Rambo" to his friends. And NYPD investigators aren't at all optimistic about bringing him back to face justice for the horrific stabbing murders, because Russia's constitution prohibits extraditing citizens to stand trial on foreign soil. As more details emerge about the carnage, Nikolai Rakossi is presumably sipping vodka somewhere in Mother Russia—he caught a flight out just five hours before the bodies were found, and was so confident of his escape he reportedly told the cab driver exactly where he was going in Russia. more ›

Hours after the savage murder of young mom Larisa Prikhodko, 28, and her mother, Tatyana Prikhodko, in the mom's Sheepshead Bay apartment, Tatyana's live-in boyfriend was caught on surveillance video leaving the premises with two suitcases. Police say Nikolai Rakossi hightailed it to JFK Airport and flew to Moscow on a one-way ticket. The NYPD and the State Department are working with Russian officials to negotiate getting him back, but one law enforcement official tells the Daily News, "If he has money or influential ties there, he's gone. They won't send him back." more ›

Last month, the Stonewall Democratic Club, the "oldest and largest citywide Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) Democratic organization," came out against Walmart, the retail giant who are trying to open their first NYC-based store in East New York. And now, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a political action committee based in Washington, has joined in the anti-Walmart fervor: “With the expansion of Wal-Mart stores comes the expansion of antiquated employment policies that provide little to no protections for, and at times even hostility toward, their L.G.B.T. employees.” more ›

If you've got a valid college ID (or if you're like us and just using your old one until you really don't look like the picture anymore) head out to Chipp Pizza tomorrow, because they're giving away free pies to all the academics in honor of their grand opening. Chipp has reportedly been soft open for a few months; it was started by former The Apprentice contestant Lenny Veltman, who once said of the joint, “We wanted to create a modern lounge much like a Chipotle or Panera Bread store, not another take out pizza joint. Somewhere you’d go on a date." Nothing more romantic than Chipotle! more ›

Police were seeking a 23-year-old man suspected of stabbing his stepfather to death earlier this morning, but now the hunt for Maksim Gelman is more urgent after he allegedly fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her mother this afternoon. Gelman also apparently stabbed a man before stealing his car and then, while driving, struck a pedestrian. more ›

Sheepshead Bites nabbed this gnarly photo this morning of an NYPD SUV flipped over on its side on the sidewalk. "A neighbor described the scene as 'horrible' after witnessing the police officers loaded into ambulances, and said both officers looked like they were in bad condition," writes Bites. "The westbound Belt Parkway was temporarily shut down to aid in their transport to the hospital...The incident occurred around 8:45 a.m. when the civilian car ran a stop sign and clipped the police vehicle, according to a neighbor." But it turns out that nobody was seriously injured, so you don't have to feel bad about enjoying the photo. more ›

Last week, the Department of Buildings went back on their approval on plans for an Islamic community center in Sheepshead bay, citing the need to determine whether a "place of assembly" permit is needed. However, property owner Allowey Ahmed believed the DOB caved to pressure from anti-Islamic protesters in the area. Yesterday, the DOB re-approved construction designs on the center. “They came in to address our questions and the hold has been lifted,” spokeswoman Carly Sullivan told the Brooklyn Paper. more ›