(Photo courtesy of Brooklyn View)

(Updated 4:11 pm [and again at 4:35])

From the Brooklyn View:

A 32-year-old white man was stabbed to death at 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 21, in Sheepshead Bay. The murder took place on the corner of Ave. Z and E. 17th St.

According to police at the scene, the man was stabbed repeatedly in the stomach, and crawled to the corner of E. 16th and Ave. Z where he succumbed to the injury. There was a blood trail that stretched a block. He was found by a woman lying dead early this morning.

Original Post:
There has been a stabbing death in the area of East 16th street and Avenue Z. A reader wrote in that "A huge portion of Avenue Z, around Bagel Boy and the Sheepshead market, and 16th street to Ave Y was taped off with cops and investigators standing around inside."

We do not have any more information on this incident, or any photos other than the one above, which we're not even sure is related to the incident. If you have any more information, please leave it in the comments area or email it to nberke@sheepsheadbites.com. Please send any available photos of the scene. We'll update readers as we learn more.

Reader Celeste Leibowitz sent this in last night:

Today around noon my husband and I were waiting for the Manhattan-bound Q train on the Sheepshead Bay station when we noticed a number of transit police on the platform. The Q train pulled in halfway and then stopped. It appeared someone or something was on the tracks.

When we leaned over we could see a very pretty Siamese cat sitting quietly by the side of the tracks. The fact that it hadn't dashed out of the way of the oncoming train told us it was either injured or sick.

A conversation between the conductor and the transit police ensued and one of the policemen used the front of the train to climb down onto the tracks and try to pick up the cat. The poor thing was definitely injured as it could not get up and run but could only try to scuttle out of the way as the officer tried to pick it up. He was having no luck capturing the cat, even with a canvas bag a passenger waiting on the platform handed him, when I got his attention and told him to get the cat by the scruff of the neck so it could not defend itself by attacking him (which it was trying to do).

The cat was removed and it was clear it had been injured, maybe hit by the previous train, because its legs and tail were damaged. Now this was a Siamese cat, an expensive breed, and I am sure that somewhere there is a heartbroken owner wondering about his/her pet. I called the transit police and they told me the cat was taken to the ASPCA, presumably to their hospital up on E. 62nd Street in Manhattan.

Maybe if you publicize this incident the owner will find out what has happened to the cat. I hope so. I don't know the full extent of its injuries but even if it could not be saved, the owners would prefer to have some closure, I am sure.

Brooklyn's oldest bicycle shop, Roy's Sheepshead Cycle, was aflame at 4:00 a.m. today, with a fire that started in the shop's mechanical repair area. Located at 2679 Coney Island Ave. the store has been a community fixture since its establishment in 1931. Luckily, the fire did not hinder the shop's ability to serve the neighborhood: despite the fire, the store remains open, and though the service area (located in a garage towards the back of the establishment) has been shut down, Roy's mechanics packed up and moved into an empty storefront two doors down, according to Ilya Nikhamin, who works in sales. Nikhamin added that he expects the store to be "fully operational - 100%" within two weeks. Fire marshals have not yet discovered the cause of the fire.

-Thanks to "local broker" for the tip.