Brooklyn Heights resident Ivaylo Ivanov used to like to stay busy. When he wasn't wandering the neighborhood distributing fliers encouraging people to "Kill All Jews" and reminding them that "US hates you," he was spray-painting swastikas on synagogues and tending to his impressive home arsenal. You may recall that police discovered his cache—which included explosives, a semiautomatic handgun, a sniper rifle, machine guns, ammunition, and a pipe bomb hidden in a Nerf football—after Ivanov called them when he shot himself in the hand. Well, Ivanov is going to have to find other ways of passing the time in prison; he finally pleaded guilty to weapons possession and criminal mischief as a hate crime, and faces up to 18 years in prison. Of course, many influential books have been written from behind bars. more ›

Brooklyn Heights residents may have thought their neighborhood had earned a respite from anti-Semitic graffiti after the arrest and confession of Ivaylo Ivanov, who committed and then confessed to a string of vandalism incidents last year that left Brooklyn Heights peppered with swastikas in spray paint. But last week another wall was defaced with a symbol of hate. The incident involved a a brick apartment building at 22 Remsen St. The swastika was first spotted by Donald Brennan, who owns a nearby building. He told The New York Times "'I was sitting in my car at the curb with my family, I looked over my shoulder and I saw it there,' he said, adding that he felt 'absolutely shocked, kind of sick.'” more ›

When you're found to be making pipe bombs amidst an apartment arsenal of weapons and then confess to painting swastikas in your Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, expect the book to be thrown at you repeatedly. Ivaylo Ivanov was charged with over 100 criminal counts for his activities. more ›

The story of Ivaylo Ivanov just gets more and more strange. First, he calls the cops saying that he was shot in the hand only to admit that he shot himself. Next, the police investigate the situation only to find a cache of assorted weapons and pipe bombs at Ivanov's residence. Now the 31-year-old ex-con admits to defacing Brooklyn Heights with swastikas last year. more ›

Yesterday we mentioned that a cache of weapons - including a number of pipe bombs - were found in a Remsen Street apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Now it turns out the apartment was shared by an ex-con and a professor at Columbia University! more ›