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. Found in the Remsen Street apartment he shared with AIDS researcher Dr. Michael Clatts (they had their own living spaces in the duplex) were a "sniper rifle, machine gun,......

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. Ivanov, who his lawyer says is Jewish, claims that the pipe......

Above right image from WNBC, below photograph of 58 Remsen Street from the Daily News 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! Ivaylo Ivanov got the attention of police around 1AM yesterday morning, claiming he was shot in......

Photograph of form the Brooklyn Heights Promenade by wallyg on flickr After a man arrived at a Brooklyn hospital with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gun shot wound to his hand, police investigating the incident discovered a cache of weapons, including multiple pipe bombs, in his Brooklyn Heights apartment. Police could not rule out terrorism as they confiscated weapons and possibly explosive devices from the man's apartment on Remsen St. And they weren't......

Newspaper photographers usually tend to contribute to the story - not be the subject of them. But today there happens to be two stories about the NY Post's shutterbugs. One photographer, Jason Nicholas, who served almost 13 years on a manslaughter conviction (he was 19 when he fired a rifle at a man, who later died), was arrested last month while covering a story. Apparently the cop told him not to use his flash while......

It's time for the tabloids to make a number of bada-boom puns, as the police confirmed that it was a pipe bomb that was set off yesterday morning outside the West 29th Street building owned by Sopranos actor Michael Imperioli and his wife. The NYPD said there no known threats to the Imperiolis and during a press conference, Mayor Bloomberg said, "While there certainly is no evidence that this was terrorism, we are taking......

This morning, an explosion occurred on 29th Street near 8th Avenue. No one was injured, but a van was damaged and residents were evacuated during the 1AM incident. The police believe it was either a pipe bomb or another "small explosive...meant to scare as opposed to cause significant damage or injuries." The explosion happened outside a ground floor space called Studio Dante, a small theater owned by Michael Imperioli, best known as Christopher Moltisanti......

After scaring residents of two boroughs when a woman discovered a pipe bomb on her Jeep Cherokee, police arrested Baudelio Rodriguez for making a pipe bomb and placing it on a car. What makes the story more strange is that it was Rodriguez's daughter who discovered the bomb - the Jeep belongs to his daughter and his wife! He was reportedly angry at his wife for leaving their Brooklyn home and staying with their daughter......

Police are wondering if yesterday's execution-style killing of Genovese crime family member is related to the shooting of another mob member a day before. The Post has a graphic (pictured) showing that the Tuesday attack on Gambino family member Robert DeCicco was just a mile away from Rudolph Izzi's Shore Parkway home, where he was found dead. Izzi's body was shot in the head, after a friend/doctor noticed there were signs of forced entry. Izzi,......

Remember when kids would just cause explosions with chemistry sets? Well, 18 year old Jackson Lam was at home in Woodhaven making pipe bombs and threw one out a window yesterday afternoon. Good one! As if that wouldn't make neighbors call the police, who would then come and investigate. The neighbors did just that when they heard the explosion, and the bomb squad found Lam and his neighbor, Raoul Cano, with another pipe bomb that......

Ah, leave it to a little pipe bomb to stir up tensions between the FDNY and NYPD. Firefighters found a pipe bomb in Queens. Now, procedure says that the NYPD has to be notified immediately, but the firefighters brought the bomb back to the stationhouse, calling the NYPD about an hour later. Now this is where things get crazy: Before the NYPD arrived, some firefighters may have tried to reassemble the pipe bomb...and then it......

Yesterday, a mysterious incident caused the Williamsburg Bridge to be shut down, both on the roadway and subway, yesterday morning. The J, M, and Z were affected, and proving that some people do ride the J, M, and Z, one reader wrote to Gothamist about the incident, feeling that it was impromptu and a pain, "as more or less mellow cops directed thwarted hipsters to the L," adding, "I don't know how those hipsters stand......

In a possible new twist regarding Monday night's explosion in Times Square, it looks like police are looking at the possibility that the off-duty police officer who found the package which exploded and injured him may have planted the pipe bomb in the first place. The possible motive? Officer Joseph Rodriguez had been "awarded a pension last week, over his objection, because of a mental illness stemming from the World Trade Center attacks," NY1......

Last night, Times Square was shut down due to an explosion in the 8th Avenue Times Square subway station. The explosion was from a paper bag, approximately the size of a gym bag, that contained firecrackers. Interestingly, the Post described the contents as a pipe bomb with gunpowder and BBs in a knapsack. That's certainly a nice way to instill some fear into the public as the Republican Convention nears. After the explosion at 8:04......

Gothamist is always interested in New York crime stories, and yesterday's discovery of pipe bombs in Brooklyn Heights makes for a truly confusing case. Take a look at the details and post your hypothesis in comments. The opening of the Times article gives a sense of the strange intrigue: Nearly two years ago, a 64-year-old military buff was arrested on charges that he set off a pipe bomb at a Brooklyn Heights party thrown for......