Email Author Joe Coscarelli

2011 Stories by Joe Coscarelli

• New York Press to Closer Manhattan Media Publisher Tom Allon Makes No Promises Beyond Labor Day

  published Jul 22, 2011

  The days are numbered for New York City's other alternative weekly. We hear that the New York Press will likely cease publication by the summer's end if Manhattan Media can't sell the title or at leas... More >>

• New York Stops Calling Lakes the N-Word

  published Jul 22, 2011

  Upstate New York is a wilderness we usually try to ignore. Apparently, it's not just us because no one noticed that environmental conservation laws refer to remote bodies of water up there by the n-wo... More >>

• Levi Aron Had Other Children's Clothes in the Attic Where He Murdered Leiby Kletzky

  published Jul 22, 2011

  Police are continuing to search the home of Levi Aron, the Brooklyn man who admitted to killing 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, and yesterday removed bags marked "kids pants" and "blue child's spoon, pink c... More >>

• 'Baby Fat Larry' Wants Looser Curfew, Less Mom and Dad

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Anthony Durso, better known as "Baby Fat Larry," an associate of the Colombo crime family, is trying to shake his 7 p.m. curfew because it's cramping his social style. "He is a 27-year-old man and wou... More >>

• Jay Walder, MTA CEO, Resigns: Report

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Jay Welder, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at the endlessly frustrating (and poor!) Metropolitan Transportation Authority since 2009, has resigned, reports CBS New York reporter Tony Aiello ... More >>

• Hot Black Bear Cools Off in New Jersey Pool

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Because we would all rather be spending our day this way. The woman with the camera "cannot believe it," but it makes such perfect sense. [via]... More >>

• Rupert Murdoch's Other Other Newspaper Invokes Starving African Children in Phone Hacking Cartoon

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch and his friends just won't stop defending their master. Days after a Wall Street Journal editorial ran in defense News Corporation's handling of the UK hacking scand... More >>

• Anthony Weiner Mocked in Al Qaeda Magazine as 'An Angry Weiner Head'

  published Jul 21, 2011

  The disgraced sexting congressman has not yet outrun the punchlines, however tired they may be, and likely never will with that name of his. The new issue of the Al Qaeda online magazine Inspire featu... More >>

• Cathie Black Crashes Car After Boozy Hamptons Party

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Rich people, they're just like us: no matter who you are, driving gets harder as the party gets better. Failed New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black couldn't make it out of a Hamptons driveway... More >>

• Vinny Gorgeous Sentenced to Second Life Term in Mob Murder

  published Jul 20, 2011

  The murder trial of Vincent Basciano, better known as "Vinny Gorgeous," was a chest of riches for collectors of mob knowledge nuggets, from fashion to food, rats and kissing in public. Basciano was co... More >>

• Anonymous Hacker Arrests Include 16-Year-Old Girl and Ex-Resident of Williamsburg: 'Faces of Domestic Terrorism'

  published Jul 20, 2011

  While the artist lofts on Kent St. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn were buzzing with police activity this morning, their neighbors at the similar loft spaces on McKibbin St. had an unrelated r... More >>

• Leiby Kletzky Was Drugged Before Murder

  published Jul 20, 2011

  Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old Brooklyn boy kidnapped and murdered last week, was given drugs before he was suffocated. The medical examiner's office announced today that Kletzky died from asphyxiation... More >>

• New York Observer Editorial Defends Rupert Murdoch; Jared Kushner is a Close Friend

  published Jul 20, 2011

  An opinion column in today's New York Observer titled "Murdoch and His Critics" calls the UK phone hacking scandal "deplorable" right away, but spends the remaining nine paragraphs defending News Corp... More >>

• Michael Bloomberg Buying $20 Million Hamptons Mansion

  published Jul 20, 2011

  This week's Village Voice cover story asks, "After two full terms and change, what do you call Bloomberg's New Yorkr In many ways, the mayor has been merely a caretaker." Mayor Mike's third term -- wh... More >>

• Harrison David, Columbia Dealer in Operation Ivy League, Gets Six Months for Guilty Plea

  published Jul 19, 2011

  One of the drug dealing frat boys busted at Columbia University late last year pleaded guilty today to the criminal sale of a controlled substance, accepting felony charges in exchange for light sente... More >>

• Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group Claims to Have News Corp. Emails

  published Jul 19, 2011

  A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by th... More >>

• Rupert Murdoch Hacking Hearing: 'This is the Most Humble Day of My Life'

  published Jul 19, 2011

  The head of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, and his son James, CEO of News International, are currently appearing before the British parliament in London to discuss the rapidly unspooling phone hack... More >>

• Bruce Ivins Maybe Didn't Send the Anthrax, Government Admits in Court Papers

  published Jul 19, 2011

  Bruce Ivins, who committed suicide in 2008, was officially labeled the Anthrax killer posthumously, accused of killing five people with contaminated letters and spooking all of the post-9/11 United St... More >>

• Rais Bhuiyan, 9/11 Hate Crime Victim, Continues Plea For His Shooter's Life

  published Jul 19, 2011

  Rais Bhuiyan, the Texas man brutally injured in a post-9/11 shooting spree that killed at least two, is still fighting for the life of his assailant, Mark Anthony Stroman, whose Texas execution is sch... More >>

• Rupert Murdoch Hacked: LulzSec Claims Media Mogul Dead in The Sun Website Takeover

  published Jul 18, 2011

  Rupert Murdoch, the News Corporation boss currently embroiled in a rapidly spreading phone hacking scandal, got hacked himself today. Before it crashed from traffic, the website for his British newspa... More >>

• David Wax and Wife Judy, NJ Orthodox Jews, Kidnapped Israeli Man Over a Divorce

  published Jul 18, 2011

  David and Judy Wax, an Orthodox New Jersey couple, turned themselves into the FBI today after allegedly beating an Israeli man and claiming they'd bury him alive unless he gave his wife a religious di... More >>

• Hermon Raju, 'Well-Educated' Metro-North Lady, Compares Internet Mockery to Rape

  published Jul 18, 2011

  The New York University graduate who berated a Metro-North conductor for simply asking her to quiet down and quit using foul language is seeking PR help, but Hermon Raju's letter requesting image assi... More >>

• Sean Hoare, News of the World Whistleblower, Found Dead Amid Murdoch Hacking Scandal: 'Not Suspicious'

  published Jul 18, 2011

  Now there's a dead body involved. In the juiciest twist yet, at least for non-media obsessives, the man who helped reignite the investigation into News Corporation's widespread, long-known-about phone... More >>

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  Lanier Brown, Drunk Hit-and-Run Asshole, Is a NYC Firefighter

  published Jul 18, 2011

  Last week we posted video (viewable after the jump) captured by Joey Boots of some idiot crashing his Corvette and then eventually opting to speed away rather than face police questioning, despite the... More >>

• Anonymous Hackers, Banned From Google+, Launching Social Network: AnonPlus

  published Jul 18, 2011

  With their popularity (or at least ubiquity) at an all-time high, the hacktivist group Anonymous still can't play nice with others, but it's not their fault -- at least in their own estimation. Google... More >>