Email Author Joe Coscarelli

2011 Stories by Joe Coscarelli

• Stun Gun Found on Plane Headed For New Jersey

  published Jul 11, 2011

  The FBI is looking into a stun gun found on a JetBlue flight from Boston to Newark, New Jersey, but a spokesman says it probably wasn't for a terrorist attack. That seems obvious considering it was fo... More >>

• Andrew Stein, Ex-City Council President, Spends Community Service Reading, Chatting

  published Jul 11, 2011

  Andrew Stein, the former City Council president in NYC under Mayor Ed Koch, was sentenced to 500 hours of community service for tax evasion stemming from a Kenneth Starr-assisted Ponzi scheme, but he'... More >>

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  Were 9/11 Victims Hacked by Rupert Murdoch's News of the World, Toor

  published Jul 11, 2011

  Despite the last issue of News of the World being published yesterday, the phone hacking scandal haunting Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid -- and his whole News Corp. empire -- is only getting scarier... More >>

• Marcia Kramer, Local Reporter: Terrorists Could Use Manhattan Bike Lanes

  published Jul 08, 2011

  "A Second Avenue bike lane is next to the Israeli Consulate," notes CBS 2 reporter Marcia Kramer in a sensational report last night on extensions to Manhattan bike lanes. "Imagine if the man on the b... More >>

• Blake Mycoskie, TOMS Shoes Founder, Working With Christian, Anti-Gay Focus on the Family

  published Jul 08, 2011

  Today, the internet noticed that Blake Mycoskie, the founder of the philanthropic slip-on shoe company TOMS, which donates a pair of shoes for every one bought (and has expanded greatly and now includ... More >>

• A $30,000 Gay Wedding at Del Posto Can Be Yours! And Yours, And Yours...

  published Jul 08, 2011

  It's not as absurd as the time they offered a personalized paparazzi experience, but it's still pretty damn extravagant: today, Gilt City New York, the daily deals site's local arm, is offering an "Al... More >>

• Casey Anthony as Told by Andrea Peyser: The Romance Novel Edit

  published Jul 08, 2011

  Below are some of the words and trite (tantalizingr) turns of phrase used by unyielding New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser to describe not-guilty murder mom Casey Anthony in Peyser's third consecut... More >>

• Ilonko Krauss, Holocaust Survivor, Hit by Minivan

  published Jul 08, 2011

  The local Fox News television reporter puts it like this: "To survive the worst of the worst -- a Nazi death camp! -- and then 70 years later, you're crossing this little street in Queens and you get ... More >>

• Baojing Li, Buddhist Nun, Refuses Plea Deal For Passing Out Beads

  published Jul 08, 2011

  A Buddhist nun was arrested and charged with being an unlicensed vendor, a misdemeanor, just for handing out prayer beads on Canal Street and taking donations for her burned down house of worship, her... More >>

• Rupert Murdoch Kills Baby: News of the World Goes Down in UK Phone Hacking Scandal

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Although the website is still offering a four-week free trial, today's announcement that News Corporation will shutter its long-running Sunday tabloid News of the World because of a now officially out... More >>

• NYC is a 'Ghost Town': 1 in 25 Manhattan Homes Are Empty Because of Rich People

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Out of 845,000 houses and apartments in Manhattan, 102,000 were counted as vacant according to census numbers, the New York Times reports today, and more than 33,000, or one in 25 residences on the ma... More >>

• David Weprin Chosen by Democrats to Run For Anthony Weiner's Seat in Congress

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Congressman Anthony Weiner's resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives for his sexting lies led to a local flurry of speculation about a successor, who will be picked in a special election on... More >>

• "1 Tip For a Tiny Belly" Ad on Internet is a Scam, Obviously

  published Jul 07, 2011

  The advertisement to the right, which everyone who uses the internet ignores on a daily basis, leads those hapless enough to click on it into a large-scale web of bullshit diet products -- including "... More >>

• News Corp. Phone Hacking Scandal Now Includes Murdered Child, Terrorist Victims and War Veterans

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and News International, which include our local Wall Street Journal and New York Post, plus England's News of the World, Times of London and The Sun tablo... More >>

• Bystanders Lift Car Off Pinned Harlem Boy

  published Jul 07, 2011

  Four people in Manhattan yesterday saved a life and gained a story they'll likely tell for the rest of their lives when they helped lift a Honda Civic off of a little boy stuck underneath. Jaden Torre... More >>

• Serial Bank Robber in NYC Prefers Chase

  published Jul 06, 2011

  The second repeat offender robbing banks in Brooklyn and Queens this year -- after the FBI-nabbed Holiday Bandit -- is still at large and has a preference for Chase Bank, police revealed today. He's b... More >>

• Eliot Spitzer CNN Show, In the Arena, Cancelled, Freeing Him Up to Run NYC

  published Jul 06, 2011

  After a prolonged period of subpar ratings, even canning cohost Kathleen Parker (and changing the show's name) couldn't save CNN's In the Arena, where our former, prostitute-loving governor Eliot Spit... More >>

• Bear Bile, Gallbladders Banned in NYC

  published Jul 06, 2011

  Though its passage was largely overlooked because of issues like equality among humans, the New York State Senate also voted this year to ban the "possession, sale, barter, offer, purchase, transporta... More >>

• Pope Benedict XVI Tweets on iPad, Almost

  published Jun 28, 2011

  "Today not few young people, stunned by infinite possibilities offered by information networks or by other technologies, establish forms of communication that do not contribute to growth in humanity, ... More >>

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  Subway Masturbator Captured on Camera, Shamed by Brave Victim Online

  published Jun 28, 2011

  On Monday night, Lauren, a New York City web producer, was riding a crowded Brooklyn-bound F train on her way home from work around 7 p.m. when the man standing in front of her got gross. As she stood... More >>

• Michael Bloomberg and His Mayor Friends Target Al Qaeda in New Gun Ad

  published Jun 28, 2011

  More than 600 mayors nationally, including our own Michael Bloomberg in a leadership role, have started a new television advertising campaign meant to draw attention to an Al Qaeda video that urges te... More >>

• Rapping Man Climbs Times Square Light Pole For MTV's Attention

  published Jun 28, 2011

  Forty-fourth Street and Seventh Ave. was momentarily exciting early this afternoon when a man climbed a light pole in Times Square and refused to come down for more than an hour. He sat atop the traff... More >>

• Anthony Weiner Wants to Help Choose His Successor

  published Jun 28, 2011

  When he's not shopping or practicing being a husband, Anthony Weiner is making calls about his old job as a Democratic congressman in New York City's 9th district, which he left after lying about his ... More >>

• Gabrielle Giffords Honored Husband, Waved to Crowd in Houston

  published Jun 28, 2011

  Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman shot in the head during the January rampage that killed six and injured 13, made her first public appearance in front of a crowd on Monday during a c... More >>

• Someone Left Four Pairs of Sneakers, Five Pounds of Cocaine at JFK Airport

  published Jun 28, 2011

  Nearly five pounds of cocaine were found hidden in the soles of sneakers in a suitcase at John F. Kennedy Airport last week, Customs and Border Protection Officers announced on Monday. No one ever pic... More >>