Email Author Roy Edroso

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 15, 2008

  "Blogosphere Guide"

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Runnin' Scared

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2009 Stories by Roy Edroso

• Have a Dorkalicious Teen YouTube New Year

  published Dec 31, 2009

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• Somebody Got Murdered, Hopefully the Last One This Year: Jose Lazala

  published Dec 31, 2009

  More details have come in on that shooting in Harlem on the 26th: Jose Lazala, 30, of West 192nd Street, was an attendant working the VFC Parking Garage at 161 West 132 Street, where Tuesday night so... More >>

• Blackwater Guards' Charges Dismissed in Baghdad Mass Murder

  published Dec 31, 2009

  About a year ago, five Blackwater security guards working for the U.S. government were arraigned on federal charges for killing a bunch of civilians in Baghdad's Nissor Square. Today those charges wer... More >>

• Celebrate New Year's at Times Square Hotel Mass Kissing Event

  published Dec 31, 2009

  If you don't want to stand in the snow of Times Square tonight, or drink too much with friends and family, here's a suggestion from Colgate : join them at the Doubletree Guest Suites on Broadway, wher... More >>

• Bloomberg III Begins

  published Dec 31, 2009

  Mayor Bloomberg has signed the forms that make him Mayor for a third term. (Exciting video here!) WNYC reports that the fee for the filing, which had been 15 cents at his first swearing-in in 2001, is... More >>

• MTA Big Regrets Free New Years' Rides of the 80s

  published Dec 31, 2009

  The New York Times has a reminiscence of the free New Years Eve's rides MTA gave passengers in 1984 and 1985 -- which, we remember, added an especially festive air to the subways those nights. The all... More >>

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  Why This Decade Sucked, #2: Geeks Spittin' Like Gangstas

  published Dec 31, 2009

  We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. We're behind schedule, so here are four for the price of one. Previous reasons: social media ruined the i... More >>

• Have You Seen... Holiday Subway Platform Robbers

  published Dec 31, 2009

  Some folks decided to get some Christmas money by robbing citizens on train platforms, showing no respect for the season or the city's reputation as an oasis of low crime. These two stuck up a man ... More >>

• Rush Limbaugh "In Serious Condition" at Hospital with Chest Pains; Twitter Blows Up

  published Dec 30, 2009

  Rush Limbaugh is said to have been admitted to The Queen's Medical Center, a hospital in Honolulu, with chest pains and in "serious" condition. The call for medical assistance came around quarter to ... More >>

• Prop Comic Gallagher Laments America's Moral Decline

  published Dec 30, 2009

  Move over, Dennis Miller -- today's conservative comic of conscience is Gallagher, the guy who smashes watermelons onstage. In an interview with The Onion's A.V. Club, he informs us that "people don't... More >>

• TERROR VAN TIMES SQUARE EVACUATE OMG False Alarm

  published Dec 30, 2009

  An abandoned van in Times Square occasioned the evacuation of buildings and streets in the area this morning. The Dodge van was found to contain only clothing, though police might be examining any und... More >>

• Yale-Harvard "Sissies" T-Shirt Pulled, Despite Long Ivy Tradition of Sissydom

  published Dec 30, 2009

  GLBT activists have gotten Yalies to pull a t-shirt prepared for the Harvard-Yale game that quoted F. Scott Fitzgerald on the front, " I think of all Harvard men as sissies," and added on the back, ... More >>

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  Why This Decade Sucked, Reasons #6-#3: Clothes, Yankees, Mets, Racism

  published Dec 30, 2009

  We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. We're behind schedule, so here are four for the price of one. Previous reasons here, here, here, and here... More >>

• Post Debunks Post on Tiger Woods

  published Dec 30, 2009

  In a curious item today, "Tiger Hunt Spurs Tall Tales," the New York Post's Page Six scoffs at the "many rumors of [Woods'] whereabouts." "The least credible story," they assert, "is that he's shacked... More >>

• Christmas Eve Stabber Arrested; Family Says She "Feared for Her Life," Cops Disagree

  published Dec 30, 2009

  There appears still to be a divergence of opinion on that 16-year-old girl who stabbed Thomas Winston on Christmas Eve outside the 21st-Queensbridge subway station. Circumstances made the attack seem... More >>

• Times: Tourists Visit Central Park!

  published Dec 30, 2009

  It's not the mere fact that tourists appeared in New York this week that draws the New York Times' attention -- it's the opportunity this presents for prose-poetry. Picture the scene: "This is a wee... More >>

• This Week in the Voice

  published Dec 30, 2009

  Eek, it 's Michael Musto, in a series of glamorous guises (we're not showing his Susan Boyle because we want you to prepare yourself first) and Running Down the Decade like it's never been run down be... More >>

• Have You Seen... Bushwick Check Cashing Place Robbers

  published Dec 30, 2009

  We realize this video is unlikely to help much, but it was the best NYPD could provide. The men who hit the check-cashing place at 135 Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick on the morning of December 21 are de... More >>

• Free Coffee, Tea on Thruway for "Drowsy" Drivers New Year's Eve

  published Dec 29, 2009

  Well, here's some good news: if you're on the New York State Thruway between 11 p.m. this New Year's Eve and 7 a.m. the following day, and you need to sober up, the Thruway's travel plaza concessionai... More >>

• Falling Moose Head on Lower East Side Draws Lawsuit

  published Dec 29, 2009

  It used to be dangerous to go to the Lower East Side. Now it's all Peaches and Herb. Unless in your revels you get hit on the head by a moose. Raina Kumra says in a negligence lawsuit that on October... More >>

• Monserrate Report Details Leaked; Not Good, But No Sign of Sanctions Yet

  published Dec 29, 2009

  That state senate committee that has been investigating convicted girlfriend-slasher and colleague Hiram Monserrate has drafted a report. It's confidential, but the Times gets some leakage. The repo... More >>

• Mets to Get Jason Bay for 4 Years, $66 Million

  published Dec 29, 2009

  Great, someone who's healthy! Jason Bay, a free agent most recently with the Red Sox, has been signed by the Mets. Last year he batted .276 (he's a career .280) with 36 homers. He's 31 and doesn't ha... More >>

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  Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #7: Guilty Pleasures Without Guilt

  published Dec 29, 2009

  We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Previous reasons here, here, and here. If you had told us, at the beginning of this awful decade, that ... More >>

• 15-Year-Old Crashes SUV in Bronx, Kills 12-Year-Old Passenger

  published Dec 29, 2009

  Another kid has been killed in a local accident. The perpetrator was not, as has become the custom, an allegedly drunk cop or an allegedly drunk mom. It was a 15-year old driver. The unnamed teen mo... More >>

• Mets Sign Pitcher with Shoulder Trouble

  published Dec 29, 2009

  The Mets have signed former Angel Kelvim Escobar. After winning 18 games in 2007, the 33-year-old former star reliever was out due to right labrum surgery all of 2008, and was 0-1 for 2009. The Mets... More >>