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

• Senate Passes Health Care Bill; Democrats Doomed, Say Rightbloggers

  published Dec 24, 2009

  The Senate passed its version of the health care bill this morning on a straight party vote. The bill now has to be reviewed by the House of Representatives and reconciled with its own bill, which wil... More >>

• Broadway Triangle Rezoning Blocked

  published Dec 24, 2009

  On Monday the city council approved a rezoning plan for the Broadway Triangle in North Brooklyn that would move out several small manufacturing businesses to make way for affordable housing units. Y... More >>

• Have You Seen... Accused Rapist

  published Dec 24, 2009

  A 27-year-old old woman told police that last Friday this man, Santiago Coba Sanchez, aka Jose Louis Hernandez, raped her on East 40th between Madison and Park. Police are taking her story seriously e... More >>

• Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, After 23 Years, to Remain Unmarried, See Other People

  published Dec 23, 2009

  They were never married, which made the 23 years Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon spent together that much more charming and countercultural. Now Sarandon's rep announces that the Hollywood stars and l... More >>

• Yule Log Returns to WPIX on Christmas

  published Dec 23, 2009

  We knew you were worried about it, so we rush to tell you that WPIX has announced that it will air the Yule Log this Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The Log debuted in 1966, was discontinued in 199... More >>

• New Plan to Defeat Health Care Bill: GOP Lawsuits!

  published Dec 23, 2009

  It looks like the Democrats might pass some sort of health care bill after all, so the badly outnumbered Republicans are looking at new strategy to block it: make pork illegal. "Attorneys general in... More >>

• Killer' of Abortion Doc George Tiller Has "Necessity" Plea Rejected

  published Dec 23, 2009

  When Scott Roeder (pictured) gunned down Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in May, several conservatives thought he'd done a great thing. Roeder thinks so too, and tried to enter as a "necess... More >>

• CAIR Launches "I Am Muslim, I am American" Campaign in Times Square

  published Dec 23, 2009

  Just in time for Christmas, The Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) has launched an "I am Muslim, I am American" ad campaign. The slideshow-like presentation, with portraits of Muslim America... More >>

• Father of Slain Mom Lakisha Scriven's Kids Wants Them Back

  published Dec 23, 2009

  They still don't know who did the execution-style shooting of Lakisha Scriven on December 7 in The Bronx, but the father of Scriven's two daughters, who had been questioned by police about it, says Sc... More >>

• Balloon Boy Dad Richard Heene Gets 90 Days, Fresh Round of Humiliation

  published Dec 23, 2009

  Did you forget about Richard Heene, father/perpetrator of Balloon Boyr We haven't been seeing him on many best-of-the-year lists, but he's back in the national spotlight today, courtesy of a Fort Col... More >>

• Study: Non-Whites More Likely to Be Arrested for Weed Than Whites

  published Dec 23, 2009

  We already know that New York is the Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World, and that the administration of alleged marijuana user Mayor Bloomberg has greatly increased the hassling of users. Now a Que... More >>

• Penn Station Suffers "Voltage" Problem; Trains Were Stopped, Now Delayed

  published Dec 23, 2009

  If you were expecting someone from Jersey and they were taking the train, here's why they're late: there was a power outage at Penn Station that screwed up Amtrak and New Jersey Transit service to and... More >>

• Have You Seen... Bank of America ATM Skimmers

  published Dec 23, 2009

  These two fellows worked up a nice scam at the Bank of America ATM at 315 Lafayette Street. They altered the machine to obtain customers' personal information, and then transferred that information... More >>

• Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #9: Artists Joined The Farm League

  published Dec 23, 2009

  We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Reason #10 is here. This is #9.   Name your favorite artists of the past decade. Tough one, hu... More >>

• This Week in the Voice

  published Dec 22, 2009

  Hey it's the Voice Film Poll! It's a world of Hurt Locker! J. Hoberman provides historical perspective for the 94-critic consensus, maps the decade in film, and names his own Top Ten. Anthony Kaufma... More >>

• Joe Strummer Died 7 Years Ago Today

  published Dec 22, 2009

  We loved that guy. ... More >>

• Suit Says Cipriani Stiffed Servers; Cipriani Says Suit's "Desperate"

  published Dec 22, 2009

  When folks hosting glittering parties at Cipriani 42nd Street, Cipriani Wall Street, Cipriani 23rd Street, and the Rainbow Room pay the 23 percent "service charge" on their banqueting bills, do they t... More >>

• Michael Jackson Saves Slow News Day with FBI Kid Sex, Death Threat Files

  published Dec 22, 2009

  It's Christmas Eve's Eve's Eve and we got nothing, so thank Santa for the Freedom of Information Act, which got the FBI to release documents showing that the feds were looking into Michael Jackson's l... More >>

• Polanski Sues Mags for Invasion of Privacy, Has Balls of Purest Titanium

  published Dec 22, 2009

  If you were out on bail for a 31-year-old statutory rape case, wouldn't you be trying to keep a low profiler Not Roman Polanski! The Oscar winning child-fucker is suing French magazines VSD and Voic... More >>

• Staten Island Provides Yuletide Suicide-Attempt Story

  published Dec 22, 2009

  Here's a holiday perennial we expected would come around eventually: the Christmas suicide. Fortunately the victim has in this case survived. Christopher Lombardo, 47, of Staten Island set himself o... More >>

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  Arnold Stang, 1918-2009

  published Dec 22, 2009

  Arnold Stang has passed at 91. You may recall him from movies (The Man With the Golden Arm), the voice of Top Cat, and old Chunky commercials. He is in death described as a "nerdy" comedian, though h... More >>

• Council Approves Broadway Triangle Rezoning

  published Dec 22, 2009

  Much has been made of the city council's recent triple override of Mayor Bloomberg: They've answered his vetoes with second votes overruling him on the Kingsbridge Armory mall, the five-minute parking... More >>

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  Here's Why Giuliani's Bugging Out of 2010: He Couldn't Win

  published Dec 22, 2009

  After months of vacillation and some tantalizing late rumors, it appears Rudolph Giuliani isn't going to run for the Statehouse or the Senate next year. He's expected to endorse Rick Lazio for the Sen... More >>

• Council Approves 70 New Street Names -- Including Sean Bell Way

  published Dec 22, 2009

  The city council has passed a bill renaming a three-block stretch of Liverpool Street in Queens Sean Bell Way, after the young groom-to-be shot dead by police nearby in 2006. Mayor Bloomberg is expect... More >>

• Judge: NYPD Must Give Up Race Data on Cop Shootings

  published Dec 21, 2009

  While the city council debates the naming of a street after Sean Bell, several other black people shot at by cops are turning up in the news. The New York Civil Liberties Union has been asking the NYP... More >>