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

• The Wit and Wisdom of David Paterson

  published Dec 11, 2009

  Has anyone noticed that, for all his dour warnings on the economy, maudlin self-representation in ads, and rage at being mocked by Saturday Night Live, David Paterson is a bit of a jokesterr Today he... More >>

• More Bad News from 305 McGuinness in Greenpoint

  published Dec 11, 2009

  305 Guinness aka Lofts 305, one of the troubled nondos that have devolved from condos in Greenpoint since the market tanked, gets a new slam from a correspondent to Miss Heather of NY Shitty: an alleg... More >>

• Have You Seen... Holiday Knife Robber, Downtown

  published Dec 11, 2009

  Just a heads-up: this guy is sticking people up with a knife downtown. He robbed two men in front of Chase Banks on West 4th Street and on Fifth Avenue near 14th Street, and another on Hudson near We... More >>

• Have You Seen... Office Laptop, iPhone Thief

  published Dec 10, 2009

  Looks like one of the growth industries in our New Depression is stealing stuff from work -- not your own work, someone else's. Last month NYPD put out an APB on a laptop stealer robbing offices in th... More >>

• Bloomberg Resumes Indian Smoke War on Long Island Reservation

  published Dec 10, 2009

  The Unkechaug Indian Nation, gathered on the Poospatuck Indian Reservation on Long Island, maintains it has treaty rights to sell tax-free smokes, but the Bloomberg Administration has been battling th... More >>

• Rightbloggers Agree With, Denounce Obama Nobel Speech

  published Dec 10, 2009

  Rightblogger reactions to Obama's Nobel Prize Speech are coming in: Since the President forthrightly defended his Afghanistan surge before the Peaceniks, they all loved it. Ha! Just kidding. They mos... More >>

• Au Revoir, Editor & Publisher, Kirkus Reviews; AJR Scales Back

  published Dec 10, 2009

  Editor & Publisher, for 108 years the trade publication of the publication trade, is being closed by Nielsen Business Media. So is Nielsen's 76-year-old pre-publication book-review service Kirkus Rev... More >>

• CD Peddler Shoots, Is Shot Dead at Marriott Marquis (Updated)

  published Dec 10, 2009

  People are frequently shot in New York, but in this instance the victim was allegedly a peddler with a gun, he was shot by cops, and this all took place in the guest drop-off zone of the Marriott Marq... More >>

• 8 New York City Schools Among U.S. News' Top 100

  published Dec 10, 2009

  We're always bitching about city schools, but no less than eight of our high schools are listed among U.S. News & World Reports' "Gold Medal" 100 Best High Schools in the country today. They are Newco... More >>

• Showbiz News: Liza Settles Harassment Suit; Wicked Beatdown; Jackie O-Peter Cook Affairr

  published Dec 10, 2009

  M'hammed Soumayah, variously described as a chaffeur, bodyguard, and right-hand man to Liza Minnelli, has settled a sexual harassment suit against the Cabaret star. He alleged that she threatened to f... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Moe Tucker: Young Artists Can't Afford New York Today

  published Dec 10, 2009

  Three surviving members of the Velvet Underground -- Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, and latecomer Doug Yule (Sterling Morrison is deceased; John Cale just absent) -- did Q&A at the New York Public Library on T... More >>

• Obama Accepts Nobel; Rightbloggers Denounce Him for Some Damn Thing

  published Dec 10, 2009

  President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo last night. He acknowledged that previous recipients had been "far more deserving of this honor than I," defended Afghanistan as a "just war" and... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  War on Christmas Update: Boycotts, "CHRIST-mas Tree" Give Jesus Team an Advantage

  published Dec 10, 2009

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• Jenny 8. Lee @ NYT RIP

  published Dec 09, 2009

  Jennifer 8. Lee, who does many of the more enjoyable stories at the New York Times, has taken the buyout offered by the Times to veterans whose salary requirements they now consider onerous. It is cus... More >>

• Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place

  published Dec 09, 2009

  The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page, at ... More >>

• Paterson Says New York's Broke, Stops Payments; Nobody Cares

  published Dec 09, 2009

  We know nobody cares, but New York State is out of money. Or so the Governor says. Governor Paterson and his budget director warned over a week ago that we were about to go into the deep red, but the... More >>

• Mayor Celebrates Hanukkah With Giant Floral Menorah

  published Dec 09, 2009

  The holidays just aren't complete without a giant floral menorah. Mayor Bloomberg had his Annual Hanukkah party at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park last night, to which florist Monica H... More >>

• Organizers: New Year's Party Definitely Tavern on the Green's Last Hurrah

  published Dec 09, 2009

  If you want to see Tavern of the Green in all its Tiffany splendor, you better do it before or during the big New Year's Eve Party they're holding: Gordon Von Broock of NYEVE, the party's organizers, ... More >>

• Man Arrested in Strangled Queens Mom's Death; Said to Be Father of Her Child

  published Dec 09, 2009

  When 36-year-old Jamaica Smith, recently moved to Queens from Memphis, Tennessee, went missing in late November, it was all very mysterious. Family members allegedly told police about an "unidentified... More >>

• Hitler's Back in the News!

  published Dec 09, 2009

  OK, this is the weirdest Downfall parody we've seen so far. Maybe it's because we're all fascists now, but Adolf Hitler is getting a lot of ink these day. A Hitler art book -- not a Taschen thing,... More >>

• "Hipsters" Come of Age in Bike Lane Battle

  published Dec 09, 2009

  The cycling enthusiasts who repainted a bike lane in Williamsburg and were arrested for it early this week have, we think, achieved a journalistic watershed in mainstreaming the use of the word "hipst... More >>

• Andrew Breitbart Responds to Our Coverage (and the Whole, Rotten MSM's) of the ACORN Story

  published Dec 09, 2009

  Image (cc) shalf. Andrew Breitbart of Big Government, the web site that ran the ACORN pimp/prostitute videos, leading to the investigation that cleared ACORN of illegal activity in the events there... More >>

• Insurgent John Samuelsen Beats Toussaint Loyalist in Bitter TWU Election

  published Dec 09, 2009

  When Roger Toussaint, President of Transit Workers Union Local 100 during the 2005 subway strike, left his duties in February to work for the international TWU, he handed them off to Curtis Tate, vice... More >>

• Springsteen Won't Play Christie's Inaugural; Supports Gay Marriage Instead

  published Dec 09, 2009

  Incoming Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie asked Jersey bard Bruce Springsteen to play at his January 19 inauguration. The Boss declined. Christie's people say "he doesn't want to get ... More >>

• Daily News Enlivens Morning with Lesbian Sex Teacher Story

  published Dec 09, 2009

  We hope the PC scolds out there are happy. For years they've clucked their tongues every time a female teacher was found having sex with a male student. And now look what's happened: the frustrated fe... More >>