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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2010 Stories by Roy Edroso

• Antwon Tanner of One Tree Hill Gets 3 Months for Social Security Fraud

  published Jan 14, 2010

  "hey yall sorry i aint been on here in a while," tweeted Antwon Tanner of the CW series One Tree Hill on January 8. "its been hectic." No doubt; yesterday he was sentenced to three months in prison in... More >>

• Working Families Party Trial Starts; Debi Rose Treasurer Disavows Finance Affidavit

  published Jan 14, 2010

  The suit brought by Randy Mastro and others against Data and Field Services, accusing DFS of providing (and Staten Island councimember Debi Rose, pictured, of accepting) in-kind contributions to Work... More >>

• Martha Coakley-Scott Brown Race May Turn on Shoving Incident

  published Jan 13, 2010

  Here's video that shows Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack being muscled by a Democratic staffer as he tries to ask questions of Senatorial candidate Martha Coakley, who faces a special electio... More >>

• Pat Robertson: Haitian Earthquake Caused by a "Pact To the Devil"

  published Jan 13, 2010

  The cataclysmic 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has "flattened" the capital city, Port-Au-Prince, and killed perhaps more than a hundred thousand people*. National Geographic says it's the strongest earthq... More >>

• John Lanorith, Staten Island Liquor Store Killer, Pleads Guilty, Gets Hope of Parole

  published Jan 13, 2010

  Back in May of 2008, a man came into Elgudzha Koyenishvili's Staten Island liquor store, shot him dead, and stole the cash register. Cops traced and found the getaway pickup truck, whose owner told th... More >>

• West Park Presbyterian Gets Landmarked -- and Locks Bums Out of Its Doorways

  published Jan 13, 2010

  After the 121-year-old West Park Presbyterian Church was landmarked this week, the New York Post complained in an editorial -- not only because the designation seems to preclude a real estate deal th... More >>

• Have You Seen... Camera-Smashing Bushwick Store Robbers

  published Jan 13, 2010

  Around 4:30 a.m. on Monday three guys, one with a gun, robbed a deli on Evergreen Avenue in Bushwick, assaulting a clerk, a customer, and (as the video shows) a surveillance camera, which nonetheles... More >>

• Andrew Cuomo's Office: "Evidence" Espada Companies Broke Tax, Campaign Finance Laws

  published Jan 13, 2010

  Attorney general Andrew Cuomo's investigation of Soundview, the medical business run by state senator Pedro Espada Jr., is getting bigger. His office released an "affirmation" by Mitra Hormozi, one ... More >>

• Sam Roweis, NYU Professor and Math Star, Leaps to Death

  published Jan 13, 2010

  37-year-old math wizard Sam Roweis had an impressive resume -- Cal Tech, MIT, a "rising star" at the University of Toronto, Google; tons of grants, fellowships, and honors. He joined the NYU faculty ... More >>

• Kenrussell Salvador, Ultrasound Tech, Accused of Raping Patient

  published Jan 13, 2010

  A Staten Island sonogram operator is accused of raping a patient while she was under medication. The patient, 30, came to the Richmond University Medical Center on December 11 complaining of abdominal... More >>

• Google Claims Attack in China, Says It May Pull Out; "Uncensored Stuff" Reported

  published Jan 13, 2010

  After a bizarre hacking/spying incident, Google announced yesterday that it was "no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn," their Chinese outlet. Google said they'd start imp... More >>

• Son of Governor Paterson Arrested, Later Released; Suspicious Card Said to Be Cause

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Never rains but it pours: Alex Paterson (far left), 15-year-old son of our beleaguered Governor Paterson, has been questioned by police. Liz Benjamin says the boy was found shooting dice (!) near Be... More >>

• Conan O'Brien Won't Move; Change of Career Imminentr

  published Jan 12, 2010

  In an alternately funny and maudlin statement, Conan O'Brien announces he will not accept the pushed-back time slot into which NBC wants to shove him to accommodate the new 11 p.m. Jay Leno show. "... More >>

• New Tricks Against Bedbugs: Dry Ice Pet Dish, "Bedbug Saunas"

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Despite the founding this year of the city council's Bed Bug Advisory Board, bedbugs are still a problem in New York. WABC proposed yesterday a "less than $20" solution developed by a Rutgers entomol... More >>

• Hiram Monserrate Should Be Expelled or Censured: State Senate Panel

  published Jan 12, 2010

  AP reports that the state senate panel which closed its investigation of senator Hiram Monserrate last month has rendered its verdict: Monserrate, who was convicted of misdemeanor assault of his girl... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Google Street View May Get Ad Updates -- Whether There's an Ad or Not

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Google Street View maps are fun and informative, and soon they may be be an ad venue as well: PC World reports Google has obtained a patent on technology for "identifying groups of features in an onli... More >>

• Have You Seen... Bronx New Year's Day Stabber

  published Jan 12, 2010

  This fellow must have had a rough New Year's Eve. Around 5 a.m. on New Year's Day, he was hanging out in a food market near the corner of U.S. 1 and Pelham Parkway, where he got into a dispute with ... More >>

• Atlantic Yards Brings "Permanent" Street Closings; Ratner Writes a Letter; Haier In On Barclays Center

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Atlantic Yards Report reproduces a notice that says, starting on February 1, stretches of Pacific Street and Fifth Avenue within the footprint will be "permanently closed," presumably in preparation... More >>

• Susan Molinari Out of Senate Race

  published Jan 12, 2010

  Former congresswoman Susan Molinari, allegedly encouraged by Rudolph Giuliani, said last week she was looking at a run for the GOP nomination against senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Now she's looking away... More >>

• Harold Ford Jr. "Strongly Considering" Senate Race; Conservatives Give Him a Hand

  published Jan 12, 2010

  High Democratic operatives warned Steve Israel and others off challenges to Kirsten Gillibrand, but Harold Ford is unbossed, dammit, at least by the current bosses. The New York Post gleefully affords... More >>

• Have You Seen... Teen Robber in Bushwick

  published Jan 11, 2010

  If this kid looks nervous, it's because he's about to rob a deli with a gun. He pulled the job on Friday around noon at a store on the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Palmetto Street in Bushwick. He... More >>

• Sarah Palin Falls to "Journalist," Last Rung Before "Blogger"

  published Jan 11, 2010

  That Game Change book that revealed Harry Reid's damaging "Negro" comment also revealed damaging things about Sarah Palin -- for instance, that the former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate "coul... More >>

• Subway Newsstand Robbery Spree Now at 7; Force Sometimes Used

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Remember that guy who recently robbed a couple of subway newsstands -- one on Christmas Day, the other on New Year'sr Apparently he doesn't just work holidays. Police have him tied to five more such... More >>

• 5 Things Conan O'Brien Can Do Besides Fight/Accept the Jay Leno Putsch

  published Jan 11, 2010

  The Jay Leno-Conan O'Brien thing is all over the place, with Leno being invited to move his underwatched show from 10 to 11 p.m. and Tonight Show host O'Brien, facing a later start and feeling the squ... More >>

• Pete King Decides Against Senate Race

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Lots of movement in the 2010 Senate race today: shortly after imported prospect Harold Ford Jr. switched to a pro-gay-marriage stand in probable anticipation of a run at Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete King ... More >>