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

• Jayson Williams Pleads Guilty to 2002 Shooting, Faces 18 Months

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Former Nets star Jayson Williams today to pleaded guilty to shooting and killing his limo driver in 2002. The charge in this case is aggravated assault, rather than the reckless manslaughter charge o... More >>

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  Harold Ford Jr., with Kirsten Gillibrand in Sight, Flips for Gay Marriage

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Transplanted Tennessean Harold Ford Jr., reported looking at a run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the upcoming Democratic primary, seems to realize he's not in Dixie anymore, and has reversed h... More >>

• City Goes After Salt in Food, So Far on a "Voluntary" Basis

  published Jan 11, 2010

  The city is introducing "voluntary" guidelines on the amount of salt to be included in processed and packaged foods. These guidelines, which call for sodium content to be reduced by as much as 25 p... More >>

• Report: Paterson Wants to Legalize Ultimate Fighting to Raise Cash for State

  published Jan 11, 2010

  If you're having trouble making a living in the current economy, good news: Soon Governor Paterson will allow you to fight to the near-death for pay in New York. Alternately, you can just watch othe... More >>

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  Harry Reid's "Negro" Remarks Spur Another Rightblogger Seminar on Who The Real Racists Are

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Mark Halperin's and John Heilemann's new book Game Change about the 2008 Presidential campaign is full of hilarious revelations. Among these is the news that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Har... More >>

• Bloomberg Tags Up

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Our colleague Zach Baron alerts us to an incident in which Mayor Bloomberg defined deviancy down: On a New Year's visit to youth development center The Point CDC in The Bronx, Bloomberg tagged a graff... More >>

• Giuliani Criticizes Obama for Allowing Crotch-Bomber "Domestic Attack" When Bush Had None (um, 9/11r)

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Rudolph Giuliani went on Good Morning America and announced that "we had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama," seeming to forget the World Trade Center attacks that made him Am... More >>

• 4 Livery Cab Robberies in Jamaica in 9 Days; Suspect Photos Released

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Livery cab drivers have it tough. You may recall a little epidemic of livery cab driver shootings last summer, and various robberies. Now, four hacks have been robbed or threatened with robbery on 106... More >>

• Experts: New York Commercial Real Estate Is In The Crapper

  published Jan 08, 2010

  2009 was apparently a very, very, very bad year for commercial realtors in New York. Eastern Consolidated Real Estate Investment Services reports that commercial property sales for the year were down... More >>

• Elvis Impersonators, One Mentally Challenged, Pay Tribute to the King's Birthday

  published Jan 08, 2010

  To celebrate Elvis Presley's 75th birthday, Free Family Residences and Essential Enterprises (FREE), which cares for people with disabilities, brought some Elvis impersonators to Osso Bucco on Unive... More >>

• Homeless Man Luis Reyes Found Dead in Abandoned Staten Island House; May Have Frozen

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Homeless man found dead A homeless man was found dead in an abandoned Staten Island house on Sunday. Terry Troia of local charity Project Hospitality says the man, a Mexican day laborer named Luis R... More >>

• Video: "What's New, Pussycatr" Performed With Disturbing Aggressiveness

  published Jan 08, 2010

  It would be scarier than the Legion trailer if you went to karaoke night and this guy -- who can be quite mild when he wants to be -- suddenly went into this psycho-sexual Tom Jones act. This pheno... More >>

• Quintin Cedeno, Queens Principal, Charged with Asking Students for Sex, Fondling

  published Jan 08, 2010

  The principal of the High School for Construction Trades, Engineering and Architecture in Queens, Quintin Cedeno, sounded like an good, engaged educator when the Daily News talked to him about the sch... More >>

• Missing Person: Farraha Senquiz, 13

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Farraha Senquiz, 13, recently left her home in the South Bronx wearing black Ugg boots, blue jeans, and a purple-and-black plaid fur-trim coat, and has not been seen since. She is described in "poor m... More >>

• Have You Seen... Staten Island SUV Smash-and-Grabber

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Well, here's an industrious, if misguided, little robber: He drove an SUV through the window of a laundromat on Hylan Boulevard in Staten Island, then popped in through the hole he made and stole all ... More >>

• Terror Suspect Crashes on Whitestone Expressway (Update: Two Arrested)

  published Jan 08, 2010

  Last night the FBI raided the home and seized the passport of Bosnian immigrant Adis Medunjanin; later, police arrested him when he got into a crack-up on the Whitestone Expressway. Medunjanin had b... More >>

• White House Crotch-Bomber Report: "The Dots Were Never Connected"

  published Jan 07, 2010

  The White House report on the attempted underwear-bomb attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (pictured) on a Delta airliner during Christmas contains a lot of praise for America's "counter-terrorism com... More >>

• Video: TSA Guard Left Newark Airport Post, Let Man Walk Through Checkpoint, Outraging Nation

  published Jan 07, 2010

  This video... is raw! And shows "shows guard leaving post for minute and a half," says the New York Post! Questions... remain! Now that his malfeasance has been revealed on video, Ruben Hernandez... More >>

• Susan Molinari to Challenge Kirsten Gillibrandr

  published Jan 07, 2010

  The White House has effectively rebuffed all Democratic challenges to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, save for the exception of Jonathan Tasini and (possibly) Harold Ford Jr. And having lost Rudolph Gi... More >>

• Nude Jogger Threatens White House; Reagan Grandson Taken Into Custody

  published Jan 07, 2010

  At last, a threat to America's security has been swiftly dealt with. A man who was jogging nude near the White House last night was apprehended at the scene and taken into custody. The President was i... More >>

• Have You Seen... Nicely-Dressed Bank Robber

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Two guys hit three banks on Monday, making them our first bank robbers of the year; this guy, black and in his 50s, and his accomplice are so far as we know the last ones of 2009. On December 28, they... More >>

• Andrew Cuomo Subpoenas E-mails, Etc. in Pedro Espada Investigation

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Attorney general Andrew Cuomo has subpoenaed a bunch of files relating to Soundview Health Care Network, the medical business empire of state senator Pedro Espada, Jr (pictured). E-mails, text messa... More >>

• David Letterman Joke About Transgender Amanda Simpson Draws Fire

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Some LGBT groups are enraged that this joke about transgender Commerce appointee Amanda Simpson appeared on the David Letterman show this week, and are demanding that he apologize for it. Quick reca... More >>

• Video: Iggy Pop Car Insurance Commercial

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Just in case you had any illusions left. It was clever of them to create a deranged puppet to represent the Iggy stereotype, and remind us that whatever wildness we may feel in ourselves is merely ... More >>

• Child-Rape Suspect Rev. Philip Joubert Now Charged with Assault, Too

  published Jan 07, 2010

  In November Rev. Phillip Joubert, pastor of the Community Baptist Church in Bayside, was arrested on charges of raping a 13-year-old relative -- possibly his daughter, though reports have been sketchy... More >>