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

• Want Elective Officer Filing Deadline for School Council Candidates is Tomorrow

  published Mar 11, 2010

  If you want to run for an office that you actually have a shot at winning, here's you chance: Tomorrow's the deadline to file your candidate application for a seat on either the Citywide Council for ... More >>

• Robbers of 9 Livery Cabs in Brooklyn Sought

  published Mar 11, 2010

  Some people treat livery cabs like prey. The NYPD says these two guys have been hailing liveries, ordering them to locations near Brooklyn College like Clarendon Road and East 37th Street, and upon ar... More >>

• Jose Reyes, Mets Straighten Out Thyroid Story, But -- Questions Remain! (Update: Reyes Out 2-6 Weeks)

  published Mar 11, 2010

  In the latest medical dispute between Mets players and management, Jose Reyes, who was sent up from spring training for a thyroid check, told the world his thyroid was fine, while the Mets said it was... More >>

• Fireman Party Scheduled for March 30th

  published Mar 11, 2010

  Apparently they've done this before, and it went well enough that SingleAndTheCity.Com is reviving this year its "Playing With Fire" Fireman Singles Party at R-Bar on The Bowery on March 30. They prom... More >>

• Maria Alaimo Wins Bad Boob Job Settlement: $3.5 Million

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Staten Island's Maria Alaimo went to trial this week against plastic surgeon Keith S. Berman, whose breast augmentation work on her went tragically awry, leaving her with what was described in court a... More >>

• HBO to Recreate New Orleans' Ninth Ward in Greenpoint (Correction: Not Really)

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Nice catch, Miss Heather: Hollywood's been doing a lot of filming up in Greenpoint, either using McGolrick Park for, uh, park scenes or building sets there, like the Olde Atlantic City scenes Martin ... More >>

• Tavern on the Green Name Belongs to City, Not LeRoys: Judge

  published Mar 10, 2010

  When the LeRoy family lost the contract to run Tavern on the Green last year, they not only auctioned off the fixtures -- they also claimed the right to haul away the name. They even engaged a firm to... More >>

• Hiram Monserrate Attacked with Hiram Monserrate; Cynthia Nixon Trades Carrot for Stick

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Jose Peralta's campaign ad for the special Queens election to replace Hiram Monserrate (who's also running) is out, and if Monserrate is counting on anti-gay support to bring him to victory, it seem... More >>

• Marion Jones Provides Template for Tiger Woods' Comeback

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Formerly one of the world's most respected athletes, now disgraced, asking America to forgive... Well, no, not really. Marion Jones, the sprinter stripped of her Olympic medals for doping and jailed f... More >>

• Scott Brown to Pen His Amazing Story for HarperCollins

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrenth... More >>

• Rooftop Statues Lead to Jokes About People Jumping to Their Deaths

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Sculptor Antony Gormley has brought his successful London installation Event Horizon to New York. 31 statues of male figures are standing on the ground and on rooftops from the Flatiron District to t... More >>

• Meg Whitman, and Everyone Else: Don't Mess with the Media Pool

  published Mar 10, 2010

  California Republican Gubernatorial Meg Whitman had a media event, and then declined to take questions. This sort of thing happens all the time, but Whitman was cornered, or felt like she was, in th... More >>

• Madonna's Daughter Lourdes Is Now a Fashion Designer, For Macy's

  published Mar 10, 2010

  Madonna has done it all. What worlds are left for her to conquerr None. Well, there's always the kid. Madonna has done a deal with Iconix to create a Juniors line for Macy's called -- koff -- Materi... More >>

• Christoph Waltz Does Trololololololololololo (Video)

  published Mar 10, 2010

  On the post-Oscar Jimmy Kimmel Show, Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz provided an actual Trololololololololololo.com parody. We feel so validated! (The fun starts around 1:10.) And then -- he t... More >>

• Hispanic Kids 48% of U.S. Population Growth: Report

  published Mar 10, 2010

  America's going non-white! It's been long reported that the U.S. is projected to be minority-majority by 2042. Now researchers from Cornell and the University of New Hampshire say, "for America's chil... More >>

• David Paterson's Poll Numbers Still Ridiculously Low

  published Mar 10, 2010

  It's just due diligence at this point, but Governor Paterson's latest Quinnipiac poll numbers are as bad as ever: 21 percent job approval, 61 percent disapproval. But voters still don't want him to q... More >>

• Theodore Kurplewski, Alleged Queens Chalice Thief, Arrested

  published Mar 10, 2010

  20-year-old Theodore Kurplewski of 156th Avenue in Queens lives just a few blocks from St. Helen's Church, from which, police believe, he stole a chalice last month. Kurplewski is alleged to have brok... More >>

• Coffee Fever -- Catch It!: Times

  published Mar 10, 2010

  "New York used to be a second-string city when it came to coffee," proclaims the Times. "No longer." Now we have exotic coffees from the Far West like Stumptown (pronounced STUMP-town). And "baristas"... More >>

• America Catching Up to New York in Herpes

  published Mar 10, 2010

  A few years ago, everyone was laughing at New York because it was revealed that fully one in four of us had genital herpes. Well, who's laughing now -- the new national number from the Centers for Dis... More >>

• This Week in the Voice

  published Mar 10, 2010

  David Paterson -- is there anything he can't fuck upr The ridiculous Yankees-tickets scandal wouldn't be such a big thing, observes Tom Robbins, if the governor weren't so inclined to lie about it. T... More >>

• Glenn Beck, Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh Eat the News

  published Mar 09, 2010

  Looking for news on the internetr Why bother, when it's all on TV and radior We aren't talking about TV news or radio news shows, but news generated by TV and radio buffoons and sometimes their guests... More >>

• Pedro Perez, Acting Top Trooper After Harry Corbitt Quit Under Cloud, Quits Himself

  published Mar 09, 2010

  Last week the New York State Police superintendent, Harry Corbitt, after defending his department's conduct in the Paterson-David Johnson scandal -- he said troopers visited Johnson's abuse accuser ju... More >>

• Bill Making Ejaculation, Peeing on Bystanders Sexual Abuse Passes Assembly

  published Mar 09, 2010

  We thank Holla Back New York City for informing us that assembly bill A09939, proposed by assemblywoman Amy Paulin of Scarsdale, has passed the assembly. Paulin has announced its passage, too. The bi... More >>

• Robert Joe Halderman, Accused Letterman Extortionist, to Plead Guilty

  published Mar 09, 2010

  Robert Halderman, the accused extortionist behind the bizarre confession of David Letterman to affairs with staffers, is going to plead guilty. The CBS producer is expected to get six months in prison... More >>

• Dionne Mack-Harvin, Resigning Brooklyn Library Boss, Burned by Chatty Downsizers: News

  published Mar 09, 2010

  Dionne Mack-Harvin was thought to be doing a good job as head of the Brooklyn Public Library, and celebrated as the first African-American major library system head in New York. But last week she quit... More >>