Toasted Postie (Steve Dunleavy Mugged While Passed Out on NYC Bench)

NY Daily News ^ | May 30, 2003 | Suzanne Rozdeba and Ben Widdicombe

[Mister Magoo]

Toasted Postie

Is this anyway for a 65-year-old "journalist" to act?

Steve Dunleavy - the grizzled New York Post columnist notorious for his alcohol-fueled escapades (on at least one occasion, he's been found unconscious by a co-worker and presumed dead) - suffered a new indignity early yesterday.

Two men mugged him at 3:15 a.m. while he was passed out on a bench on the corner of W. 47th St. and Sixth Ave. - near his favorite bar, Langan's.

Why was he sleeping there? "First of all, I was drunk," he told The News' Richard Weir. "Second paragraph, I was comatose."

According to a newsroom spy, after returning to the Post, Dunleavy vomited near the metropolitan editor's desk.

The perps relieved him of $70 in cash, his UN press card, his American Express card and his Post ID, cops said.

Dunleavy said he kicked one of the thieves "just below the behind." Alerted by a witness, cops collared Christophe Nalls, 33, of Brooklyn, and Carnell Malone, 43, of Manhattan, a few blocks away. They were charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property.

But Dunleavy, who was locked up in Des Moines three years ago for public intoxication, said he sympathized with the muggers.

"I don't want them to go to jail," asserted the pompadoured Prince of Darkness, in Langan's 12 hours later. "I want them to go to John Jay College and tell the cops how they do it."

[sauropod]

I had no idea Dunleavy was a sot! Always used to enjoy his tv reporting on Inside Edition (i think).

[John Beresford Tipton]

Good thing he wasn't sitting on a milk carton!

[ImpotentRage]

Nor did I, although upon reading this I seem to remember something about his drinking. However, drunk or sober he writes great articles and always tells it like it is.

[AppyPappy]

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Frank "Superfly" Sinatra

[dead]

If you press your finger into Dunleavy's cheek, his eyes fill with scotch.

He could drink even the middle-aged Sinatra under the table in the afternoon and bar-hop the night away with Deano.

[SevenofNine]

OMGGGG I didn't know Steve Dunelevy was boozehound WOW

Well I kinda knew that Brit UK Sunday Mirror royal reporter James Whittaker was boozer not Stevie here

WOW

[BartMan1]

Bump for a guy who takes responsibility for his own actions...

[dead]

He's known as a pre-lunch drinker in certain bars in the city.

[SamAdams76]

Oh man, they took his UN press card. Major bummer, dude.

Seriously, the man needs help. I have nothing wrong with a man who likes his drink, after all, I'm one such guy myself. But when you end up passed out on park benches at 3AM and vomiting in your place of work, it's time to make a change. I hope he gets it. Steve's a great columnist and I would like to keep reading his columns for some time to come.

[Old Professer]

Let him buy his own booze, I ain't helping him.

[b4its2late]

This whole story could've been much, much worse.

Dunleavy could've been working for the NY Times.............

[STD]

Picture please?

[Geezerette]

He was on A Current Affair during the time of the Kennedy rape in Palm Springs. He interviewed a "15 minutes of fame" witness who was hanging out in the bar where young Kennedy and his party were celebrating something. Teddy was there, of course.

I can't recall the details, but Steve Dunleavy had some pictures of that young lady (15 minutes of fame lady, not the rape victim) that were "compromising" of her. She tried to get them away from him, and actually bit him on the hand to get the pictures!

Ya, he is one interesting dude!

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[Feiny]

[Feiny]

Here he is in front of the AMITYVILLE House!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"I want them to go to John Jay College and tell the cops how they do it."

How they steal money from passed-out drunks?
These aren't exactly cutting-edge criminal minds here.

[Geezerette]

Thank you for the picture! He looks the same as he did on that old TV show, some 15 years ago!

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[churchillbuff]

Is he buddies with O'Reilly?

[churchillbuff]

Is he buddies with Bill O'Reilly?