Working in one of greater New York's two Coca Cola plants may not be such a Sesame Street-esque utopia for minority employees: Sondra Walker, a Coca Cola merchandiser, claims she was referred to as "Nappy Head" and "Aunt JaMamma," while on the job, with no reprimands for the perpatrator. She also claims one white co-worker wore a Confederate flag on the job, and another responded "What am I, a n----- or something?" when assigned to clean a sewer. more ›

An ex-con who police observed dropping a bag of cocaine in a Greenwich Village pizza shop turned out to have a lot more than just a bag of coke on him. Tyrel Henderson, 22, could probably use a lesson in keeping a low profile: after he was busted with the coke, police allegedly found five more bags of cocaine as well 23 bags of marijuana in his underwear. more ›

Last week we were aghast at how the New York Times and Big Soda combined to heap outrage on the Health Department's photoshopped ad campaign against diabetes. You'd have thought Mayor Bloomberg personally fed this actor into the woodchipper! Now, the Times has spoken with the man who posed for the picture, Cleo Berry, who was apparently "stunned" when he saw his image in the ad for the first time on Friday. "I was beyond shocked. I cried at my computer screen for, like, a minute." More than the crocodile tears he shed for this sandwich ad in which he gets viciously beaten? That is what happened, isn't it? more ›

Coca Cola announced today that the company is killing its much-hyped, poorly-received white cans. So much for saving the polar bears! more ›

Christopher Coke, a drug kingpin who appreciates coke and weed as well as a nice wig, has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering conspiracy. The deal means Coke could spend up to 23 years in prison. more ›

Poor Pepsi. The giant New York-based soda company may be increasingly looking out for our best interests, or saying it is, but its flagship product has been surpassed by Diet Coke and apparently the "super-rich" don't like it. At least that is what Johnson and Johnson heir and professional Richy Rich Jamie Johnson writes in Vanity Fair. more ›

Yesterday, we reported that David Chang is charging $5 for a bottle of Coke at his new restaurant, Duck Lunch, and he doesn't care if you and your food blog think that's straight-up ridiculous. Or does he? The plot thickens! more ›

Another day, another ridiculously priced food that has us worrying that some basic staples of our diet (see: beer, soup) are rapidly becoming luxury goods. Today's drama concerns a humble bottle of Coca-Cola, and one food blogger's anger that Momofuku chef David Chang is charging a whopping $5 for it. more ›

Thanks to a DEA tip, authorities busted two men bringing $3 million worth of cocaine in on a flight from Puerto. According to the Post, Emanuel Rojas and Israel Rodriguez had 92 pounds of coke in their suitcases. (And, yes, the Post had a "white Christmas" reference.) It's unclear if the cocaine was hidden in anything—a few years ago, some women tried sneaking coke in via clothing hangers and recently a man was found with six pounds of coke in a Wii exercise mat. more ›

Through rain, snow, sleet—but especially snow—a Queens mailman delivered the mail and a couple kilos of coke, prosecutors announced yesterday. 49-year-old Felix Soto, who resides in the Bronx, faces up to twenty years in prison on charges of selling a controlled substance and second-degree conspiracy. "The defendant is accused of delivering more than just the mail while carrying out his duties as a U.S. mail carrier," Queens DA Paul Brown said in a statement. more ›

TV and advertising executives saw a silver lining to the whole Charlie Sheen cocaine-fueled escort-romp fiasco last week, believing that it would "open up the show to a whole new segment of young viewers, the 17-to-23 crowd." And they were right: 13.6 million people watched Monday's Two and a Half Men episode called "The Crazy Bitch Gazette." Perhaps viewers were hoping to spot a flake of coke in Sheen's nose, a la Neil Young in the seminal The Band documentary The Last Waltz. more ›

While most people are getting caught up in all of the negative aspects surrounding actor Charlie Sheen's coke-fueled frothing escapade, like sullying the good name of the Eloise Suite, there are a few stalwart Sheen fans who have found the silver lining in the incident. That would include CBS, who think that the high profile hooker-and-drugs binge may boost ratings of Sheen's hit show, Two and a Half Man. "They're quietly thrilled. They think it will open up the show to a whole new segment of young viewers, the 17-to-23 crowd. They feel like it's millions in free publicity," a network insider told the Post. Nothing gets the 17-23 crowd going like having a cocaine-encrusted face! more ›

The Charlie Sheen frothing saga just can't stop, won't stop providing the gory, decadent details. Sheen was actually lucky that his coke-and-prostitute filled bender ended inside the relative confines of the Eloise Suite, since the night almost came to an abrupt end in the bathroom of the fancy Daniel restaurant. Some innocent diner could have easily walked in on Sheen in coke facepaint with his pants around his ankles, after his special lady friend refused to have sex with him in the bathroom. “When the assistant opened the door, there was Charlie standing there naked with cocaine all over his face! He was delusional and just completely lost. Totally out of it,” a source told RadarOnline. more ›

Capri Anderson, the porn actress and escort found naked and locked behind a door in Charlie Sheen's Plaza hotel suite earlier this week, is also Christina Walsh, a 22-year-old girl from Brooklyn by way of the Bronx. Her secret life was kept hidden from her family until she was exposed earlier this week during the media frenzy around Sheen's breakdown at the hotel. more ›

Is this the Daily News' way to get voters to pay attention to the Attorney General race? A recent Quinnipiac poll showed that 81% of Democrats didn't know who they would vote for in the primary next month and only 3% could name on of the five Democrats vying for a shot at Andrew Cuomo's job. But now we bet the 3% will go up, because Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice met with the News' Editorial Board and "admitted Tuesday to dabbling with marijuana and cocaine in her college days." more ›

A rookie cop is suing to be reinstated to the NYPD after he was fired in March for testing positive for cocaine. Alvaro Casado insists he's no coke fiend, he just made the mistake of drinking a cup of Mate de Coca tea the night before he was tested. The South American tea is made from coca leaves and has been known to show up on drug screenings; one study found an average of 4.14 mg of cocaine in a cup of Peruvian coca tea. (No caffeine, though!) more ›

If you're busting ass serving fashionistas all day at Marc Jacobs on Mercer Street, chances are you're familiar with a little drug called cocaine. And odds are you may have been personally introduced to it once or twice. But that doesn't mean that a giant box of the white stuff that was shipped to your workplace—addressed to you—means that you have a drug problem, right? Well, maybe it doesn't. more ›

A cocktail waitress is suing for sexual harassment, claiming that back in 2007 her slimy boss cornered her and demanded to sniff coke off her rear. When that failed, he forcibly used her shoulder! According to court papers, Nicole Slama yelled “No!” when Quo co-owner Gary Malhotra pushed into a closet and made his request. OK, off your [breast] then," he said. Again, the former Applebees waitress and full-time student declined. Recently she’d been warned that the exclusive club’s owners used the manager’s office as their personal den of iniquity. more ›

Maybe Adam Hochfelder should have taken a cue from his yearbook quote: "You could fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” Earlier this month, the formerly high-flying real estate investor was indicted for duping friends into giving him $2.5 million for a development—only to allegedly spend it on debts, his children's private schooling, private jets, legal fees and expensive trips. Now, the NY Times looks at his rapid rise to the top and steep fall. more ›

In 2008 state fatalities due to crack, coke, heroin and other drug overdoses were down to their lowest in nearly a decade. Overdose deaths dropped more than a quarter from the previous year to 666, but don't thank Satan. Officials say an opiate antidote drug called naloxone, distributed by community groups as part of heroin users' emergency kits, may have helped lower the number. The AP reports that overdoses remain the third most common cause of death for New Yorkers between 25 and 34. Still the state's most ubiquitous illegal (though not for long?) drug remains marijuana. more ›

The chef at a Staten Island steakhouse known for being a police hangout has been arrested for selling cocaine to an undercover detective. Thomas "TJ" Gleason, 34, a chef at Ruddy & Dean—which is located just one block from the 120 Precinct and the state Supreme Court building—was hit with felony drug dealing charges after purportedly selling $100 of coke at the bar. more ›

If you're planning on staying at the bar until 8 am on New Year's Day, this might give you pause. About 69 percent of the cocaine recently seized in the United States has been diluted with a de-worming drug for livestock that when consumed by people can cause "fever, swollen glands, painful sores in the mouth and anus, and an infection that won't go away," according to Daily Intel and the SF Chronicle. The drug Levamisole can "significantly reduce the number of white blood cells in the body," causing a condition called agranulocytosis that can leave patients with serious skin conditions that can "make their skin look black." Not everyone who consumes cocaine tainted with Levamisole becomes ill, though poisoning from coke tainted with the anti-parasitic drug is reportedly more likely to affect for women, and is most common when cocaine is smoked as crack. more ›

Smaller-sized disposable cans of carbonated corn syrup water will arrive in NYC next week!!! The 7.5 oz Coca-Cola Mini, which has 50 fewer calories than your fat grandpa's boring old 140-calorie 12 ounce can, was celebrated yesterday by children, parents, and The Radio City Rockettes, who taught families a 90-second, "mini" dance routine on the legendary Radio City Music Hall stage. According to a corporate press release pasted on Popsop, the event was emceed by "award-winning journalist" Laurin Sydney, who said, "[Dancing] is something families can do together or people can do alone, and it not only burns calories but it generates joy." Guess what else generates joy! more ›

A Bronx cop faces a life sentence for using his status as a police officer to help his friend run a cocaine ring. Officer Juan Acosta is accused of aiding his longtime buddy Yorick Rafael Corneil-Perez in distributing drugs by stealing cash from a rival drug courier while pretending to be on police business, providing tips about which streets would be lightly patrolled by officers, and transporting what he believed to be 22 pounds of cocaine from Long Island to the Bronx. more ›

Narcotics investigators seized more than $800,000 and 61 pounds of cocaine worth nearly $1 million in a Williamsburg apartment yesterday. The drugs were hidden under the seat of a portable sauna, and officials say—wait, portable sauna?! Is that really a thing? Turns out yes, it is! It's also one of the last places anyone would want to "chill" while ripping rails, so the suspects probably figured nobody would ever think to look in there for cocaine. Oh well. more ›