We didn’t see Post columnist Andrea Peyer‘s article until late in the day yesterday. Given the extreme hyperbole and brash tone, it’s amazing it wasn’t clearly labeled more clearly as an opinion piece. But whatever. Here’s a taste of what she wrote:

It’s about freaking time. Three long and frustrating years have passed since I walked with developer Bruce Ratner along Brooklyn’s horrendously blighted Atlantic Yards – and we were greeted by a pile of seven discarded hypodermic syringes…After navigating miles of red tape and enduring fierce protests led by dilettante celebrities who don’t give a rat’s rump about the borough of Brooklyn, construction has started.

Now, it’s one thing to disagree with the anti-Yards contingent about whether this will be a good thing for Brooklyn, but to cast them collectively as not caring about the borough is plain silly. Peyser’s tough-gal prose (all the more annoying in contrast to her starry-eyed depiction of Ratner) is just another example of the class warfare PR campaign that Ratner has managed to wage. All those syringes she mentions seeing on the ground could have been equally well removed by builders developing this area organically without the crutch of eminent domain.
Score One For The Good Guys [NY Post]
Re: Score One For The Good Guys [No Land Grab]
Andrea Peyser Spies a Rat [AY Report]