Peyser Finds Ratner's Ass, Inserts Nose
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…
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]
12:23 PM,
I tried, next time i’ll do better. thanks for the wet noodle alert!
Dear 10:18 and 10:43,
“Unfortunately, however, you comments goes directly to the point I was trying to make – within two minutes of me posting there is an immediate response of “this guys calling everyone abnormal what’s he going to do next call us retarded?”
I didn’t see that comment. Is that your thought in italics?
11:51,
On a humor scale of 1-10, your attempted impersonation of Andrea Peyser scores a solid 2. Five lashes with a wet noodle for a lack of originality!
I’ll be if you look at the train tracks at Grand Central you’ll likely find some garbage and the occasional hypodermic needle. Maybe they should build the yards there to get rid of the blight.
Hopefully one day soon the right will finally own all of the media so that there will be no opposition to tarnish our mission of world homogenization. Forget these people who chose to live in blighted areas, they are clearly trash.
I agree with 10:18. Its very similar to whats happening in politics right now. The extreme right and left get very shrill and no one pays attention to the moderates.
There are a lot of developers who could have done this project without city money. Don’t you remember that one of them actually bid MORE money for the site than Ratner? Ratner isn’t building the platform, the money from the city is.
Brownstoner…. which small developers can afford to build a platform? Should the city build the platform and increase taxes to cover it? Or maybe we should just cut back on social services to build it….
Hyperbole and brash tone? There’s a guy called Goldstein who fits that description.
Why is it OK for AY opponents to constantly imply that Ratner, Markowitz, Bloomberg, etc. do not care about the borough, but when Peyser says the same about AY opponents it’s suddenly a problem?