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andrea peyser

Andrea Peyser

A born and raised New Yorker, award-winning columnist Andrea Peyser started her career at the Albany Associated Press bureau, did one lost year in Charleston, W.Va., before working for CNN and the Tampa Tribune. She landed at the Post in 1989 and was named columnist in 1993. Her columns have won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Newswomen's Club of New York and the New York Associated Press, which named her columnist of the year for 2005. A graduate of the State University of New York, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

  • Silly goose war in Prospect Pk.

    The geese must die. An epic battle is looming between the forces of goose and evil. New York's militant animal-rights activists are outraged by the massacre this summer of some 400 Canada geese in Brooklyn's...  

    August 30, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Tiger's not a love machine, just a golf machine

    He couldn't say it. Tiger Woods bobbed and weaved and jabbed and feinted, but he just couldn't bring himself to mouth the words. Four little ones: "I still love her." With the ink still wet on his divorce decree,...  

    August 26, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Gals getting lost in 'no man' land

    It's ingrained in the culture. Like divorce, death, taxes and Botox. Men, those creatures who account for half the species, can be pleasant distractions or unhealthy habits. Like too much chocolate. Or excessive...  

    August 23, 2010 12:00 AM
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    City must end this 'cycle' of violence

    It's hell on wheels out there. Police say they're cracking down on demon bicyclists, papering lawless delivery men and two-wheeled street hogs with tickets like expensive confetti. But just 48 hours after the city...  

    August 19, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Generation 'wrecks' on road to ruin

    They're the best and bright est of their generation. Los ers, all. We've turned out a generation of pampered and privileged infants. Young ladies who've developed physically, but never acquired the gene for self...  

    August 16, 2010 12:00 AM
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    Attendants: 'Our hero!'

    It's inhuman up there. Workers, unite! Let's sing the praises of Steven Slater -- the flight attendant who rose from the depths of employee hell to stand up for abused wage slaves everywhere. "Eff you!" "He's a...  

    August 12, 2010 12:00 AM
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    Rudy, it's time to be a real dad

    Can this family be saved? Friends and discarded pals of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani are unanimous -- probably not. When Caroline Giuliani allegedly stuffed more than $100 worth of Sephora snag-free elastics and...  

    August 09, 2010 12:00 AM
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    God knows who's right

    He was the biggest fish caught in the net ensnar ing New York's suspected pedophile priests. Soon, Monsignor Charles Kava nagh may swim free. The affable, popular priest was the top fund-raiser for the New York...  

    August 05, 2010 12:00 AM
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    A new hijacking

    The fix was in. Yesterday, the Constitution was slimed and perverted by a group of Muslim-Americans determined to erect a 13-story mosque and Islamic center a stone's throw from the spot where nearly 3,000...  

    August 04, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Welcome to Blago-rama

    It's showtime for Blago. With his Beatle haircut, salesman's blue suit and devilish grin, Rod Blagoje vich worked the courtroom, the lunchroom, the men's room like a middle-aged rock star hepped up on a caffeine drip....  

    July 26, 2010 12:00 AM
  • 'Spring'time for fiends

    This is how a great city is destroyed -- one degen erate criminal at a time. Those of us who wit nessed New York's de- cline in the '80s and early '90s can feel it coming. And predators, plus the lawyers who love...  

    July 19, 2010 12:00 AM
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    'The Kids' are not all right

    Shh! Hollywood is having a teaching moment -- this time in the bedroom, where, if you're straight, chances are you've been doing it wrong. In the first frames of the new flick "The Kids Are All Right," two boys...  

    July 15, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Become a spy? No skanks!

    Barbara Makuch was a real- life Mrs. Smith -- hot house wife spy in heels. For two decades, Barbara (pictured) spent days enduring the PTA. And nights cavorting as a double agent, working as a spy against hated...  

    July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Not the dune 'buggies' she had in mind

    Ask any vampire. It pays to drink the finest blood. Bedbugs -- nocturnal, bloodsucking monsters that are itching up beds all over the city -- have hopped the Jitney and landed in the Hamptons, where the little...  

    July 09, 2010 12:00 AM
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    No, Lindsay, it's time you 'F' yourself

    Enough! Blubbering, bawling mega boob Lindsay Lohan doesn't deserve a speck of your sympathy or support, nor a dollop of respect. What Linz desperately needs is a swift kick in the teeth, a foot in the backside and a...  

    July 08, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Sticky wicket for this ol' ball game

    They get no respect. From England to India, this game sells out stadiums, commands must-see TV time and drives sports nuts batty. But in this city, cricket -- which resembles baseball played on antidepressants -- is...  

    June 28, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Manipulating kids for the shove of God

    God is dead? At a top Brooklyn middle school, He is. Just when you thought the separation of church and state was more than an option, like paper or plastic, the matter has been settled at MS 51 in Park Slope. And...  

    June 24, 2010 12:00 AM
  • The freak of the week

    Put on your black burqa and hide the kids. The madness has begun. The world this week is in the grips of mass psychosis. From California to New York and all the way to Bahrain, folks are engaged in publicly mourning...  

    June 21, 2010 12:00 AM
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    'La Cage' a folly in school

    A manhattan dad nearly choked on his Wheaties when his 14-year-old son ti midly asked: "Dad, do I have to wear a dress to school?" No joke. These conversations went on in kitchens and living rooms around the...  

    June 17, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Call off the bod squad - this boob has been exposed

    What's that aroma wafting in from Queens? That's the sweaty stench of a lady's desperation as she watches her biological clock wind down, along with her fame. Debrahlee Lorenzana, the man-hungry, plastic-surgery...  

    June 14, 2010 12:00 AM
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    A cruel twist to 'sex' education

    When did New York's most elite public high school turn into a pickup bar for pimple cases? Stuyvesant HS has long been an oasis amid educational drought, producing Nobel laureates and the US attorney general. Nerdy...  

    June 10, 2010 12:00 AM
  • You da man, Mr. Mom!

    The epiphany hit Lance Somerfeld in the nose like a toxic diaper. The Upper East Sider walked into his "Mommy and Me" class with son Jake. Everyone tried not to stare. "There was a lot of talk about milestones. And...  

    June 07, 2010 12:00 AM
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    Double trouble from useless City Council

    If a city councilman, or lady, falls in the woods, can anyone hear? Does anyone care? With apologies to folks who lack mental acuity, it's stupid season at the City Council -- the 51 elected geeks and slackers...  

    June 03, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Dogfight on posh Fifth Ave.

    Woof. This epic drama plays out in a tony, apartment building on Fifth Avenue, where pied-à-terres, some made from two (or three or four) combined spaces, are bordered by Central Park on the west, and to the north by...  

    May 31, 2010 12:00 AM
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    An unwanted immigrant: This demented duchess

    Bloody cheek. It's not every day a com moner is graced with the personage of a card-carry ing, blue-blooded, bone headed duchess. But Sarah Ferguson irritably dragged her hips into the Javits Center yesterday at...  

    May 27, 2010 12:00 AM
  • The peak of stupidity

    Call Jordan Romero "Balloon Boy II." At an age when most lads steal first kisses or perform in humiliating bar mitzvahs, Jordan exists to fulfill the dreams of his dear, old dad. Jordan is 13, barely pubescent....  

    May 24, 2010 12:00 AM
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    Long arm of Allah

    The mosque at Ground Zero has company. As far from Manhattan as one can get before hitting ocean, the people who live in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, have long prided themselves on peace, quiet and exceptional pizza....  

    May 20, 2010 12:00 AM
  • Teachers' reps acting like children

    All that was missing was an elephant. The clowns were present and accounted for. President Obama's education secretary, Arne Duncan, paid a visit yesterday to Brooklyn schools. Even before he arrived, the teachers...  

    May 19, 2010 12:00 AM
  • A hit with lesbians

    To girls in the 'hood, Elena Kagan rocks. Softball-playing sisters and lipstick lesbians who gather in Brooklyn's Park Slope have suffered years of intolerance, leading to a grudging acceptance. But now, life and...  

    May 17, 2010 12:00 AM
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    Mosque madness at Ground Zero

    A mosque rises over Ground Zero. And fed-up New Yorkers are crying, "No!" A chorus of critics -- from neighbors to those who lost loved ones on 9/11 to me -- feel as if they've received a swift kick in the teeth....  

    May 13, 2010 12:00 AM