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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.

Latest Columns

  • Executive ‘sweet’

    He lost me at “sweetie.” President Obama wielded the cringe-worthy “S” word at the first presidential debate. He wasn’t talking to Mitt Romney.  He also was not addressing some groupie or reporter — often one and the...   October 25, 2012

    From National
  • LT child vic tells tale of abuse

    What a guy! Retired Giants Hall of Fame linebacker Lawrence Taylor sure knows how to treat a lady. Lying naked in a Rockland County Holiday Inn with abused child Cristina Fierro, who’d been beaten and bloodied by her...   October 24, 2012

    From Local
  • Hey, Post: ‘You ruined my life’

    We’ve been dumped! On paper, Larry Greenfield is the catch of the millennium. At 47, the never-married retired trader from Plainview, LI, is a millionaire many times over. Standing 6-foot-2, he still has his hair (well,...   October 22, 2012

    From Local
  • Bam, get mad for Malala

    She’s just a kid. My heart is ripped to pieces for Malala Yousafzai. Just 14, she is beautiful, poised and precocious beyond her years. She is also brave. Were Malala growing up in the United States, she would be a...   October 18, 2012

    From National
  • Kerik gets cut down to size

    How the mighty have fallen. Disgraced and greedy, former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik schlumped into the Bronx courthouse in bright orange prison T-shirt and navy blue jumpsuit, his shiny, bald head...   October 16, 2012

    From Bronx
  • Tinseltown is turning on Bam

    Look out. Hollywood is having a Republican crisis. Once America’s most dependable bastion of liberal blather, the land of make believe has gone rogue. Each week, the new movie season brings another defection to Camp...   October 15, 2012

    From National
  • The creep show

    Delusional Jerry Sandusky strolled into the courtroom yesterday as if it were the Penn State locker room after a gridiron victory — not to be sentenced for grooming, seducing and raping boys who worshipped his miserable...   October 10, 2012

    From National
  • NYPD scapegoat never had a shot

    It makes no sense. Thirteen years after he fatally shot Amadou Diallo in a dark Bronx doorway, mistaking the African immigrant’s wallet for a gun, Officer Kenneth Boss got his gun back.  Detective Gescard “Jesse’’...   October 08, 2012

    From Local
  • As Lo as a ma can go

    When will the party end for Dina Lohan? It’s hard to find a speck of sympathy for Lindsay Lohan, who has lately moved her one-woman crazy act from LA to New York, cutting a swath of destruction, depravity and potential...   October 04, 2012

    From National
  • ‘Alienating’ good moms

    Will the madness ever end? Kelly Rutherford is a celeb who plays socialite Lily van der Woodsen on TV’s “Gossip Girl.’’ But at heart, she’s just a mom. And on Friday, this hurting mother sprinted from the “Gossip’’ set...   October 01, 2012

    From Local
  • Out of (birth) control

    It was just a matter of time. City schools — where kids are lectured about the joys of anal and oral sex before age 12 — have stepped up their game. Your taxpayer-funded high schools, where students may score a free...   September 27, 2012

    From National
  • Spamming on our dime

    Your tax dollars at work. Just when you thought the transit system couldn’t be any more wasteful . . .  A high-ranking employee of the MTA was found spamming thousands of employees — during working hours, on public...   September 24, 2012

    From National
  • NY snobs go to war

    It’s a turf war out there. Forget about the 1 percent. The stinking rich — call them the one-tenth of 1percenters — are flexing slim muscles and fat checkbooks in skirmishes designed to get this city’s freeloaders out...   September 20, 2012

    From National
  • Appeasing thugs by trampling our rights

    This is no joke. It’s a matter of free speech. In an episode as shameful as it is un-American, obscure LA filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was picked up by Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies acting like jackbooted thugs....   September 17, 2012

    From International
  • Eat it and weep, folks!

    It’s a sign of dangerous curves ahead. Anorexia nervosa is so 2005. Today, muffin tops, neck rolls and beer bellies are mortally hip. In these days of gluttony and pint-size porker Honey Boo Boo, we’re doomed. At a time...   September 13, 2012

    From National
  • Israel haters in O’s party

    President Obama has a Jewish Problem. The left’s hostility to Israel is ancient news. (Even members of the pathetic Park Slope Food Co-op tried to ban Israeli-made products from the store.) But in a revealing episode...   September 10, 2012

    From National
  • New York’s own ‘Paterno’

    He’s the shame of New York. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is the Joe Paterno of the state capital. For decades, he has presided over the Albany cesspool, where uninvited touching, underage binge drinking — and alleged...   September 06, 2012

    From National
  • A kinky world of hurt

    Wake up and smell the latex, New Yorkers. It’s the worst-kept secret since the invention of the open-palm spanking. Throughout this city, from luxurious salons to dingy dungeons, someone is getting smacked around. And...   August 20, 2012

    From Local
  • You can’t hide your Ryan eyes

    This is sexual progress? America just endured The Year of the Bimbo. Attractive Republican women, from Rep. Michele Bachmann to Sarah Palin, were demonized and derided by lefty comic Bill Maher with an unprintable word...   August 16, 2012

    From National
  • Vast wasteland for gay rights

    Be QUIET. Your TV is having a gay crisis. From here to Hollywood, we’re witnessing an explosive increase in the number of same-sex-loving characters. Trouble is, you would not want to touch these gals and guys while...   August 13, 2012

    From Local
  • Like sheep to the $laughter

    Time to man up, New Yorkers.  Out-of-town yokels can grow a pair, too. New York is a tough town. A place where savvy city-dwellers wouldn’t dream of plunking down 20 bucks on a three-card monte game. And where a...   August 09, 2012

    From National
  • Make a swift exit, Taylor!

    Taylor, the Kennedys are just not that into you. I pray that lovely Taylor Swift snaps to her senses and runs like the wind from the mob of rotten drivers and ruthless, overentitled hooligans who dominate a family...   August 06, 2012

    From Local
  • Chicken lips are scarce

    This was billed as the greatest protest since Occupy Wall Street. Thousands of scantily clad gay men and lesbians said they’d lock lips in a coast-to-coast red-hot make-out session.  They were to blast anti-gay-marriage...   August 04, 2012

    From Local
  • Mike hitting the bottle

    This is just creepy. Acting more like a competitive Park Slope uber parent than the leader of New York City, Mayor Bloomberg has waded with both left feet smack into the middle of the Mommy Wars. The 70-year-old mayor,...   August 02, 2012

    From National
  • Hussy Kristen put nail in own coffin

    She’s pure poison. Even in amoral Hollywood, where sex is frequently confused with a handshake, actress Kristen Stewart is leading the race to the landfill.  At 22, Stewart had won the heart and various organs of a guy...   August 01, 2012

    From National
  • B’klyn revival’s ringmaster

    He thought he’d never pull it off. Bruce Ratner doesn’t walk. He bounces. In a hard hat, rumpled suit and never a tie, Ratner vibrates giddily amid buzzing saws and deafening drills, before leaping amid never-sat-in...   July 23, 2012

    From Local
  • Creep eyes comeback to escape (get this!) his ‘normal’ new life

    Bring it on, Weiner. Proving that she’s the emasculating power behind the Jockey pouch boxer briefs, the wife of ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, orchestrated a friendly and gauzy interview with People...   July 19, 2012

    From Local
  • Hubbies, deny sex & you might pay through the toes

    Here’s proof that shoes can substitute for sex in a marriage. Footwear fetishist and professional poker player Beth Shak was so obsessed with stilettos, she sported a tattoo of Christian Louboutin red-soled heels on her...   July 18, 2012

    From Local
  • ‘Space’-cadet Mike

    Mayor Bloomberg has to be messing with our heads.  Our Nanny in Chief is telling us not just to reduce what we eat and drink, but also how big we live. The mayor wants to cram people, like air-breathing sardines, into...   July 16, 2012

    From Local
  • Ingrate cashes out

    Some thanks! Denise Rich is a songwriter, socialite and philanthropist with a wicked spending problem — provided the money she squanders goes solely to tax-and-spend liberals. But Rich and I have one important thing in...   July 12, 2012

    From National

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