Post columnist: Hudson Yards "mocks Brooklyn’s Pacific (née Atlantic) Yards where a few, unrelated buildings are widely scattered over still-exposed rail tracks" (not exactly)

New York Post real estate columnist Steve Cuozzo offers a full-throated defense of, and paean to, the new Hudson Yards complex, pushing back on all doubters and detractors, published last night as Hudson Yards is finally ready to revamp Midtown West.

From the column:

Attempted parallels with other major urban complexes fall flat as well. Hudson Yards isn’t geographically and atmospherically remote from the historic central city like London’s Canary Wharf — it’s 10 minutes on foot from Penn Station and a three-minute ride from Times Square on the 7 train.
It’s no grafted-on appendage to Manhattan like Battery Park City, which is built on Hudson River landfill. It mocks Brooklyn’s Pacific (née Atlantic) Yards where a few, unrelated buildings are widely scattered over still-exposed rail tracks.

Note: he called the project Pacific Yards, not Pacific Park.

Yes, the buildings are somewhat scattered near "still-exposed rail tracks," with two towers flanking the arena, which is now just west of the two-block railyard, and also two towers--550 Vanderbilt (B11) and 535 Carlton (B14)--just south of the exposed tracks. See graphic at bottom, notably the inset.

But they are not over the tracks unless that means look over. The costly deck remains to be built. So this is, pretty much, another example of what I call "Atlantic Yards down the memory hole."