The future of New York is pretty scary if you’re to believe the magazine of the same name. In its current cover story, The Horror, I mean Tomorrowland 2016, contributing editor Alexandra Lange posits a great big beautiful metropolis of tomorrow that is chockablock with jagged edgy sky scrapers scraping out what’s left of the sky, not just in Manhattan but here in Brooklyn, where Lange, who must be some kind of expert, considers Forest City Ratner’s “Atlantic Yards” development some kind of done deal.

Consider the headline to the Downtown Brooklyn section: Brooklyn (Like It Or Not) Will Get a Shimmering Frank Gehry Crown”. Because while Lange, who has presumably been to Brooklyn, allows that locals may not like the idea of having 16 skyscrapers rammed up its collective ass when all Ratner was talking about was an arena for his basketball team, those soon-to-be-homeless choke artists, The Nets. But it will be good for us, she insists. It will provides jobs and housing and beauty for us ungrateful wretches.

“We don’t want to build tall for the sake of tall,” she quotes Ratner mouthpiece Jim Stuckey saying. “Frank Gehry can frame the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower”—the current tallest, at 512 feet, compared with the 620 feet of Gehry’s main tower, Miss Brooklyn—“and make it a postcard with other buildings around it.”

You read that right: a postcard. As in, Wish you were here? No wonder the arrogant Gehry, who says those protesting the development should be protesting Henry Ford for inventing the automobile, is calling his crowned jewel, the building around the proposed arena, Miss Brooklyn. You’ll miss Brooklyn, too, when these carpetbaggers get done with it.

It’s a pity that Lange, who is presumably a reporter, could not have found an actual opponent to the project to quote. She does allow that “there could be a kinder, gentler Brooklynized version of the titanium town” but doesn’t offer much hope for one. And why should she? You can sometimes learn a lot by reading a magazine’s articles online, just by looking at the URL. This one is slugged “real estate” which is all ye need to know.