Dining: Eat insects at The Brooklyn Kitchen. Comment.

Brownstone Brooklyn lawmakers are jumping all over a plan to add bite to the city’s toothless stance on raccoons. Comments (5).

Carroll Gardens: Hundreds of mourners rallied at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday to demand criminal charges against an 84th Precinct cop who declined to give CPR to an 11-year-old Carroll Gardens girl as she was suffering a fatal asthma attack last week. Comment.

Link: If it’s Wednesday, it’s Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list.

Cobble Hill: The family of an asthma-stricken pregnant woman who died gasping for breath at a Downtown cafe as two city EMTs stood idly by has sued the city. Comments (3).

Greenpoint: Several kickball teams lost on Sunday — but the one big winner was the Greenpoint Reformed Soup Kitchen. Comment.

Art: Love him or hate him, you can’t say that Le Corbusier didn’t have a profound impact on the urban landscape. This was the guy, after all, who gave us the projects, or, as he preferred to call them, “machines for living.” Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: And it’s been going on for decades. Comments (6).

DUMBO: Three buildings on historic Old Fulton Street will be demolished if owners don’t fix them up. Comments (2).

Fearless Parenting: Fortunately or unfortunately, no one can tell you what you need to do as a parent. There is no one-size-fits-all advice that one can disseminate exactly accurately like the number of hours of sleep or the amount of food one needs. As parents, we are each different in our own ways and those differences, combined with a confusing host of genetic chromosomes, means that each of our children is going to need something different. Comments (2).

The Best Thing We Ate This Week: The fried chicken at Peaches HotHouse in Bed-Stuy is worth a trip from anywhere. Comments (3).

Books: This one is going to be better than ever. There’s Krugman! And Rushie! And Auster! And Goldberg! And Shteyngart! And even Sarah Silverman! Comments (1).

Dining: It’s all part of Hot Plates Live at the Bell House next Monday. Comment.

Cyclones: Cory Vaughn was a giant, and the Cyclones rolled. Comment.

Cyclones: You know him as the newest Met, but we at The Brooklyn Paper remember Lucas Duda as a great young power-hitting kid. Duda So click to watch our historic video of Duda after he won a playoff game against the Yankees. With video … Comments (1).

Foodie-in-Chief: With the lackadaisical days of summer drawing to a close, Brooklyn’s restaurant scene is revving up. Here’s the best of the borough’s openings, closings, and, of course, restaurant gossip. Comment.

Downtown: The winning designer reveals a rendering for Willoughby Square. Comments (4).

Cyclones: Even resting his team for the playoffs, Wally Backman gets plenty of power and pitching. Comment.

Event: The final chapter of our five-part series of why you should stay in town this weekend — the granddaddy of all reasons: the annual Labor Day carnival on Eastern Parkway. Comment.

Letters: I think that the additional bike paths on the perimeter of Prospect Park were ill thought-out and dangerous (“Bike lane war! Prospect Park West a conflict zone,” June 25). Comments (4).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist takes has a different take on the city’s “ghost bike” situation. Comments (9).

Cyclones: An ugly loss in the first game — and a ugly win in the second. Comment.

Perspective: Two Assemblywomen. Two pensions. Two levels of outrage. With video … Comments (12).

Gowanus: It might have been her first time at the Douglass-Degraw Pool, but it certainly won’t be Stephanie Frangipane’s last dip. Comments (5).

Perspective: Two challengers are attacking two Assembly incumbents for taking their pensions while still in office. Click below for opinion pieces on both sides of this issue.

Music: Part four of our series on why you should stay in town — Friday’s soca concert. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: The dust has settled in a contest to rename a once-gritty section of a popular Bay Ridge park, as officials this week announced the three finalists vying for the chance to immortalize the rehabilitated ball fields popularly — and officially — known as the Dust Bowl. Comment.

Cyclones: A great win, but Darrell Ceciliani is injured. Comment.

Nightlife: Here’s the third reason to stay in town this weekend: A speed-dating event at Union Hall on Sunday. Comment.

Park Slope: A man is mugged by cycling thugs who surround him on Sixth Avenue. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comments (1).

Podcast: Yes, Stephen Brown got a shout-out on “Countdown” after his hard-hitting interview with Rudy “9-11! 9-11!” Giuliani, so check out our video on the ensuing excitement. With video … Comments (1).

Williamsburg: Alejandra Deheza can’t stay in one place too long or else she gets restless. Comments (1).

Shopping: Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are only a week away. For the observant, that means feasting on sweet foods to help ensure a “sweet New Year” before fasting. Here in Brooklyn, you only need to go to one place to find all your Rosh Hashanah needs, from challah to kosher chicken to bottle of sweet wine — Lee Avenue. Comments (1).