Our editor moderates another show on BCAT. Comment.

Fort Greene: The 88th Precinct wants your help in ending the scourge of graffiti. Comment.

All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment.

TV: Are you ready for your close-up Brooklyn? Well, you don’t have to be — but your house does, as two Home and Garden TV shows get set to tape in the borough. Comment.

Letters: We received a remarkably high volume of mail regarding the controversy of a city plan to eliminate one lane of traffic in each direction on Ninth Street and replace them with left-turn bays and install bike lanes on each side of the street. Virtually every letter was in favor of the city plan. Comment.

Letters: Another voice in favor of a Fifth Avenue Committee project — plus all your letters. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A partial building collapse during last week’s heavy rain shut down a popular Fifth Avenue men’s clothing store and also sent an old-timer to the hospital with minor injuries. Comment.

Park Slope: This is one bad car crash. Comment.

Downtown: An open-air tennis court is getting spruced up in DUMBO. But don’t practice your backswing just yet. Comment.

Downtown: Mayor Bloomberg’s greener New York City plan may have a benefit in Vinegar Hill. Comment.

Fort Greene: Community leaders hailed the city’s selection of Pratt Area Community Council as one of three groups that will develop the site of the former Navy Brig on the border of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

Art: Two artsy Brooklynites are betting that Wallabout — the northern edge of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill — will be the next “it” place in the Brooklyn art scene. Comment.

Bay Ridge: The sister of the Bay Ridge woman who allegedly smothered her newborn baby girl and then left her outside to die is now facing charges of her own. Comment.

Park Slope: After eight months of battling Con Edison for thousands of dollars in damages stemming from a 24-hour power outage last summer, the Park Slope Co-op received finally received a check last week. Comment.

Park Slope: The Stoop solves the mystery of those five abandoned buildings on supposedly booming Fourth Avenue. Comment.

Red Hook: A 90-foot-high monument to industrial decline — a set of grain silos in Red Hook — will soon return to service. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist tries to figure out the secret of one butcher shop’s success. Comment.

Brooklyn South: A traffic light now burns on Van Brunt Street, yet so does the rubber. Comment.

Greene Acres: A Brooklyn school has taught some developers a lesson in real estate, beating out more than a dozen competitors for a prized piece of land in central Clinton Hill that could have supported at least six floors of luxury housing. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A man created a new identity for himself before swindling his victim out of almost $30,000 — plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst! Comment.

Downtown: A woman wakes up to find herself being fondled — plus all the crime from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: What happened when an Arab man started digging up the sidewalk for a “television station”? The neighbors — and the community board — was just a bit concerned. Comment.

Park Slope: Traffic in Park Slope is enough to make anyone’s blood boil. But not all drivers take their frustrations out with a tire iron — plus all the other crime news from the 78th Precinct! Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Herve Poussot: Assaulted or assaulter? Let’s review some new evidence! Comment.

Dining: Pigfest comes back to DUMBO. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Music: Ghostface comes to the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom learns to stop worrying and love her stepmom. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Merchants along 86th Street who hoped that a proposed two-year water main replacement project would be done in two segements didn’t get everything they asked for — but officials did promises to finish the job six months ahead of schedule. Comment.

Fashion: Brooklyn Fashion Weekend strikes Williamsburg. Comments (1).

Red Hook: The site of a future Ikea in Red Hook could also be home to other big box chains. Comments (1).

Play’s the Thing: Cyclones’ tickets went on sale this week — and Dodger great Johnny Podres was there! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It’s back to the drawing board for the Atlantic Yards — they wish. Comment.

Books: Joshua Ferris chronicles life in cubicles. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s demolition of the Ward Bakery inside the Atlantic Yards footprint remains blocked by city officials, a week after hundreds of pounds of debris crashed onto Pacific Street as workers began tearing apart the historic building. Comment.

Politics: Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) is pushing a bill that will encourage restaurants to take their used frying oil and turn into an environmentally safe fuel. Comment.

Event: Pratt House opens for a peek in house tour. Comment.

Politics: Assemblyman Karim Camara (D–Crown Heights) won The Brooklyn Paper’s coveted “Hero of the Week” award for introducing legislation that would cap legislators’ terms at just 12 years, but also won The Brooklyn Paper’s ignominious “Goat of the Week” award after being arrested on a drunk driving charge on Wednesday morning in Albany. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist slams a Council bill that would ruin his livelihood. Comments (4).

Checkin’ in with: The “View from a Burning Bridge” author chats it up with GO Brooklyn. Comment.

A far-flung pal snapped this shot of Brooklyn’s well-traveled name. Comment.

Downtown: The Parks Department has a reputation for stamping its maple leaf logo on everything — but now they’ve even put it on a parking lot! Comment.

Editorial: The Paper opposes a city plan to tear down seven houses linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Dining: Chez Oskar’s adventurous little sister sure is a charmer. Comment.

Downtown plan: The battle over whether the Underground Railroad passed through seven houses on Duffield and Gold streets made it this week to the City Council, which could block a city plan to destroy the houses for a hotel parking lot. Comment.

Fort Greene: Basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson is in talks with Councilwoman Letita James (D–Fort Greene) and a prominent Clinton Hill pastor to build affordable housing in the fast-gentrifying neighborhood, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.

Bridge ‘Park’: Brooklynites may be able to doggy-paddle, scissor-kick, swim laps and do cannonballs in the East River this summer — without having to touch its murky waters. Comment.

Downtown: Former President Bill Clinton stopped by actor Gabriel Byrne’s Garden Place home last Thursday to raise money for his wife’s White House bid. Comment.

Nightlife: The Brooklyn cocktail finally comes into its own. Comment.