Parenting: Fun for the whole family! Comment.

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

Bay Ridge: New 68th Precinct commanding officer Eric Rodriguez parked the NYPD’s mobile command post on the eastern side of his precinct last week — and promptly got an earful from hundreds of residents who took advantage of his visit. Comment.

Park Slope: The Park Slope Civic Council has a new president — Ken Freeman. Comment.

Downtown: The Department of Transportation has agreed to do a study of the traffic-choked intersection of Tillary and Adams streets in Downtown Brooklyn — the result of protests by local seniors who say that current light timing doesn’t give them enough time to cross the street. Comment.

Park Slope: Workers installed LED signboards at Bergen Street, but 2-train rid­ers shouldn’t expect flashy L-train treatment soon. Comment.

Bay Ridge: On Tuesday, Councilmembers Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge), Domenic Recchia (D–Coney Island) and Joseph Addabbo (D–Queens) looked over a map of the Buckeye Pipeline, which carries jet fuel from Linden, New Jersey to Kennedy Airport. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A look inside (sort of) at Bay Ridge’s “Gingerbread House.” Comment.

Fitness: Our Classified Sales Manager Adam El-Sheemy is undertaking the “Boot Camp Challenge,” a grueling, thrice-weekly workout regimen set up by two personal trainers. Every week, he’ll give us an update on how he’s doing. Here is how he fared during his third week. Comments (1).

Fighter Paulie Malignaggi got his revenge on Saturday — not only over his IBF Junior Welterweight title opponent, but also The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.

The New York Aquarium’s Coney Island home turned 50 last week. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know. Comment.

Downtown: A veteran gardener has decided to quit rather than fight Fulton Landing dog owners, whose pets’ urine is damaging exotic grasses, herbs and flowers along Old Fulton Street. Comment.

Rezoning: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill leaders presented a united front before the City’s Planning Commission on Wednesday — despite some internal squabbling — in a push to get the city to restrict building size in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

Fort Greene: A controversial 18-story tower will rise over Clinton Hill, despite the community’s frantic efforts to quash the project, and a lawmaker’s push to make such towers illegal. Comment.

Leon Freilich, the poet laureate of Park Slope, heard about developer Joe Sitt’s latest scheme for Coney Island and had this lyrical reaction, titled, “In the Cards.” Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist ponders a career in public service. Comments (1).

Dining: Boerum Hill’s One Girl Cookies after dark! Comment.

Brooklyn South: A used-book store on Columbia Streets needs a new partner. Only book lovers need apply! Comment.

Checkin’ in with: The ‘Ice Storm’ writer sits down with GO Brooklyn for a chat. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A gang of teenage hoodlums attacked a 32-year-old woman walking on Smith Street on June 12, police said — plus all the other crime news from Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Red Hook. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Dating this dad can be hazardous to your health. That is the message to potential father suitors, after a 48-year-old woman was sent to the hospital by a young lady angry over the fact that she was dating her dad, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights and Bay Ridge. Comment.

Fort Greene: He wasn’t just cycling for his health: A man on a bicycle ambushed a woman on June 12 just after 9 am, and snatched her pocketbook at the corner of Quincy and Classon avenues. Plus all the other crime news from Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. Comment.

Downtown: Two men — who may have been armed — forced a Brooklyn Heights man to withdraw $800 from an ATM before ordering him to drive them to Manhattan on June 16. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown and DUMBO. Comment.

Park Slope: Detectives hunting the thieves who hit a chain drugstore on Flatbush Avenue on June 13 might want to call in the bloodhounds: the two men stole almost $2,000 in perfumes. Plus all the other crime from Park Slope! Comment.

Greene Acres: The bedbug invasion has come to Fort Greene. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: The “For Sale” sign above a century-old Atlantic Avenue hole in the wall is stirring new memories of the Mohawk Indian ironworkers who once occupied the saloon’s long, wooden bar. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: Police in Bay Ridge were hunting a man who allegedly sexually assaulted an off-duty female cop in her Colonial Road home on Wednesday night. Comment.

Dining: Our ratings of Brooklyn’s best-loved institutions. Comments (1).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Park Slope: A Park Slope man got a ticket because his neighbor did a most unneighborly thing — and now he’s fighting back. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A long-simmering feud between a local business group and city officials could extinguish the Victorian-style lampposts that line Atlantic Avenue. Comment.

Dining: Gargiulo’s celebrates 100 years in Coney Island. Comment.

Cyclones: The company that brought us He’Brew — “the chosen beer” — will launch a line of Coney Island-themed brews at the Mermaid Parade this Saturday. Comment.

Cyclones: Before last week, Cyclones pitcher Dylan Owen had only been on a plane two times in his entire life. But now that he’s a Cyclone, everything has changed for the South Carolina backwoodsman. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom looks back at a great neighbor. Comment.

Dining: The maniacal soup-maker who inspired the Jerry Seinfeld’s legendary “Soup Nazi” character has brought his so-called “best soup in the world” to Brooklyn. Comment.

Music: Manhattan nightclub gurus take over Williamsburg’s Northsix space. Comment.

Cyclones: Edgar Alfonzo, the only man to lead the Cyclones to a championship, is back — and better than ever. Comment.

Park Slope: New details have emerged about a rape that occurred in the early morning of June 15 in Prospect Park. Comment.

Cyclones: The Bard of Brooklyn baseball offers a preview of the Cyclones’ 2007 campaign. Comment.

Downtown plan: A city-funded report that denies any Underground Railroad activity along Duffield Street isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, said a handful of historians, Councilmembers and ticked off residents at a rally on Tuesday. Comments (1).

Dining: Tina infiltrates the secretive Brooklyn Food Group. Comment.

Letters: Our full mailbag includes letters about Borough President Markowitz’s purge of Community Board 6 members, the annual hot dog-eating contest in Coney Island, Bay Ridge’s historic Green Church, a claim that The Brooklyn Paper is sexist (what else is new?!), and concern about God. Comment.

Downtown plan: Schermerhorn Street — long home to parking lots, litter, a food stamp distribution center, job placement offices and a Hare Krishna temple — is finally joining the rest of the Downtown Brooklyn residential boom. Comment.

Dining: West Village mainstay opens a branch on Smith Street. Comment.

Transit: Nearly 2,000 F line straphangers have signed a petition demanding restored express train service on the slow-moving line whose name is often used as an abbreviation for an epithet. But don’t trade in that Jonathan Lethem tome for a People magazine just yet — Transit officials say that F riders won’t lose any reading time for at least another five years. Comment.

Cyclones: Wait ’til this year! Avenging the 18–0 loss to the hated Staten Island Yankees on last season’s Opening Night, the Brooklyn Cyclones drew first blood this year against their cross-Narrows rivals with a thrilling 5–1 victory on Tuesday night. The Brooklyn Paper’s video captures the action. Comment.

Art: Graffiti giant puts his mark on DUMBO. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Start spreading the bleus: Union Market is coming to the South Slope. Comments (2).

Cinema: What does Adrian Grenier have to say about fatherhood? Comment.

Politics: It’s the dude versus the narc: Two Brooklyn lawmakers — one a former Soviet engineer, the other a former police officer — are hashing it out over a bill to make marijuana legal for medicinal use. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: The Paper checks in with a renowned economics writer — and learns a valuable lesson about the Whig Party! Comments (1).

Yellow Hooker: The Department of Education may have been the one to fail the exam, but it turns out an innocent student will be the one paying the price. Comment.

Downtown plan: Brooklyn’s tallest office building was sold on Wednesday for $107.5 million to Manhattan’s largest office landlord — and the new owner immediately distanced himself from rumors that the building be converted to luxury residential use like many others in the neighborhood. Comment.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of the greatest American poets, is about to crash on the rocks of political correctness at a Sunset Park school. Comments (2).

Event: Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade turns 25! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A man is sleeping in a Dean Street gallery window. It must be about Atlantic Yards, right? Comment.

Politics: Mayor Bloomberg threw open his Upper East Side townhouse for a fundraiser for Borough President — and potential mayoral hopeful — Marty Markowitz on Wednesday, drawing a crowd of 80 or so well-heeled donors and boosting the still undeclared campaign of the term-limited Beep. Comment.

Editorial: The Paper urges the city to get out of the way and let the market dictate what developer Joe Sitt can build in Coney Island. Comment.