Park Slope: The Prospect Park Y wants to build a new pool — and Community Board 6 wants to let them! Comment.

Downtown plan: An health center for women will move into a Downtown that has increasingly become known less for its social service agencies than for its rising population of luxury residential towers. Comments (1).

Art: Anyone who has passed by the steps of Borough Hall and thought, “There ought to be some turquoise, L-shaped, table-like things here,” is going to get his wish. Comment.

Rezoning: The city is only one step away from making it more difficult to build towering, out-of-scale buildings in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, like the 18-story building threatening to rise on a residential block of Washington Avenue. Comment.

Downtown: Councilman Bill DeBlasio vowed to stop one of the borough’s most prolific architects this week, charging designer Robert Scarano with endangering the safety and aesthetic character of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods. Comment.

Bay Ridge: The Department of Buildings has halted work on a wall that came between two 87th Street neighbors. Comment.

Letters: Our mailbag runneth over with missives about the new Trader Joe’s, traffic, our Cyclones coverage, a stolen tricycle, a cellphone tower on 81st Street, and, of course, Atlantic Yards. Comment.

Fort Greene: There’s no way Edward Baker is 70 years old. Look at him. He’s chiseled. Watch him: he can run the 100 meter dash in 15.2 seconds — faster than men half his age. And now he’s wearing a gold medal from the Empire State Senior Games around his neck. Comment.

Fort Greene: A modernist riff on the courtyard-centric style of Mediterranean architecture is rising in Clinton Hill. Comment.

Park Slope: Waiters at a well-liked barbecue restaurant on Fifth Avenue lost their night’s tips — and the eatery lost its receipts — in an early morning robbery on July 15. Plus all the crime news from Park Slope. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A wealthy Nigerian “prince” in desperate need of an American friend to help him transfer money out of his turbulent country found one in Bay Ridge — plus all the other crime news from the Ridge and the Hurst. Comment.

Fort Greene: Someone sneaked into the Park Avenue lot of a company that specializes in renting moving trucks and made off with one of the heavy-duty haulers on July 9 — plus all the other crime from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

Downtown: A disabled woman was robbed of her handbag by a purse snatcher and a Rollerblading teen on July 12 — plus all the crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown. Comment.

Books: Dead letters come to life at Green-Wood Cemetery. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Club Shadows, the embattled Fourth Avenue nightclub that pleaded not guilty to four violations earlier this year, now wants to make a deal after getting hit with a new set of charges. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: The famed “broken windows” theory is alive and well and sitting on a Red Hook street — where a burned out SUV has become an impromptu garbage dump. Comment.

Cinema: HBO’s new Dodger documentary hammers it home.  Comment.

Bay Ridge: The parking lot that claimed the life of a much-loved bowling alley on 86th Street is one step closer to reality. Comment.

Play’s the Thing: Danny Garcia is up on the wall at Keyspan Park, and up against the wall in his career. A reflection on the topsy-turvy world of the Cyclones’ first major-leaguer. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: Terrified residents of Boerum Hill say that crack dealers and their customers are operating out of a St. Marks Avenue building — a building that is actually owned by the city! Comment.

Park Slope: After months of debate and negotiations with neighbors, an affordable housing facility has finally been approved for the corner of Fifth Avenue and 16th Street. Comment.

Williamsburg Waterfront: The Parks Department asked North Brooklynites to “go to town” at a meeting earlier this month to discuss the future of Greenpoint’s long-shuttered McCarren Pool — and residents let their imaginations run wild to envision everything from a sandy beach to summer movies to urban kayaking. Comments (2).

Art: Brooklyn art galleries take the Hamptons by storm. Comment.

Cyclones: Cyclones pitcher Nick Carr lost 40 pounds — yet he’s bigger than ever. Comment.

Cyclones: Mets General Manager Omar Minaya was observing the Cyclones on July 17 — and the team won. No pressure, kids. No pressure. Comment.

Park Slope: A new chocolate maker in town wants Park Slope’s picky foodies to know that “kosher” and “gourmet” needn’t be as incompatible as oil and water. Comments (2).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Cyclones: Here’s a Cyclone who’s a real animal at the plate — Will Vogl. Comment.

Williamsburg: The 411 (and 311) on Williamsburg’s new waterfront park. Comment.

Cyclones: This team isn’t only a roll, they’re on a steamroll! Over one three-game stretch this week, the Cyclones outscored their opponents 49-12 and won sixth in a row. Comment.

Smartmom: The Oh So Feisty One has been away at summer camp for more than a week and Smartmom hasn’t received a letter. Not one friggin’ letter. Comment.

Books: Prospect Heights overachiever releases book and record this summer. Comment.

Editorial: The Paper opposes a bill that would criminalize the distribution of leaflets and circulars. Comment.

Music: A new Brooklyn music festival aims to shake up the summer concert establishment. Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: Our columnist finds that some people think Park Slope goes all the way to 24th Street! Comments (1).

Greene Acres: Mobay, purveyor of the finest veggie-chicken roti from Fort Greene to Montego Bay, is dead. Our columnist mourns. Comment.

Brooklyn novelist and occasional amateur pugilist Jonathan “Herring Wonder” Ames is in the fight of his life against a writer 11 years his junior. No, really. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: DUMBO is getting its own post office — sort of. Comment.

Brooklyn South: When did hot Red Hook go cold? Our columnist examines. Comment.

Downtown: What’s with those new green bike lanes? Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist encounters an urban skunk. Comments (1).

Dining: Manhattan’s loss is Park Slope’s gain with a new Korean eatery. Comment.

Beside the Point: Our columnist enjoys the $2-million view from atop Williamburg’s tallest tower. Comment.

Dining: Tina comes back from Italy and gets into the Spirito.  Comment.

Fashion: Brooklyn-based stylist Sara Dunn shared her thrift store secrets with us. Comment.

After thinking it over, Curtis Sliwa decided not deploy the Guardian Angels to Carroll Park after rock and water-balloon slinging teenagers made headlines by terrorizing families and park employees last week on two straight days. Comment.

Downtown: A Brooklyn Heights community board, citing a rash of requests, is poised to make it tougher to rename streets after everyday people. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: The universe is expanding — and so is BookCourt! Comments (1).

Fashion: GO’s guide to the best vintage shopping in the borough. Comments (1).

Williamsburg Waterfront: The tilted yellow “Domino Sugars” sign on the old Williamsburg waterfront refinery could still be salvaged even though the building to which it’s attached will likely be knocked down during the site’s impending 11-acre redevelopment. Comment.

Arena Bagels — the Atlantic Yards–area bagelry that ran afoul of Bruce Ratner’s opponents because the shop’s name suggested that the mega-development was inevitable — is now officially A.R.E.A. Bagels. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Pastry lovers are safe — for now. A local Chock Full of Nuts was recently shut down after it was discovered that the popular coffee and pastry franchise was selling stale donuts given to the owner by a competitor. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Park Slope has officially caught Obama Fever. And Brooklyn Heights is filled with rabid Clintonistas. A report from the campaign trenches. Comment.

Bridge ‘Park’: Summer fun — but not for long — at the Floating pool in the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront development. Comment.

Politics: Borough President Markowitz, who for months has been openly toying with a run for the mayoralty in 2009, is trailing his would-be opponents badly in the only race that matters right now: money. Comment.