Checkin’ in with: The basic arc of a typical New Year’s Eve for the over-18 set is simple: imbibe thousands of fizzy, alcoholic calories, dance a little silly dance, notice a jiggling upper arm or lower abdomen, and resolve to go to the gym. But few of us make good on those resolutions. So this week, reporter Ariella Cohen (who, by the way, hasn’t been to her gym since the early days of 2006) checked in with Calvin Washington, a personal trainer at Crunch Fitness in Fort Greene about that perennial and typically short-lived post-Jan. 1 gym rush. Comment.

Smartmom: Aside from the drunken woman who threw up (and just missed Smartmom) on the A train, Smartmom spent an exceedingly pleasant New Year’s Eve drinking champagne and sparkling cider with Hepcat, the Oh So Feisty One and a gaggle of college friends in the West Village. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom misses her friends that have fled from Park Slope. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Some 12-year-old girls are worried about 12-year-old boys. And some 12-year-old girls are worried about Al Gore. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: As Mel Gibson can tell you, making anti-Semitic remarks is just not a good move. Comment.

Greene Acres: In their insatiable desire to devour all of Brownstone Brooklyn, the Babies are infiltrating Fort Greene. Comment.

Brooklyn South: To be inside a factory on the verge of demolition is like visiting a place of worship emptied by earthquake. The ceilings are high. Unfiltered sunlight washes over everything: chairs that once held people, stray leather shoes, a suit jacket, ink-stained ledgers, bashed-up books. A sapling grows in the arch of a broken, scroll-shaped window. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Rev. Liz Alexander, pastor of the Church of Gethsemane, is fighting back: “We are talking about trees versus people here,” she told me. Comment.

Editorial: Opponent of the plan for the Brooklyn Heights waterfront played right into the state’s hands. Comment.

Letters: A writer concurs with Borough President Markowitz in slamming The Paper’s Atlantic Yards coverage. Comment.

Smartmom: The fingers are flying as the Oh So Feisty One finally gets a piano. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist ponders the future of Seventh Avenue, with its high rent and blah offerings. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist’s father goes in search of the Brooklyn he once knew, but finds he can’t even get an Italian ice anymore. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: All our local pols want to save Victory Memorial Hospital, but how come no one is stepping in to save Gourmet Grill, a health food restaurant that could save even more lives? Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist ponders two eternal questions: Why are there so many very-high-end fashion stores in this neighborhood and does that $358 sweater come in mauve? Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist goes to the “I am Park Slope” discussion and discovers that “diversity” is like pornography: No one knows what it is, but they know it when they see it. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist — a dancing fool from way back — says Red Hook is the perfect place for a club scene. Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to get across the intersection of Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene Place and Fulton Street. And, believe it or not, she makes it! Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist scoffed at “banksteria” — until his favorite rib joint was closed to make room for a new branch. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom goes to Neal Pollack’s reading at the Tea Lounge and finds the humor writer’s take on parenting not that funny at all. Catfight! Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: The 94-year-old Carroll Gardens man whose landlord kicked him out of his apartment has found a new apartment nearby. Dominick Diomede, whose story was first reported by The Brooklyn Paper, is poised to sign a lease on a subsidized unit on Warren Street run by the Fifth Avenue Committee. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: DUMBO: Star-gazers hanging around DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights in hopes of seeing Will Smith destroy evil vampires were sorely disappointed on Tuesday when all they got was bright lights in their eyes and noisy helicopters in their ears. Comment.

Letters: Readers respond to last week’s story about Bruce Ratner’s deal with Barclays Bank, an institution with links to slavery, the Holocaust and apartheid. Comment.

Editorial: Brooklyn missed a great opportunity when Bruce Ratner sold the naming rights to his Nets arena to a foreign bank with no connection to the borough. He should have named it Jackie Robinson Arena. With that damage done, The Paper is now calling on state officials to not make the same mistake at the so-called Brooklyn Bridge Park. It must be named “Harriet Tubman Park.” Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom goes to Two Boots and starts reeling in the years. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Everyone is focusing on Bruce Ratner’s deal with a slavery-linked bank, but meanwhile, the city is about to tear down homes linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Greene Acres: Does Murder Avenue need a cheese shop? Our columnist tries to find out. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist bemoans the sorry state of the Miss America pageant, which hasn’t had a winner from New York, let alone the northeast!, since 1984. Comments (1).

Brooklyn South: A psychic on Atlantic Avenue just went out of business. Our columnist examines why she couldn’t predict her own future. Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: Our columnist poses the eternal question: How many coffee joints can Seventh Avenue support? Comment.

Letters: The Paper’s mailbag is once again filled with anger from Atlantic Yards supporters — plus some support. Comment.

Editorial: The truth is the first casualty of development in Brooklyn. Otherwise, how would today’s generation of Master Builders pick your pocket? Comment.

Downtown plan: Black Facts — a Downtown Brooklyn mainstay — was the canary in the coalmine. It closed last month and Downtown will never be the same — and that’s by design, unfortunately. Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: A pizzeria across the street from John Jay HS puts up a “No Kids Allowed” sign? Oh, right, it’s John Jay. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist seeks out Valentine’s Day advice from the Mayor of Bay Ridge and gets more than he bargained for. Comment.

Letters: Our mailbag is again filled with more missives about our “Blood Money” front page. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist tours Carroll Gardens with a top-ranked barista [sic!] and learns that we’re drinking swill. Comments (1).

Smartmom: The inside story on Marian Fontana’s engagement. Comment.

Letters: Gersh Kuntzman’s recent Brooklyn Angle column about the Miss America pageant (“Snubbed! Miss New york loses big crown again”, Feb. 3) prompted an avalanche of letters condemning Kuntzman for his misplaced Brooklyn pride. Since Kuntzman has had his say, we felt obligated to allow our readers to have their say about whether Miss New York or Miss Oklahoma deserved the top tiara. Comment.

Editorial: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. We stand our ground. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist defends a Brooklyn Heights barber under fire for his “hideous” neon sign. Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to figure out why Fort Greene Park declines, even though money is available to fix it. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist finds that history has become a low priority in Red Hook. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist defends Barnes and Noble in the recent “Strollergate” controversy Comment.

Smartmom: Snow was in the forecast. Valentine’s Day was coming (it’s Hepcat’s least-favorite Hallmark holiday). And in the middle of everything, Smartmom found out that one of her paying projects has been substantially downsized. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist goes in search of Brooklyn’s (Increasingly) Little Italy. Comment.

Letters: The mailbag is again filled with letters about Miss America and Bruce Ratner’s Barclays deal. Comment.

Editorial: The Paper supports a Wal-Mart — with some caveats, of course — on the Fulton Mall. Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist tries to figure out why Long Island University hasn’t opened its nice new gym to the pool-starved public — as promised. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: One of the three restaurants involved in a co-branding Web site called “the Corner of Cranberry” is already out of business. That’s a tough corner. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist tries to save a popular Laundromat but ends up only saving the sign above the entrance. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Alexandra Stein was the future of bowling — and then she wasn’t. A cautionary tale. Comment.

Smartmom: Teen Spirit’s band was playing a “no-adults-allowed” gig. Guess who crashed the party. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: A self-professed cat lady tells all! Comment.

Letters: The Brooklyn Public Library fires back at charges that it censored an Atlantic Yards art show. Comment.

Editorial: Bruce Ratner’s landscape architect told the truth this week — and his comments reveal a great deal about the developer’s lack of commitment to sane urban planning. Comment.

Greene Acres: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill join the race to complain about the Postal Service. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Why does the new Starbucks have two espresso machines while the old Starbucks three blocks away have one? Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist gets so appalled at the armchair liberals that she gets out — literally — and hits the streets to protest the war. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist tries to solve the mystery of how a home without a driveway can get a ticket from the Sanitation Department for having a dirty driveway. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: He just discovered a link between heart health and coffee consumption. It’s never been a better time to check in with Brooklyn College Professor James Greenberg! Comment.

Letters: Our weekly letters column gets hotter than ever, with attacks from two John Jay HS principals, an Atlantic Yards supporter and a fan of the Brooklyn Public Library’s supposed “censorship” of an anti–Atlantic Yards exhibition. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom wants to know: Does New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks know anything about Park Slope? Comment.

Editorial: Bruce Ratner has barely put a shovel in the ground at his Atlantic Yards mega-development and already the city’s Department of Transportation is putting Band-Aids on the machine gun wound that the project will cause in the heart of Brooklyn. But don’t blame DOT; blame the state planners who ignored traffic in the borough so Atlantic Yards would sail through the approval process. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Has New York Magazine no sense of decency at all? Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist finds Walt Whitman’s former home. Why is it not protected? Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom has an exclusive sit-down with her nanny, Beautiful Smile. Dumb Editor accuses her of double-dipping. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist takes a contrary view about saving a Bay Ridge church that is slated to be torn down for condos. Comments (1).

Brooklyn South: Our baby-mocking columnist finds herself in the belly of the beast after her sister gives birth. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: We check in with Helen Selsdon, an anti-war mom who is organizing a protest march all by herself. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Editorial: This week brought yet more evidence that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-project is built on a foundation of deception. Comment.

Greene Acres: In the midst of a Health Department crackdown, our column dives into a restaurant that was once called one of the city’s dirtiest. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Some want the wild dogs to return to Brooklyn — if only to keep home prices down. Our columnist has a different take. Comment.

Letters: The latest sampling of our mailbag, including a movie recommendation from our councilman and a letter from a former Paper reporter! Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist imagines a city led by “Mayor Marty Golden.” Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist suffers from writer’s remorse now that she finally has her hands on her finished memoire. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist reveals his true calling: working the checkout line at the Park Slope Food Co-op. Comment.

Editorial: The Paper wants to know why the city is buying land for Bruce Ratner. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: The Gottis were coming to Bay Ridge for a book reading, so our columnist went in search of historic Gottiland. Comments (1).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist offers five ways to block the city from instituting the bizarre one-way Seventh and Sixth avenue plan. Comment.

Smartmom: Sound the alarm: Hepcat got laid off! Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist defends the Department of Transportation bureaucrat who wants to convert two avenues into one-way streets. It’s getting ugly, folks. Comment.

Greene Acres: A sordid tale from the former owner of Liquors restaurant in Fort Greene. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist mediates the Boerum Hill banh mi smackdown. Comment.

Editorial: The city needs to stop dumping plans on Brooklyn neighborhoods with no consultation or discussion. Comment.

Letters: A full mailbag, as always. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: It’s a wonder that Larry Scott never got his ass kicked — the guy’s been clowning people since the age of 13. Comment.

Perspective: When you identify your religious affiliation as “Nothing,” it can be challenging to figure out what you do believe in. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: If there are any atheist opponents of Atlantic Yards, they might want to start believing in God — because God, apparently, is opposed to Bruce Ratner’s mega-development. Comment.

Greene Acres: Elected officials rail against a plan to sell a state-owned office building at 55 Hanson Place. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: What’s more important, individual rights or the good of the community? Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Maybe the behemouth should study Brooklyn before putting a store here. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom ruffles some feathers while cleaning up the clan’s apartment. Comment.

Letters: Our readers sound off some more on the plan to install one-way avenues in Park Slope. Comment.

Brooklyn South: I guess we all wish we had a place to put our car — amound other things. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: Do you love your favorite book enough to, well, let it go? Masha Hamilton hopes so. Comment.

Letters: A full mailbag of letters this week. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist explains the enduring appeal of Slope Cellars. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Has a darkness settled over Bay Ridge? Comments (1).

Heights Lowdown: A woman wants to save a historic tree in Brooklyn Heights — yet is meeting resistence. Comment.

Greene Acres: A plastic surgery clinic’s naked pictures raise more than just eyebrows. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Will the weather — and the neighbors — finally allow our columnist to drink outdoors? Comment.

Checkin’ in with: A legend in the fight for reproductive rights sits down with The Paper. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: If Barack Obama is going to beat Hillary Clinton, the road to victory goes through Brooklyn. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Smartmom: So, Smartmom and her twin sister Diaper Diva went on vacation together — and the fur flies! Comment.

Editorial: This week, Bruce Ratner finally responded to a question from The Brooklyn Paper — the first time in a year. So why does he ususually dodge? Because he doesn’t want you to know the truth. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist on the latest effort to save some historic — and possibly slave-linked — houses on Duffield Street. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Smartmom: Our columnist heads to the cosmetics counter for a midlife spruce-up. Comment.

Brooklyn South: A Red Hook artist, who just wants a quiet neighborhood, once again installed his “Traffic Stopper” piece. Reviews from police were negative. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Is Bay Ridge becoming the new Park Slope? And what will it mean for Dyker? Comment.

Greene Acres: Win a free composter … and a free lesson on how to use it! Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist, a renowned leadfoot, supports a city plan to add bike lanes to Ninth Street. Comment.

Editorial: Former Borough President Howard Golden was honored for saving the borough on Monday night — but The Brooklyn Paper has a slightly different view of who deserves the credit. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Dom DeMarco is back behind the ovens at DiFara — and the world is back in order. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Greene Acres: Luxury units in the Forte condos - Fort Greene’s first new residential skyscraper - officially went on the market last week, putting the punctuation mark on the neighborhood’s complete transformation into Brooklyn’s own Upper West Side. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist braves the most rat-infested block in Boerum Hill. Comment.

Letters: One reader blames the victim for her mugging, while another longs for one last photo of Herbie the Hereford - plus the rest of our weekly mailbag. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: The Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes head-to-head with John Edwards. Comment.

Editorial: The two faces of Mayor Bloomberg are again on display. One day, the mayor is one of the nation’s leading advocates of environmentally sound, community-sensitive, sensible development. The next day, he’s a backroom crony greasing the wheels for a developer who ignored the community. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Don’t think of community board meetings as boring. Think of them as free entertainment! Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom learns a lesson about how to break bad news to kids. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Is a French baker in DUMBO a racist or just rude? Let’s go to the court papers! Comment.

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

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

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

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

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

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

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

Checkin’ in with: Spring cleaning — is it a myth? We found out more about this ancient rite. Comment.

Smartmom: For the first time in 10 years, Smartmom and the Oh So Feisty One are going their separate ways — and both are looking forward to it. Comment.

Greene Acres: The Broken Angel may finally have met its demise, thanks to a recent court ruling. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist analyzes why an otherwise reasonable man would want to head the Brooklyn Republican Party. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist explains why a hotel plan on Atlantic Avenue died — and why it’s a good thing. Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: Manhattan lost its riding academy, but Brooklyn still has its stable. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: The Cafe Habana Outpost mastermind chats with GO Brooklyn about his eco-friendly restaurant. Comments (1).

Letters: A letter from Assemblyman Karim Camara — and other hot missives! Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom is just too damn busy! Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist solves the mystery of Brooklyn Inn — and it’s staying in business! Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist recalls those hazy, crazy, fireworks-filled days of summers past. Comment.

PS … I Love You: It’s “chicken bone season” again in Prospect Park. Comment.

Greene Acres: What could be bad about an all-day festival in Fort Greene Park? Just ask the community board! Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Letters: A letter about the mayor’s congestion pricing plan, plus missives about litter, Councilman Simcha Felder, IKEA’s plans for Red Hook, and step-moms. Comment.

Editorial: Two powerful editorials: one in favor of more bike lanes and another urging District Attorney Charles Hynes to arrest someone already! Comment.

Letters: Parents react with anger at — and support for — a proposed Arabic language and culture school, now slated to be located in Boerum Hill. Comment.

Perspective: The Gibran Academy principal breaks her silence. Comment.

Letters: Letters from our Stoop readers. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist visits with a legendary Park Slope artist. Comment.

Letters: Lots of letters about our Arabic language and culture school coverage — plus more mail on Atlantic Yards and litter. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Two gardening centers fight a war of the roses in Red Hook. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom sees a rare bird and learns about being a better mother. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: A new art show on nannies gets our guest columnist thinking about their role in our neighborhood. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: It may be National Dog Bite Prevention Week, but local mail carriers are on step ahead of their canine enemies: they’re armed with Mace! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Our editorial on the politically motivated purge of community board members by Borough President Markowitz. The board members dared question the Atlantic Yards mega-development of Markowitz buddy Bruce Ratner. Comment.

Greene Acres: The sidewalk on one edge of Fort Greene Park is sinking — and our columnist goes deep to figure it out. Comment.

Letters: Readers respond negatively to Borough President Markowitz’s purge of anti–Atlantic Yards community board members — plus lots of other letters. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: This week, our columnist did something that no grown man should do: he paid a man $45 to teach him how to hit a baseball. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom finally says “no” to Teen Spirit. Call Mr. Guinness! Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: Ditmas Park author and reading series founder chats with GO Brooklyn. Comment.

Brooklyn South: It’s too bad Borough President Markowitz can’t be on every voyage of the Queen Mary 2 — because cruise ship passengers want to know about Brooklyn. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist notices that the Conservative Party isn’t all that conservative anymore. Comment.

Editorial: Editorial: Now Con Ed wants a 17-percent rate hike. State officials are shocked — shocked! We’re not. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: The Green Church will not be saved — you can take that to the bank and cash it. Yet despite the writing on the check, some members of the community continue to fight the inevitable. Call it denial (or call it optimism). Comments (1).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom is battling the bulge — yet trying not to teach the Oh So Feisty the wrong lesson about body image. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist — an author! — is on a panel with literary bad boy Christopher Hitchens. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist tries out Google’s new “Street Views” — and finds Brooklyn Heights frozen in time. Comment.