A recent spike in crime has residents of Clinton Hill worried about a return to the bad old days, when there were more bullets and fewer Bugaboo strollers on the streets. Comment.

Hipsters, beware: Brooklyn’s old-timers are protecting their turf. Or at least they are at the McCarren Park tennis courts, in Greenpoint, where a gang of 50 retirement-age ralliers — a de facto tennis mafia — calls the shots, swearing at those who try to uproot them from “their” two chosen courts. Comments (2).

Bridge ‘Park’: A lawyer for the state-run Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation openly mocked a community lawsuit against the proposed waterfront development as “skullduggery” at a pre-trial hearing on Wednesday. Comment.

Smartmom: You’ve heard of road rage. Now there’s “Mommy Rage” and there’s no shortage of it in Park Slope. Comment.

Editorial: While many Brooklynites have spent the past two weeks complaining that the Empire State Development Corporation ruined everyone’s vacations by releasing its 2,000-page Atlantic Yards draft environmental impact statement during the summer, some people have actually rolled up their sleeves and started analyzing the flawed document. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The three community boards that converge where Bruce Ratner wants to build Atlantic Yards are mad as hell at being cut out of the public review process of the largest development in Brooklyn history — and they’re going to host a public hearing about it. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Follow the money. That old journalistic mantra might be as applicable to Brooklyn’s competitive newspaper market as it was to Watergate, now that the Sheepshead Bay’based Courier-Life chain is revealed to have been giving thousands of dollars to the politicians it routinely covers. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Atlantic Avenue merchants are blasting organizers of the annual Atlantic Antic for accepting developer Bruce Ratner’s sponsorship, especially after the state acknowledged the significant negative impacts that Ratner’s proposed Atlantic Yards would have on the avenue. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation, best known for its annual Atlantic Antic street fair every September, was robbed of more than $8,000 by an employee who took checks from the office and then made them out to a friend, cops said. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Gubernatorial front-runner Eliot Spitzer — who said last year that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development should be built “immediately” — is now calling for a delay to allow the public to more fully weigh the project’s significant environmental impacts. Comment.

Could Ditmas Park be the next dining destination? Comment.

Politicians will put on tap shoes and then tap your phone lines in Theater for the New City’s new summer production, "Tap Dance," performing free in parks from Aug. 5 through Sept. 17. Comment.

"Satellite" may have been an official selection at the Tribeca Film Festival and recipient of a special jury prize at the Madrid Film Festival, but Jeff Winner, the independent movie’s writer-director, says he knows people are really getting his film because they are approaching him and telling him about their own "Satellite" moments. Comment.

Sirius Satellite Radio host Bruce Morrow, better known as former WCBS-FM disc jockey Cousin Brucie (pictured), discusses the heyday of doo-wop in "American Soundtrack: Doo Wop’s Best" premiering Saturday on Thirteen/WNET New York. Comment.

Is the street you live on named after a politician, the color of dirt, or a family riddled with secrets and murder? Comment.

It’s that time again: My daughter has left for camp. My husband and I will miss her, of course, so we shared a moment of silence before opening a bottle of wine and deciding where to have dinner. Comment.

On Thursday, a stage in Coney Island will transform into the "Love Shack": a little old place where we can get together and rock out with the B-52’s. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Rent-stabilized tenants living in buildings owned by Atlantic Yards mega-developer Bruce Ratner say they’ll sue the state to block the condemnation of their homes to make way for the project. Comment.