A lawyer walks into a bank. Comment.

Red Hook: Republican insider and political power broker Herman Badillo has submitted a bid to turn Brooklyn’s last working port into a 1,500-unit housing development and a campus for charter schools and a college. Comment.

Smartmom: Move over, Smartmom. There’s a new mom on Seventh Avenue and she’s taking over your turf. And guess what? It’s Diaper Diva, your very own twin sister. Comment.

Editorial: All of Brooklyn owes a debt of gratitude to an umbrella coalition called the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods — not only because the group has put out the most detailed study of the state’s analysis of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project, but, in doing so, has shown once again the value of independent experts operating outside of Albany’s closed-door meetings and smoke-filled rooms. Comment.

Development: City officials have raised the curtain on their latest effort to save the Loew’s Kings Theater — the historic-but-decaying movie palace where Barbra Streisand once ushered. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The 73-day public comment period for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project ended after we went to press last week — and the Sept. 29 deadline brought about a flurry of reports, analyses and submissions from project opponents and supporters. Comment.

The Board of Elections said this week that the razor-close race between two former Soviets for a Dyker Heights Assembly seat is officially over — but that hasn’t stopped the loser from fighting on. Comment.

Brooklynites can now watch pirated Borat videos on YouTube in the peace and comfort of Prospect Park. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: One of last week’s front page stories, Council of Nabes: Yards not so bad, reported that the Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, a coalition of more than three dozen community groups, had found flaws with the state’s draft environmental impact statement for the Atlantic Yards project, yet not so many flaws that the DEIS needed to be scrapped. Comment.

A multi-car crash on Atlantic Avenue left one man dead and one injured on Wednesday afternoon. Comment.

Development: Eight vacant lots in Red Hook and Park Slope will become homes to lower- and middle-income families, as part of a citywide effort to increase affordable housing. Comment.

Is Hollywood hottie and new mommy Maggie Gyllenhaal smarter — or just poorer — than Michelle Williams and Jennifer Connelly, her fellow sirens who have strollered down in brownstone Brooklyn? Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Last week’s Department of Health proposed ban on trans-fats in restaurants city-wide caused such a firestorm that I immediately called Brooklyn’s great chef Alan Harding to find out what it would mean for his customers. Comment.