Two purse-snatchings within five days at two Atlantic Avenue malls prompted these humble lines of verse, sung to the tune of the holiday classic, “Jingle Bells”. Comment.

A new traffic light will be installed at a Red Hook intersection where a pedestrian was struck and killed by a van earlier this year, Department of Transportation officials said this week. Comment.

The Parks Department moved quickly last week to write into law its 20-year-old informal policy allowing dogs to run off-leash in city parks, after a judge ruled that the agency does indeed have the right to do so. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Dear interested party: Bruce Ratner is taking your home. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: We attended Sunday night’s farewell gala for Rep. Major Owens (D–Crown Heights), who chose not to run for a 13th term and will leave office on Dec. 31. As we sipped cocktails and downed the delicious oxtail stew at the Grand Prospect Hall, we asked Owens’s biggest supporters a simple question: What is Major Owens’s legacy? Comment.

If satire is the sincerest form of flattery, then “Saturday Night Live” gave a wet kiss to the would-be celebrities of Brooklyn Community Access Television [see video] last weekend. Comment.

Smartmom: Monday night, Hepcat, Smartmom, and OSFO bought a Christmas tree from the gentle Canadian man, who sell trees in front of the CVS drugstore. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The fate of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project is now in the hands of the three men in the room. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Yards project approved last week by state officials would generate almost $500 million less in tax revenues than its developer and its Albany boosters promised just five months ago. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: How many Jews does it take to screw in a light bulb? OK, hold your hate mail. That ain’t my joke. It’s the actual name of a campaign being waged by Reform Jewish congregations nationwide to save this planet one lightbulb at a time. Comment.

Editorial: If there was any doubt that Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development would be a bad investment of billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, it was wiped away this week by new revelations that the project will generate far less tax revenue than promised just five months ago. Comment.

Development: A Civil War-era mansion set to be torn down for luxury condos was saved Tuesday by a city landmarks panel after a month-long crusade by its Clinton Hill neighbors. Comment.

Development: A historic factory on the Red Hook waterfront had its first appointment with the wrecking ball last week, the first step towards making way for a developer’s grand retail and residential vision. Comment.

Coney Island: Coney Island’s “rendezvous of the elite” is on its way back. Comment.

City Councilman Bill DeBlasio hates to say he told you so — but he did: schoolkids are drinking a lot less milk ever since the city did away with full-fat and two-percent varieties. Comment.

Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz, best known for marketing the borough, now wants to create a public high school specializing in advertising — and he’s already set aside $2 million to do it. Comment.