Bridge ‘Park’: Opponents of a state’s plan to build luxury apartments on the Brooklyn waterfront are appealing last month’s ruling that threw out their case. Comment.

Brooklyn’s raccoons now have their very own Cruella De Vils: City Councilmen Vincent Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) and Domenic Recchia (D–Coney Island), who have sponsored a bill that would require the city to remove the masked critters, whether they’re rabid or not. Comment.

Development: Little pink houses for you and me — but not for Senator Street. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom thinks that slumber parties for children under the age of 35 should be banned. Why would any parent want to sacrifice his or her sleep and sanity for an all-night gathering of pre-teen girls? Comment.

Development: Fulton Mall may be custom made for Wal-Mart. Comment.

Bar Minnow, best known for its fish-and-burgers menu, has been rechristened the Brooklyn Burger Bar — at least if you can believe awnings. Comment.

It may take “practice” to get to Carnegie Hall, but to get to the virtually unmarked Brooklyn Bridge footpath takes keen eyesight, an internal GPS, and the willingness to ask for directions. Comment.

Two brownstone Brooklyn lawmakers are crowing this week after Police Commissioner Ray Kelly named a person of color to a powerful borough command. Comment.

Coney Island: Running away to the circus might soon be as easy as taking the D train to Stillwell Avenue if Coney Island real-estate magnate Joseph Sitt has his way. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner: He’s won the right to build his $4-billion arena, hotel, office space and residential Xanadu — and he’s gotten his pals in Albany to underwrite it with billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies. Nice work if you have the connections to get it. Comment.

Ninth Street has become Park Slope’s de facto “Rue de la Patisserie” thanks to three French-style bakeries opening up recently — but now the strip is earning another name: “Rue du Divorce Acerbe.” Comment.

The tally of charges is now up to four against Club Shadows, the embattled Third Avenue nightspot whose future increasingly appears in doubt, according to City Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge). Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Resignation — a little bitter, but mostly cynical — swept through Freddy’s Bar in Prospect Heights, the drinking hole of choice for anti-Atlantic Yards activists, who saw their last, best hopes dashed by Wednesday’s Public Authorities Control Board approval of the mega-project. Comment.

You’d be forgiven for thinking you were in a different century — say, the first one — what with the live sheep, the shepherds, a woman named Mary gazing lovingly at her baby Jesus in a hay-filled bassinet. Comment.

Those new “muni-meters” on Atlantic Avenue are no-armed bandits, business owners and residents say. Comment.

Many of our readers got brand new iPods and Playstations this Chrismukkah season — and if one Brooklyn lawmaker has his way, they’ll soon get to hand back their old ones to the companies that made them. Comment.

An underground cloud of toxins that has already invaded the future home of the Whole Foods supermarket, is moving from the industrial neighborhood along the Gowanus Canal toward Park Slope, an engineer told state officials this month. Comment.

Bay Ridgites won’t get full relief from the stench of the Owls Head sewage treatment plant for nearly three years, city officials said at a raucous town hall meeting last week. Comment.

Editorial: Bruce Ratner won ugly. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The political battle over the biggest real-estate development in Brooklyn’s history is over — and Bruce Ratner has won. Comment.

We always look forward to receiving holiday wishes from Borough President Markowitz — if only so we can share the Beep’s Christmas card with the many Brooklynites not on his list. Comment.

Make no mistake about it: "Shopping is a sport," maintains podiatrist Lori Weisenfeld, spokeswoman for the Sunset Park-based footcare line ProFoot. Comment.

This New Year’s Eve, forget Times Square and the claustrophobia of scarved and mittened bodies pressed tightly together like crayons in a box. Comment.

A familiar sound following the excited New Year’s countdown is the distinct pop of a champagne bottle; it is the subsequent reaction to the first sip that will vary. Comment.

Looking for a last minute gift for the person who loves to travel? Or the spouse who’s a frequent flyer? Comment.

One wouldn’t think that heavily trafficked, four-lane Flatbush Avenue would be fertile ground for a farm, but two restaurateurs saw the avenue’s potential. In July, Jason Scandinaro and Damon Gorton turned the former 2,400-square-foot Bistro St. Mark’s space into Flatbush Farm. They started with a bar, and then waited until September - when they hired chef Eric Lind to man the kitchen - to begin serving meals. Comment.

As New Year’s Eve approaches, Park Slope author Kevin Shay reminds us that during a more innocent time - a time before 9-11 - some folks feared a catastrophic breakdown of civilization on Dec. 31, 1999. Comment.

The name of the chef of Lunetta restaurant was misspelled in "Northern Exposure" (Dec. 9, 2006), "Brooklyn Bites" (Nov. 4, 2006) and "A Decade of Good Eats" (Sept. 30, 2006). The correct spelling is Adam Shepard. We regret the errors. Comment.

Bar Minnow has been rechristened the Brooklyn Burger Bar. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s boosters in Albany spent most of Tuesday trying to convince Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D–Manhattan) of the benefits of his Atlantic Yards project. Comment.