Atlantic Yards: While opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project continue to work around the clock — figuratively — to block the developer’s wrecking ball, cat lovers are working around the clock — literally — to rescue a colony of feral felines who are also about to lose their homes to make room for the 16-tower mega-project. Comment.

Wrong way! Park Slope united against Seventh and Sixth avenue one-way conversions

By Christie Rizk

Atlantic Yards: City officials backtracked a bit this week from a bombshell proposal to convert Seventh and Sixth avenues into one-way thoroughfares, saying the much-reviled proposal would be killed if residents reject it at a meeting next week. Comments (1).

Slope going nuts over ‘insane’ one-way plan

Letters: The plan to make Seventh and Sixth avenues into one-way thoroughfares filled the mailbag; also, letters about the F train, postal service, Whole Foods and censorship. Comment.

Little guy beats Ratner in not-so-little case

By Dana Rubinstein

Atlantic Yards: A state judge has ruled that a backroom deal between Bruce Ratner and another big-time developer for control of a key piece of real estate in the Atlantic Yards footprint was “improper.” Comment.

Marty goes on the record on Barclays

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Markowitz gives us his opinion on Bruce Ratner’s naming-rights deal with a slavery-linked British bank. Comment.

When will Atlantic Yards be done? Depends on which Ratner you ask

By Dana Rubinstein

Atlantic Yards: The Nets arena will open a year later than promised — and the rest of Atlantic Yards won’t be done until 2022 — six years behind schedule, two key officials said this week, contradicting a promises by Bruce Ratner that the mini-city would be completed on schedule by 2016. Comment.

Marty for mayor? He’s spending like it

By Dana Rubinstein

Borough President Markowitz hasn’t formally declared for mayor — but he’s spending like he has, a Brooklyn Paper investigation reveals. Comment.

(Law)breaking news: Columnist arrested!

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: Our columnist gets arrested — for littering! Comment.

Running man sitting on couch

By Christie Rizk

Brooklyn’s “Running Man” still hasn’t gotten back on the road — a full week after he said he would. Comment.

Exclusive: Inside Broken Angel

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: Our reporter goes inside Arthur Wood’s quirky Clinton Hill mansion — an exclusive! Comment.

Brooklyn and Vienna: Perfect together

By Gersh Kuntzman

Politics: Brooklyn and Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district have a lot in common — Jews, high-fat foods and leaders with an eye on the future — so no wonder they just signed a partnership. Comment.

Marty: I am a wiener!

By Gersh Kuntzman

Politics: Borough President Markowitz took a page from President Kennedy when he declared, “Ich bin ein Wiener” in a speech this week. Here’s how MM and JFK match up in our first-ever Presidential Smackdown. Comment.

Corcoran’s still hot on the Hook

By Robert Guskind

Carroll Gardens: Barbara Corcoran’s vanity property in Red Hook isn’t moving. Comment.

Another Marty, another ‘maybe’ for mayor

By Gersh Kuntzman

Politics: State Sen. Marty Golden is apparently running for mayor — though like a fellow Marty (Borough President Markowitz), the Bay Ridge Republican is being a bit coy about it. Comment.

Coney Island looks like bomb hit it

By Gersh Kuntzman

Coney Island: Joe Sitt is clearing land throughout Coney Island, even as his $2-billon Vegas-on-the-Boardwalk plan appears stalled. Comments (1).

Bensonhurst wants to get Gore-d

By Dana Rubinstein

Bay Ridge: An activist battling the city’s plans to build a waste transfer station on Gravesend Bay is so desperate for help that’s she’s reached out to the greenest celebrity of them all: Al Gore. Comment.

Some Zagat jive for ‘Turkey’

By Dana Rubinstein

Fort Greene: The Myrtle Avenue BID wants you to vote for Jive Turkey so the caterer can get into the prestigious Zagat Survey. Fair? Who cares?! Comment.

Get hungry, Brooklyn!

By Dana Rubinstein

Borough President Markowitz noshed — but only a bit! — at this week’s “Dine in Brooklyn” kickoff. Comment.

All drawn out

By Cristian Fleming

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Bad awnings make bad neighbors

By Laura Raskin

Park Slope: Three inches are all that stand between Richard Muzio and a good night’s sleep — but he can’t get the Department of Buildings to order his neighbor to take down her awning. Comment.

A deluxe singles bar in the sky

By Christie Rizk

Downtown plan: The tallest singles club in Brooklyn is open for business. Comment.

Helen Selsdon, anti-war mom

By Gersh Kuntzman

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

Smile! You may be on DOT camera

By Michael Giardina

Carroll Gardens: The city has installed a red-light “camera” on Smith Street — but no one knows if it’s real. Comment.

Bubby’s is back!

By Christie Rizk

Downtown: After being snared in the Health Department sweep, Bubby’s is back and better than ever. Comment.

Babyless writer in giftless jam

By Ariella Cohen

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

Windsor Terrace PO’d by new postal hours

By Nica Lalli

Park Slope: Do postal workers deserve a lunch break? Of course. Should the post office close? Of course not. Comment.

Save the Green Church. Why?

By Matthew Lysiak

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).

Beautiful Smile tells all: Secret of life: ‘Kids, love and God’

By Louise Crawford

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

Putting Walt in a time vault

By Dana Rubinstein

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

Vegas Diner owner smells a rat

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: The owner of the Vegas Diner believes he was shut down because of rats — the ones in government, not the ones in his restaurant. Comment.

New York can’t find Brooklyn

By Christie Rizk

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

Slope goes down wrong-way street

By Nica Lalli

PS … I Love You: In what seems like a monthly endeavor, our columnist attended yet another forum on where Park Slope is headed — and left cynical as ever. Comment.

Purim is one wacky holiday

At synagogues and community centers throughout Brooklyn, Jews celebrated Purim, last Saturday night and Sunday, with costumed frivolity that commemorated the rescue of Jews in ancient Persia. Comment.

Fight to save church needs Hail Mary

By Matthew Lysiak

Bay Ridge: Preservationists and residents are cursing an unholy plan to tear down one of Bay Ridge’s most distinctive churches to make room for luxury condos. Comment.

Bellying up to the barista

By Dana Rubinstein

Carroll Gardens: Carroll Gardens caffeine addicts are uniting to raise money for a Naidre’s barista who has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease. Comment.

Walentas ‘Independence’ plan back on track

By Christie Rizk

Development: A Cobble Hill apartment building project that was temporarily suspended last year is back in full swing. Comment.

Wreck finally gone

By Michael Giardina

Downtown: An abandoned car was finally removed after three weeks on the street. Comment.

7 for ’07 in Slope

By Nica Lalli

Park Slope: Members of the Park Slope Civic Council sat down and drew up a list of seven top priorities for the year. Here they are. Comment.

Bloomy comes to Brooklyn Tech

By Josh Saul

Fort Greene: Mayor Bloomberg traveled to Fort Greene on Tuesday to unveil a plan that he hopes will make all city high school students as successful as their Brooklyn Tech counterparts. Comment.

Civic Calendar

All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment.

Clarification

A headline in last week’s edition, “Federal judge: Suit is hot air,” suggested that federal magistrate Robert Levy had recommended that a suit against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project be dismissed because it lacked merit. Comment.

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