Bay Ridge: The new rooftop playground at PS 185 is a hit! Comment.

All the important meetings you should be going to. Comments (1).

Downtown: Want to turn those empty printer cartridges into trees? Here’s how. Comment.

A building at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — the one with the public toilet (a coincidence?) — gains city landmark status. Comment.

Development: The city hasn’t demapped the northern-most block of Fifth Avenue to make room for Bruce Ratner’s basketball arena, but the Department of Transportation is already acting as if the street no longer exists, announcing Wednesday that it will reroute a Park Slope bus line next month. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A game of telephone is going on in Red Hook. Comment.

Letters: A full mailbag of letters this week. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist explains the enduring appeal of Slope Cellars. Comment.

Community Board 2 wants to slam the brakes on a city proposal to reroute the B-54 bus for at least the fifth time in 20 years, arguing that the plan will only further “degrade” the much-maligned bus route. Comment.

Park Slope: Breaking chews: The D’Agostino supermarket on Seventh Avenue is apparently closing at the end of the month. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Two Brooklyn lawmakers have already abandoned their week-old proposal to dig a tunnel under the proposed Atlantic Yards project as a way of fixing the mega-development’s anticipated traffic — a sad foreshadow of how difficult it will be to find a solution to the coming traffic snarl at the intersection of Flatbush, Atlantic and Fourth avenues. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Has a darkness settled over Bay Ridge? Comments (1).

Rezoning: A city plan to block over-development in low-rise Dyker Heights moved another step closer to reality this week as a local civic association backed the proposal. Comment.

Is this a bank or a bar mitzvah? Comment.

Park Slope: Supporters of a plan to build low-income studio apartments in the South Slope fought back against Borough President Markowitz’s surprise rejection of the proposal, storming a hearing this week to urge the city to move forward with the plan. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: A woman wants to save a historic tree in Brooklyn Heights — yet is meeting resistence. Comment.

Greene Acres: A plastic surgery clinic’s naked pictures raise more than just eyebrows. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Will the weather — and the neighbors — finally allow our columnist to drink outdoors? Comment.

Checkin’ in with: A legend in the fight for reproductive rights sits down with The Paper. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: An angry landlord and his son threatened to harm the pet dogs of a tenant they are trying to force from a Dwight Street building — and all the other crime news from the 76th Precinct. Comment.

Fort Greene: A crack addict has been hanging around the campus of a Clinton Hill art school — plus other crime from the 88th Precinct. Comment.

Downtown: A would-be kick-boxer defended his life, but lost his cellphone to armed thugs — and the rest of the crime news from the 84th Precinct. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: If Barack Obama is going to beat Hillary Clinton, the road to victory goes through Brooklyn. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Development: City Corrections officials are inviting developers to pitch plans for the (big) house of their dreams. Comment.

Smartmom: So, Smartmom and her twin sister Diaper Diva went on vacation together — and the fur flies! Comment.

Dining: Forget the farmer’s market, here’s Urban Organic. Comment.

Bay Ridge: The tale of a shooting on Fifth Avenue — plus the rest of the crime news from Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst Comment.

Park Slope: A laptop is stolen at the Tea Lounge — and all the other crime news from Park Slope. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Lots of construction will snarl the neighborhood for the next two years. Comment.

Nightlife: Is this man giving the Brooklyn Brewery a run for their money? Comment.

Bay Ridge: Sonny Soave has beaten the Department of Sanitation — and all of Bay Ridge is cheering. Comment.

Theater: “Lost in Yonkers” found in Brooklyn. Comment.

Park Slope: A Park Slope lawyer who had his throat slit in the parking lot of his building, leaving him “sick, sore, lame and disabled,” with “pain and mental anguish,” is fighting back and, in the process, angling to take down one of the borough’s biggest developers. Comment.

Books: “Leaves of Grass” is great and all, but how long can Brooklyn hang its hat on one epic poem?  Comment.

Downtown: Rep. Yvette Clarke threw her support behind the owners of several Downtown Brooklyn houses who claim their buildings were once part of the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Park Slope: A young motorcyclist was left brain-dead Saturday morning after a dark SUV slammed into her at a Clinton Hill intersection and fled, said police. Comment.

Music: TK Webb brings the blues back to Brooklyn. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A Boerum Hill woman filed a complaint with the Taxi and Limousine Commission after at least five Manhattan hacks refused to take guests over the river. Comment.

Theater: DUMBO real-estate mogul David Walentas is being spoofed on a neighborhood stage. Comment.

The Dodgers’ last season in Brooklyn began 50 years ago this Monday. It’s time to finally answer the question: Did the Dodgers leave Brooklyn or vice-versa? Comment.

Dining: Smoothie moves at Amazon Cafe in Carroll Gardens. Comment.

Politics: Find out what Rep. Yvette Clarke has against Bob Hope. Comment.

Fort Greene: Frank Cassa offers no profound explanation for why he’s amassed the world’s largest collection of spoon rests. He says he just likes to collect things. But the collection is more than just kitsch — it’s a living tribute to his late, beloved wife. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner will protect the legacy of Sol LeWitt, a world-famous conceptual artist who had a workshop in one of the Prospect Heights buildings the developer plans to raze for his Atlantic Yards mega-development. Comment.

Art: David Walentas has hired a culture czar to keep DUMBO’s artists happy. Comment.

Our reporter’s accountant gives up his last-minute tax tips. Comment.

Dining: Tina unleashes her frank opinion on the borough’s hot dogs. Comment.

Politics: A local lawmaker wants to forever change your grocery store experience by banning the plastic bags that have become a ubiquitous part of every shopping trip. Comment.

A Brooklyn Heights woman whose Big Day last year was almost ruined after her bridal shop went out of business on the eve of her wedding now wants to give away the lush silk gown that she’d ordered but never wore. Comment.

Crime: One of Smith Street’s hottest young chefs was arrested this week and charged with stealing goods from the restaurant’s kitty. Comment.

Editorial: This week, Bruce Ratner finally responded to a question from The Brooklyn Paper — the first time in a year. So why does he ususually dodge? Because he doesn’t want you to know the truth. Comment.

Cinema: Silent film series at the Brooklyn Public Library has everyone talking. Comment.

Spa: Are Spa Week bargains: beauties or beasts? Comments (1).

It isn’t enough that we save them a spot at the bottom of the bed, wrap our restaurant leftovers for them as a late-night snack, or wake up early mornings to follow them around in the rain with a pooper-scooper, today some pampered pooches now need wheels. Comment.