Politics: Borough President Markowitz has opposed East River bridge tolls before. What’s he saying now? Not much. Comment.

Residents of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill hailed a city plan that would build housing atop the nine-block-long Brooklyn–Queens Expressway trench that divides the neighborhoods from the Columbia Street waterfront. Comment.

Fort Greene: Brooklyn Public Library officials reportedly said this week that their efforts to raise money for a $135-million iconic glass-walled performing arts branch have failed - and that the project can’t go forward at this point. Comment.

Honeybees are dying all over the country — and one Brooklyn beekeeper thinks that cellphones are guilty. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Is a French baker in DUMBO a racist or just rude? Let’s go to the court papers! Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom learns a lesson about how to break bad news to kids. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Developer Bruce Ratner began demolition of three more buildings within the Atlantic Yards footprint, days after dozens of opponents called for the developer to call off his wrecking ball until pending litigation is resolved. Comment.

Music: Can you please help four rockers find their missing monkey? Comment.

Fort Greene: Old graduates returned to Brooklyn Technical HS for a reunion last week only to find that the nature of technology has changed since the days when high-tech meant sharing an abacus with a pal. Comment.

Fort Greene: Like adolescents to a compulsively neat parent, two elected officials are trying to reason with the city’s Sanitation Department, arguing that Fort Greene and Clinton Hill do not need twice-a-week street cleaning. Comment.

Downtown: The Parks Department has finally one-upped the legendary “Sign Lady” of Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Red Hook: The Brooklyn cruise terminal created just 14 full-time jobs in its first year on the Red Hook waterfront — a whopping 356 short of the number of full-time jobs promised by the city’s Economic Development Corporation. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Don’t think of community board meetings as boring. Think of them as free entertainment! Comment.

Bay Ridge: Commuters in Bay Ridge who want a 12-minute water taxi ride into Manhattan have been left at the dock - and they have Mayor Bloomberg to blame, a local pol charged this week. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: An ice cream man’s sweet treat melted this week when city officials painted over a special — and illegal — parking space next to a kid-filled Carroll Gardens park. Comment.

Editorial: The two faces of Mayor Bloomberg are again on display. One day, the mayor is one of the nation’s leading advocates of environmentally sound, community-sensitive, sensible development. The next day, he’s a backroom crony greasing the wheels for a developer who ignored the community. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: The new urban homesteaders are floating away - on the Gowanus Canal. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: It’s mating season for the ugly oyster toadfish of Bay Ridge. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: The Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes head-to-head with John Edwards. Comment.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard has just installed a solar-powered garbage can. Yes, a solar-powered garbage can. Comment.

Letters: One reader blames the victim for her mugging, while another longs for one last photo of Herbie the Hereford - plus the rest of our weekly mailbag. Comment.

Brooklyn’s chance of becoming a base for a fleet of tricycle pedicabs was dashed this week when the City Council voted to limit the number of the person-powered vehicles on city streets. Comment.

Park Slope: The influx of condos is forcing developers to come up with new ways to move their units. The latest marketing tool? Go green. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist braves the most rat-infested block in Boerum Hill. Comment.

Park Slope: Don’t panic! One of Park Slope’s favorite bookshops is not about to turn its final page. Comment.

Greene Acres: Luxury units in the Forte condos - Fort Greene’s first new residential skyscraper - officially went on the market last week, putting the punctuation mark on the neighborhood’s complete transformation into Brooklyn’s own Upper West Side. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist searches her soul, and decides to quit using plastic shopping bags. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Twenty-two local roads from Bay Ridge to Bensonhurst will be getting a well-deserved makeover this summer - a tiny fraction of the thoroughfares that deserve the spring cleaning, at least one local official said. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: ”Coney Island whitefish” are back in the Gowanus Canal. Comment.

Downtown: Pace University has pulled its 500 students out of a Clark Street dormitory, but the 800-bed facility will likely be busy again when the fall semester starts, experts said. Comment.

Downtown: The owners of the two-story building at Clinton and Remsen streets say they are not ready, just yet, to sell. Their comment only slightly calmed the concern of Brooklyn Heights residents. Comment.

Fort Greene: Pratt Institute unveils a spiffy new design center. Comment.

Fort Greene: Will the city step in and block an 18-story tower on Washington Avenue? Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Red Hook has its second traffic light. Maybe those arugula-chasing drivers will finally slow down. Comment.

Park Slope: How about those PS 321 kids! Comment.

Park Slope: A Park Slope lawyer whose throat was slit during a 2004 carjacking in his building’s parking lot has won a multi-million-dollar settlement against the big-time construction company that failed to secure his safety. Comments (1).

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

The poet laureate of Park Slope weighs in on the arrival of the Hampton Jitney to Brooklyn. Comment.