Downtown: Former President Bill Clinton stopped by actor Gabriel Byrne’s Garden Place home last Thursday to raise money for his wife’s White House bid. Comment.

Downtown: The Parks Department has a reputation for stamping its maple leaf logo on everything — but now they’ve even put it on a parking lot! Comment.

Politics: Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) is pushing a bill that will encourage restaurants to take their used frying oil and turn into an environmentally safe fuel. Comment.

Red Hook: The site of a future Ikea in Red Hook could also be home to other big box chains. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: Merchants along 86th Street who hoped that a proposed two-year water main replacement project would be done in two segements didn’t get everything they asked for — but officials did promises to finish the job six months ahead of schedule. Comment.

Red Hook: A 90-foot-high monument to industrial decline — a set of grain silos in Red Hook — will soon return to service. Comment.

Park Slope: The Stoop solves the mystery of those five abandoned buildings on supposedly booming Fourth Avenue. Comment.

Art: Two artsy Brooklynites are betting that Wallabout — the northern edge of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill — will be the next “it” place in the Brooklyn art scene. Comment.

Downtown: An open-air tennis court is getting spruced up in DUMBO. But don’t practice your backswing just yet. Comment.

Downtown: Mayor Bloomberg’s greener New York City plan may have a benefit in Vinegar Hill. Comment.

Park Slope: This is one bad car crash. Comment.

Fort Greene: Basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson is in talks with Councilwoman Letita James (D–Fort Greene) and a prominent Clinton Hill pastor to build affordable housing in the fast-gentrifying neighborhood, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.

Downtown plan: The battle over whether the Underground Railroad passed through seven houses on Duffield and Gold streets made it this week to the City Council, which could block a city plan to destroy the houses for a hotel parking lot. Comment.

Fort Greene: Community leaders hailed the city’s selection of Pratt Area Community Council as one of three groups that will develop the site of the former Navy Brig on the border of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

TV: Are you ready for your close-up Brooklyn? Well, you don’t have to be — but your house does, as two Home and Garden TV shows get set to tape in the borough. Comment.

Editorial: The Paper opposes a city plan to tear down seven houses linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist slams a Council bill that would ruin his livelihood. Comments (4).

Smartmom: Smartmom learns to stop worrying and love her stepmom. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s demolition of the Ward Bakery inside the Atlantic Yards footprint remains blocked by city officials, a week after hundreds of pounds of debris crashed onto Pacific Street as workers began tearing apart the historic building. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: It’s back to the drawing board for the Atlantic Yards — they wish. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Herve Poussot: Assaulted or assaulter? Let’s review some new evidence! Comment.

Yellow Hooker: What happened when an Arab man started digging up the sidewalk for a “television station”? The neighbors — and the community board — was just a bit concerned. Comment.

Brooklyn South: A traffic light now burns on Van Brunt Street, yet so does the rubber. Comment.

Greene Acres: A Brooklyn school has taught some developers a lesson in real estate, beating out more than a dozen competitors for a prized piece of land in central Clinton Hill that could have supported at least six floors of luxury housing. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist tries to figure out the secret of one butcher shop’s success. Comment.

Bridge ‘Park’: Brooklynites may be able to doggy-paddle, scissor-kick, swim laps and do cannonballs in the East River this summer — without having to touch its murky waters. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A State Supreme Court justice opened a long-awaited legal challenge against Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development on Thursday by grilling state lawyers over whether the project has a substantial enough “public benefit” to justify condemning privately owned buildings and turning then over to the developer. Comment.

A far-flung pal snapped this shot of Brooklyn’s well-traveled name. Comment.

Politics: Assemblyman Karim Camara (D–Crown Heights) won The Brooklyn Paper’s coveted “Hero of the Week” award for introducing legislation that would cap legislators’ terms at just 12 years, but also won The Brooklyn Paper’s ignominious “Goat of the Week” award after being arrested on a drunk driving charge on Wednesday morning in Albany. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Park Slope: After eight months of battling Con Edison for thousands of dollars in damages stemming from a 24-hour power outage last summer, the Park Slope Co-op received finally received a check last week. Comment.

Letters: Another voice in favor of a Fifth Avenue Committee project — plus all your letters. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A partial building collapse during last week’s heavy rain shut down a popular Fifth Avenue men’s clothing store and also sent an old-timer to the hospital with minor injuries. Comment.

Letters: We received a remarkably high volume of mail regarding the controversy of a city plan to eliminate one lane of traffic in each direction on Ninth Street and replace them with left-turn bays and install bike lanes on each side of the street. Virtually every letter was in favor of the city plan. Comment.

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

Our editor moderates another show on BCAT. Comment.

The poet laureate of Park Slope weighs in on Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez. Comment.