Fort Greene: Talk about a desperate gamer. Comment.

Park Slope: Two men with a gun stole nearly $3,000 in video games and $1,600 in cash from a Seventh Avenue store and left the clerk tied up in the back when they fled on Jan. 7, police said. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A man with a silver pistol held two women at gunpoint on Jan. 7, but the gunman got spooked twice and walked away empty-handed, police said. Comment.

Bay Ridge: For one Bay Ridge senior, New Year’s Eve offered no reason to celebrate. Comments (2).

Politics: Rep. Yvette Clarke is sworn into office. Comment.

Letters: Readers react to our interview with Marty Markowitz. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Assemblyman William Colton is fighting to stop the dredging of polluted Gravesend Bay Comment.

Politics: The city should use the money it saved this winter because of global warming to combat global warming, says one politician — and it’s not Al Gore. Comment.

Politics: The electorate closed a door, but Gov. Spitzer has opened a window to his pal Carl Andrews, giving the former state Senator a job in his new administration and earning complaints from critics, who call the position a cynical “quid pro quo.” Comment.

Bay Ridge: Group hears president out over beers at Peggy O’Neil’s Comment.

The Coney Island Polar Bears protested global warming by not taking a dip. Comment.

Bay Ridge: The city refuses to cover cesspools at the Owls Head sewage treatment plant. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom misses her friends that have fled from Park Slope. Comment.

Fort Greene: The warm winter has mosquitos buzzing in Brooklyn. Comment.

Park Slope: A distraught Kensington family is facing a new year without its old pal. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A local group teamed with the city to give out free bicycle helmets. Comment.

Downtown: Casale Jewelers is closing down. Comment.

Red Hook: City officials dashed several developer’s hopes this week by declaring part of the Red Hook waterfront a hotel-free zone. Comment.

Downtown: A merchant says high rent forced the closure of the popular shop. Comment.

Greene Acres: In their insatiable desire to devour all of Brownstone Brooklyn, the Babies are infiltrating Fort Greene. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: As Mel Gibson can tell you, making anti-Semitic remarks is just not a good move. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Some 12-year-old girls are worried about 12-year-old boys. And some 12-year-old girls are worried about Al Gore. Comment.

Brooklyn South: To be inside a factory on the verge of demolition is like visiting a place of worship emptied by earthquake. The ceilings are high. Unfiltered sunlight washes over everything: chairs that once held people, stray leather shoes, a suit jacket, ink-stained ledgers, bashed-up books. A sapling grows in the arch of a broken, scroll-shaped window. Comment.

Cinema: Bay Ridge filmmaker Tony De Nonno’s latest presentation was 400 years in the making. Comment.

Theater: Cynthia Hopkins (pictured), who garnered widespread acclaim for her amnesia operetta “Accidental Nostalgia,” returns to DUMBO’s St. Ann’s Warehouse on Wednesday with the New York premiere of her “Accidental” prequel, “Must Don’t Whip ’Um.” Comment.

Fort Greene: The popular Fort Greene eatery has, at long last, closed for good. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Rev. Liz Alexander, pastor of the Church of Gethsemane, is fighting back: “We are talking about trees versus people here,” she told me. Comment.

Park Slope: One blog’s account of a Christmas crime has set off a firestorm of internet excitement. Comment.

A court has ruled that the smell of roasting coffee beans is pollution. Comment.

Nightlife: If Jessica Rabbit is more your speed than Jenna Jameson, it might be time to get yourself to the “Strip Club.” Comment.

Park Slope: The battle over one South Slope development is no longer just business, it’s personal. Comment.

Development: A growing mob of local officials is circling in on a liberal Connecticut politician who is trying to evict rent-stabilized tenants from five buildings in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Dining: Cathy Palm is turning the border of Prospect Heights into a mini restaurant empire. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Is a gang of Arab youths called “the PLO” stalking the streets of Bay Ridge — or is this a case of post-9-11 paranoia? Comments (18).

Dance: Rutha Harris, 66, who performed for Martin Luther King, Jr. just before his “I Have a Dream” speech, will headline this year’s BAM tribute to the slain civil rights leader. Comment.

Editorial: Opponent of the plan for the Brooklyn Heights waterfront played right into the state’s hands. Comment.

Dance: Does one really have to forego a career in dance if he is neither graceful nor quick on his feet? Comment.

Cyclones: The only manager to lead the Brooklyn Cyclones to a New York-Penn League championship is back for another tenure as skipper. Comment.

Dining: The best fried chicken I’ve ever had was in the dining room of a department store in a weird little town in South Carolina. Comment.

Nightlife: The editors of the Lonely Planet guidebooks named Brooklyn one of the top-30 travel destinations for 2007 — and to think, they did it without even mentioning Greenpoint. Comment.

Lonely Planet, a popular tourist guide, is heralding Brooklyn as a visitors’ paradise. Comment.

Fashion: Yoko Devereaux is not an actual person. Comment.