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

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

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

Bay Ridge: A local group teamed with the city to give out free bicycle helmets. 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 (7).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week’s commmunity meetings. Comment.