Park Slope: The two Parent-Teacher Associations at a Boerum Hill school will back a city plan to house an Arabic language and culture academy in its building, despite a mini-revolt from many parents when the plan was presented after the fact at an “emergency meeting” on Monday. Comment.

Perspective: The Gibran Academy principal breaks her silence. Comment.

Letters: Parents react with anger at — and support for — a proposed Arabic language and culture school, now slated to be located in Boerum Hill. Comment.

Six years after he was declared mentally incompetent under murky circumstances, and two years after he had been locked down in a Bronx nursing home, former Civil Court Judge John Phillips was finally freed to move into a Park Slope assisted living facility on Wednesday. Comments (1).

Everyone loves Brooklyn — but, more and more, people are wearing that love on their sleeve — or, more accurately, under it, in the form of a borough-themed tattoo. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A larger-than-life local figure is about to lower his profile — by a few hundred pounds, hopefully. Bay Ridge resident Will Millender, 26, will compete to lose weight and win cash on a new ABC reality show, “Fat March.” Comment.

Development: A luxury condo developer says he wants to build residential towers on the sides of the Brooklyn House of Detention — a bold salvo in his bid to win redevelopment rights at the soon-to-reopen jail. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner is a money-grubbing liar who tricked a politically connected businessman into investing $6 million of his own money to help Ratner acquire the New Jersey Nets with promises he “never had any intention of fulfilling,” a bombshell lawsuit charged last week. Comment.

Editorial: Two powerful editorials: one in favor of more bike lanes and another urging District Attorney Charles Hynes to arrest someone already! Comment.

Bay Ridge: The latest on Lowen’s pharmacy, the Third Avenue mom-and-pop drugstore that got raided by state drug officials. Comment.

This small building — so close to the Cyclone rollercoaster that it brings to mind that house in Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” — is being transformed into a home base for the Coney Island History Project. Comment.

Park Slope: Park Slope has more bike commuters than any other neighborhood in New York City — and more may be hitting the road soon thanks to new bike lanes, a new study revealed this week. Comment.

Letters: A letter about the mayor’s congestion pricing plan, plus missives about litter, Councilman Simcha Felder, IKEA’s plans for Red Hook, and step-moms. Comment.

Read all about it: The Hampton Jitney has released its Brooklyn stops. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Now the dead are even being heard from on the demolition of the so-called “Green Church.” Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Development: Who gets credit for turning Brooklyn from a dirty word to a hot spot? Comment.

Development: Cobble Hill’s shuttered Engine 204 will be turned into a city schoolhouse rather than being reopened as a firehouse, city officials announced Tuesday. Comment.

Greene Acres: What could be bad about an all-day festival in Fort Greene Park? Just ask the community board! Comment.

PS … I Love You: It’s “chicken bone season” again in Prospect Park. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist recalls those hazy, crazy, fireworks-filled days of summers past. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist solves the mystery of Brooklyn Inn — and it’s staying in business! Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom is just too damn busy! Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Someone is making calls to convince Downtown residents that a big box store would be good for the Fulton Mall. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Brooklyn skateboard punks may get a place of their own under a new proposal to turn a long-neglected Boerum Hill park into a haven for boarders. Comment.

Downtown: From the Addams Family to a real family. This Brooklyn Heights house — long abandoned and then horribly damaged in a 2004 fire — is ready to make its return to civilization, thanks to a local developer and restorer who refused to see the grand dame rot away. Comment.

Fort Greene: Ten months after the community board voted “no” on a city plan to build five new miles of bike lanes through Fort Greene, the city has gone ahead and started painting in the cyclist-friendly paths anyway. Comment.

Park Slope: File this in the “no good deed goes unpunished” category: the fire that gutted Pizza Plus on Seventh Avenue last Thursday started after a welding accidentally ignited a fire-control system that was being upgraded. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: Leif Ericson’s playground is about to be fit for a Viking. Comment.

Fort Greene: Fort Greene activists are hatching a plan to transform their stately brownstone neighborhood into something that would make Al Gore proud. Comment.

Park Slope: The mystery of the high-pitched squeal on Fifth Street has been solved! New York Methodist Hospital has repaired some whining faulty equipment. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Old-fashioned street lamps could soon light the future of Columbia Street, thanks to a group of businesses and residents on the burgeoning waterfront strip. Comment.

Downtown: The beau monde of DUMBO gathered this week to schmooze, eat, drink … and save the neighborhood from overdevelopment. Comment.

Park Slope: Park Slope’s Red, White and Bubbly releases its new line of Brooklyn wine. Comment.

Parenting: We know how hard it is to go from busy Master of the Universe to camp counselor every weekend, so here are our picks for how to entertain your kids — and yourself — this weekend. Comment.

All the community meetings you should be going to, but don’t have the time. Comment.