Atlantic Yards: The Atlantic Yards project is partly responsible for the sharp energy rate hikes requested last week by Con Edison, according to the company’s own officials — apparently contradicting a state’s assessment last year that the mega-development would have only an “insignificant” impact on the energy grid. Comment.

Editorial: Editorial: Now Con Ed wants a 17-percent rate hike. State officials are shocked — shocked! We’re not. Comment.

Politics: Last month’s purge of nine anti–Atlantic Yards members of Community Board 6 is raising new questions that Borough President Markowitz has turned the panel into a crony clubhouse. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A group of renters in the Atlantic Yards footprint say they will appeal the dismissal of their case. Comment.

Red Hook: Borough President Markowitz was the first city official to ever lecture on a cruise ship while still in office, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comment.

Political gadfly John O’Hara registered to vote on Wednesday — and now he’s going after District Attorney Charles Hynes, the man who once prosecuted him for the felony of listing the wrong address on his voter registration form. Comment.

Downtown plan: Albee Square Mall shop owners and community activists vowed to fight a plan to demolish the mall and create a residential and commercial high-rise. Comment.

Coney Island: Coney Island is not dead yet, apparently. The carnival community will crawl with freaks for at least a few more days this summer, thanks to 13 performances by the Cole Bros. Circus, starting on July 30. Comment.

Downtown plan: A handful of small business owners on Willoughby Street have become the latest victims of Downtown’s booming real-estate market. They’re being evicted to make room a $208-million, 30-story tower. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Controversial DUMBO-based designer Robert Scarano has scrapped a plan to erect a flashy, steel-skinned building on Smith Street and Second Place in favor of a brick edifice with a green roof and “gigantic apartments perfect for families,” he told The Stoop this week. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Hallelujah and praise the Lord! A new preacher is coming to town — and he is making big promises of doling out “miracles and prophecies.” Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: A 60-foot tower rising above a Cobble Hill historic district will likely move forward, despite a unanimous rejection from Community Board 6 at a public hearing last week. Comment.

Fort Greene: David Dyson, pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church wants to put the green back in “God’s green earth,” beginning with his own house of worship. Comment.

Bay Ridge: More than a dozen subway stations in Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights are in line for a sprucing up, but residents had a clear reaction to the news: It’s about freakin’ time. Comment.

Fort Greene: A nearly century-old Fort Greene building, home to a warren of municipal offices and a day care center, has been temporarily spared the fate of its similarly historic neighbors: the dreaded conversion into luxury condos. Comment.

Park Slope: A controversial supportive housing facility proposed for Fifth Avenue moved forward last week when the City Planning Commission gave its approval for the five-story, 49-unit building at what is currently a municipal parking lot on 16th Street. Comment.

Park Slope: The mysterious high-pitched wail that irked residents near New York Methodist Hospital earlier this month reemerged last week — but only for some people, apparently. Comment.

Park Slope: Hurricane Katrina hit almost two years ago, but the Big Easy is still hard up — and now two Prospect Heights women want to help. Comment.

Brooklyn South: It’s too bad Borough President Markowitz can’t be on every voyage of the Queen Mary 2 — because cruise ship passengers want to know about Brooklyn. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our 21st-century columnist explores the 18th-century practice of posting broadsides. Comment.

Greene Acres: The sidewalk on one edge of Fort Greene Park is sinking — and our columnist goes deep to figure it out. Comment.

PS … I Love You: It’s summer in the Slope — and our columnist loves it. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom finally says “no” to Teen Spirit. Call Mr. Guinness! Comment.

Letters: Readers respond negatively to Borough President Markowitz’s purge of anti–Atlantic Yards community board members — plus lots of other letters. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist notices that the Conservative Party isn’t all that conservative anymore. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani got a hero’s welcome inside a Bay Ridge catering hall this week — but outside, the man running for president as “America’s Mayor” got Swift-boated. Comment.

Downtown: Here’s one record that Brooklyn Heights residents can’t be proud of: the neighborhood leads all others in parking tickets. Through May 27, the 84th Precinct was credited with a whopping 20,210 summonses — a 6.2-percent increase from the same time last year. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Park Slope: A band of little girls is making a mockery of the gender’s reputation as “sugar, spice and everything nice” by terrorizing full-grown adults in Prospect Heights, sparking a police investigation into the attacks and raising concern among residents that the crimes might comprise a new and unnerving trend. Comments (1).

Red Hook: Brooklyn Borough President Markowitz took the maiden voyage of the New York Water Taxi from Red Hook to Governors Island on Wednesday, a photo-op to promote a new summerlong service between Brooklyn and the historic, tear-drop-shaped island. Comment.

Park Slope: Environmentalists — some in hazmat suits, some in tank tops — protested outside of Target at the Atlantic Terminal Mall on May 24, decrying the discount chain’s refusal to phase out the sale of vinyl products, which are believed to release dangerous toxins into the environment. Comment.

Two beloved — and very different — sons of Brooklyn to be the latest honorees along the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s so-called “Celebrity Path”: Late Mad magazine creator William “Bill” Gaines and legendary songwriter, Irving “Day-O” Burgie. Comment.

Park Slope: Green-Wood Cemetery did more than pay lip service to fallen veterans this Memorial Day, as its grounds were filled with the sights, sounds, and memories of the Civil War. Comment.

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

Parenting: Dozens of ways to kill a few hours with your kids this weekend. Comment.