Ever wonder whether the rack you just locked your bike on is secure? Well, wonder no more. It isn’t. A Boerum Hill woman found that out the hard way this week. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom has always been a strong believer in public schools — so no wonder she gets angry when friends leave PS 321 for the supposedly greener pastures of private school. Comment.

Editorial: Grabbing a beer on the new Fourth Avenue provides an object lesson in the difference between good development and bad development. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Sen. Chuck Schumer ate his way into the fight to save the Red Hook food vendors, grabbing some delicacies last Saturday and saying the city should abandon a plan to sell the group’s vending permits on the open market — a scheme that many believe will lead to higher permit fees for the mom and pop vendors and competition from deep-pocketed corporations. Comment.

Park Slope: The raccoon invasion continues! Now a woman in Sunset Park is feeding one with a baby bottle! And we have the pictures to prove it. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: It’s the beginning of the end: A slice of pizza has hit $2.30 in Carroll Gardens — and the shop’s owner says it’s “just a matter of time” before a perfect storm of soaring cheese prices and higher fuel costs hit Brooklyn with the ultimate insult: the $3 slice. Comment.

Fort Greene: The late, great Godfather of Soul’s doppelganger, Black Velvet, charmed Fort Greene’s silver-haired set with a sex-charged, early bird luncheon and performance of James Brown tunes at the Masonic Temple in Fort Greene on June 6. Comment.

Downtown plan: Protesters and elected officials rallied last Friday in Downtown to protest the use of non-union labor in the construction of twin hotels. Comment.

Downtown: A building housing a legendary, century-old Atlantic Avenue bar that was once so popular with Mohawk Indian ironworkers that it became an informal union hall is for sale. Comment.

Park Slope: The local community board wants the city to deny developer Shaya Boymelgreen a key permit until he fixes a park damaged during construction of his Novo condo. Comment.

Politics: Vice President Dick Cheney must be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” a Brooklyn lawmaker charged last week, joining an elite group of seven members of Congress calling for Veep’s firing. Comment.

Downtown: A Brooklyn Heights councilman wants every building in the city to be partially powered by the stuff that comes out of the fryer at your local diner by 2009. Comment.

Park Slope: Shocker of the week: Park Slope’s community board wants gay marriage to be legal. A public hearing held by Community Board 6 at Park Slope United Methodist Church last Monday ended with the unanimous passage of a resolution in favor of Gov. Spitzer’s bill to grant marriage licenses regardless of gender. Comment.

Politics: For once, Borough President Markowitz wasn’t the biggest personality in the room. Markowitz hosted celebrity impersonator Howie V. Cher (left) and transgender beauty Clover Honey (impersonating Mae West, right) to usher in this year’s Brooklyn Pride festivities. Comment.

Fort Greene: A Fort Greene chef, wielding a pan full of olive oil, chased an adult-tricycle thief on Sunday, sparking a madcap manhunt, a tricycle-car crash, and the rescue of a neighborhood icon. Comment.

Downtown: Foes of artificial rubber grass were dealt a resounding blow on Tuesday, when the city’s Parks Commissioner declared Cadman Plaza Park — complete with a new Astroturf playing field and a gorgeous, $2.9-million facelift — officially open. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Rep. Vito Fossella caught a huge break at his press conference about security lapses at a Bay Ridge fuel pipeline: a hole in the supposedly secure fence! Comment.

Carroll Gardens: The last feral dog along the changing Red Hook waterfront has been caught, signaling the end of wild times on Ikea’s new home turf. Comment.

Downtown: DUMBO’s only yeshiva has closed — but there’s no Jewish Exodus going on; the yeshiva’s founders are about to open a community center nearby. Comment.

Park Slope: Doing the lord’s work took on a new meaning as a massive antique chandelier at Park Slope’s Old First Reformed Church was scrubbed for the first time in 12 years. Comment.

Rezoning: Tempers flared this week as Carroll Gardens residents argued over how best to control “overdevelopment” in the neighborhood. Comments (1).

Park Slope: Workers are indeed putting the finishing touches on a $16-million renovation of the Park Slope Armory — but that doesn’t mean neighbors will be lifting weights and running laps any time soon. Comment.

Bay Ridge: They may have talked the talk, but could they walk the walk? Two aspiring travel writers tried to walk all 150 miles of New York City — but only one survived. He’s from Bay Ridge, of course. Comment.

Perspective: Our columnist decodes the final episode of “The Sopranos.” Whaddyagonnado? Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist imagines Tony Soprano doing business in Brooklyn Heights. Comment.

Brooklyn South: An army travels on its stomach — so, naturally, do the papusa partisans who support the Red Hook food vendors. Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist wonders why Department of Education officials can’t learn the simplest lesson of schooling: talk to the parents! Comment.

Yellow Hooker: The Daily News comes to Bay Ridge for a listening tour — but our columnist thinks there’s a better hometown paper (hint: it’s the one you’re reading right now). Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist decides to stay on Community Board 6, despite the turmoil. Here’s why. Comment.

Letters: Lots of mail about our coverage of Prospect Heights’ “tween bandits,” ugly buildings on Fourth Avenue, the resignation of a Community Board 6 member, Rudy Giuliani and, of course, the Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest. Comments (1).

The Fire Department closed their gym as unsafe, but that didn’t stop a team of young Brooklyn athletes from winning a statewide championship this month. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Funny thing about life: More people were interested in the finale of “The Sopranos” than the possibility of a real life mob war going on in Bensonhurst. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Readers may remember the last time Bensonhurst’s Paulie Malignaggi was in a title bout: he ended up on the receiving end of a hook from Miguel Cotto and on our front page under the headline, “Duck, Paulie, duck!” Comment.

Bay Ridge: A college thesis has finally made history: Dyker Heights’s famed “Saitta House” has made it to the National Register of Historic Places — thanks to a New York University medical student who did his college thesis on the neighborhood’s under-appreciated history. Comment.

Our classified salesman Adam El-Sheemy is undertaking the “Boot Camp Challenge,” a grueling, thrice-weekly workout regimen set up by two personal trainers. Every week, he’ll give us an update on how he’s doing. Here is how he fared during week two. Comment.

Sebastiaan Vonk, the 14-year-old whose quest to find the family of World War II hero Lawrence Shea was documented in The Brooklyn Paper in January, has finally linked up with Shea’s American descendents and gotten what he really craved: Shea’s story. Comment.

Downtown: Call us crazy, but we kinda expected Bill Murray to be, you know, funny. But, alas, he wasn’t cracking jokes during the 12th annual “Poetry Walk” across the Brooklyn Bridge this week. Comment.

Parenting: All the great ways to keep your kids entertained this weekend. Comment.

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