One day after his stunning July 4 victory over six-time world hot dog-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi, Joey Chestnut put to rest persistent rumors that he will now target what many believe is competitive eating’s true Holy Grail: Kobayashi’s cow-brain-eating record. Comment.

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

Our own editor, Gersh Kuntzman, once again assumed the moderator chair at this week’s taping of Brooklyn Independent Television’s “Reporter Roundtable.” Comment.

Downtown: Defying weeks of claims that he was just “closed for renovations,” Sven Lapiner finally admitted this week that he had closed the Ben & Jerry’s parlor on Atlantic Avenue, claiming the lack of business forced his hand. Comment.

Fort Greene: The Clinton Hill lady who transforms her stately mansion every Halloween into the neighborhood’s spookiest haunted house can pin another fantastical achievement onto her lapel: a winner at the Mermaid Parade. Comment.

Fitness: Our Classified Sales Manager Adam El-Sheemy is undertaking the “Boot Camp Challenge,” a grueling, thrice-weekly workout regimen set up by two personal trainers. Here’s this week’s update. Comment.

Bay Ridge: The restoration of the Shore Parkway Greenway is finally complete. Is the Verrazano path next? Comment.

Dining: Move over, Mr. Softee, here comes the Treats Truck! Comment.

Fort Greene: A Fort Greene luminary’s plan to light a neighborhood statue — in much the same way he lighted iconic treasures like the George Washington Bridge and Washington Square Arch — has fallen through the gaping cracks of city bureaucracy. Comment.

Park Slope: A group of Park Slope parents that is concerned about the dearth of good middle schools in the neighborhood is starting a charter school that will draw fifth graders from the Slope, Sunset Park and Gowanus. Comments (2).

Music: The Polyphonic Spree barely fits into the Warsaw...how will they play a show there? Comment.

Yellow Hooker: There’s a new cellphone tower battle brewing. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist goes undercover to solve the parking mess on Pierrepont Street. Comments (3).

Event: Stray Pride comes to Park Slope. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist smells a rat. And it’s freaking her out. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe talks about keeping cool this summer. Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist discovers that the city’s best-laid plans sometimes don’t get finished. Comment.

Fort Greene: A car thief made off with a man’s car and, oddly, took the time to clean it out — plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. Comment.

Downtown: A young boy and his mother watched in abject horror as a man tried to steal their dog as they were playing with him in Cadman Plaza Park on June 19 — plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Two hoods attacked a 14-year-old boy playing a game of schoolyard basketball on June 15, police said. Plus all the crime from Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Two brothers got into an argument that turned bloody on June 21 when the older sibling pulled a knife on his baby brother — plus all the crime news from Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge. Comments (1).

What are Brooklynites doing with their midweek Fourth of July? Comments (1).

Park Slope: Sometimes, you don’t even have to leave your apartment to get robbed — though sometimes you do. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope. Comment.

Borough’s boxing boy wonder heads out to the Olympics. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom attends a PS 321 graduation — and she becomes a blubbering mess. Wait ’til next year, when the Oh So Feisty One graduates! Comment.

Bay Ridge: Developer Andrew Kohen — who wants to build a new Home Depot and hundreds of units of lucrative housing along a vacant Bay Ridge rail yard — was forced to stand silently for an hour as members of Community Board 10 committee slammed him as greedy on Monday night. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist discovers that people say the craziest thing in the sauna. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Dining: Fort Greene’s romantic new Epoca.  Comment.

Play’s the Thing: Here’s our columnist’s annual Cyclones edition of the old “Who’s On First” routine. Comment.

Letters: This week’s mailbag includes reaction to our interview with conservative columnist Amity Shlaes — plus letters on Marty Markowitz’s run for mayor, getting high, development Downtown, public and private schools and Coney Island Comment.

Dining: Can a vegetarian diner make comfort food like the real deal? Comment.

Cyclones: Rep. Peter King stopped by Keyspan this weekend, plus other Ups & Downs items on Grady Hinchman, Zach Lutz, Joe Pignatano and the peculiar clubhouse game, Guitar Hero. Comment.

Red Hook: Remember all that talk about weddings and other glitzy parties at the cruise ship terminal in Red Hook? Well, they’ll be strictly BYOB — bring your own burners! Comments (1).

Dining: The last of the seltzer men. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: The three Councilmembers who represent communities surrounding the Gowanus Canal have united to demand several key amenities in the city’s planned redevelopment of the historically industrial area, demanding affordable housing and low-rise buildings. Comment.

Park Slope: A tightly packed row of narrow brownstone homes could end a bitter dispute over a notorious building that was once slated to rise in the famous view corridor between the statue of Minerva in Green-Wood Cemetery and the Statue of Liberty. Comment.

Dining: Do we love a good egg cream? U-Bet! Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: The Boerum Hill school that has been ordered by the city to share space with the new Khalil Gilbran International Academy is at least getting lots of perks in return. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: City officials told an angry crowd of Boerum Hill residents that the Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue at Smith Street will definitely reopen, squelching any lingering hopes that the grim, 11-story Big House would be sold to a developer more in tune with the increasingly posh, residential neighborhood. Comment.

Development: Mayor Bloomberg’s development guru is now running the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Comment.

DUMBO: Developer David Walentas has proposed to add another castle to his DUMBO fiefdom: a $200-million, 400-apartment, commercial and middle school project on Dock Street, between Water and Front streets — the same location where a similar Walentas proposal was defeated in 2004. Comment.

Downtown plan: Here’s a new rendering of a glitzy new mall on Fulton Street in Downtown. Comment.

Downtown plan: An unlikely trio of Brooklyn politicians wants the city to revisit a three-year-old plan that was supposed to foment a business boom in Downtown Brooklyn, but has instead sparked a luxury apartment gold rush. Comment.

Coney Island: Coney Island developer Joe Sitt is now hawking for a “binding agreement” with local leaders to make his $1.5-billion amusement and hotel fantasyland become reality — hinting this week at a Atlantic-Yards-style solution to his ongoing problem of gaining support for his glitzy proposal. Comment.

How to catch the fireworks this Fourth of July. Comment.

Downtown: The floating pool — will finally open for swimming, soaking, and general relief-seeking on July 4, sources told The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.

Park Slope: Grand Army Plaza could be transformed from an intimidating, speeder-friendly highway in the center of Brooklyn to a free-flowing, Euro-style traffic circle, under a revolutionary plan that continues to gain speed of its own. Comment.

Six-time world hot-dog-eating champion Takeru Kobayashi has been injured and may not compete in next week’s 90th annual competition at Nathan’s in Coney Island. Comment.

Editorial: The latest Ratner sweetheart deal is the worst of them all. Comment.

The Explainer: How did a state Assembly bill designed to stimulate affordable housing end up including a huge tax break for Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner? The Explainer breaks it down. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s sweetheart deal got a cherry on top last week after a state lawmaker slipped in a last-minute amendment to a housing reform bill that will shave $175 million off the developer’s costs. Comment.