Perspective: The poet laureate of Park Slope weighs in on the recent glut of articles about the neighborhood. Comment.

Downtown: The once trash-strewn parking lot at Pearl and Water streets in DUMBO has been transformed into what supporters say will become a neighborhood hangout, but others feel isn’t worth the valuable parking spaces it is sitting on. Comment.

Fitness: Our Classified Sales Manager Adam El-Sheemy has finally completed the “Boot Camp Challenge,” a grueling, thrice-weekly workout regimen set up by two personal trainers. Each week, he’s given us his scintillating report about the struggle. Now, he revels just how much less of him there is to love. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Residents of Dahlgren Place won a small victory this week when the city agreed to finally install a speed limit sign on the fast-moving street. Comment.

Downtown: A Downtown Brooklyn homeless outreach center — which has recently sparked complaints of drug-addicts shooting up on brownstone stoops and homeless people using vestibules as toilets — is moving to a less-populated street. Comment.

Downtown: DUMBO’s quaint cobblestone streets will be taken over next Saturday by thrill-seeking bike messengers in a renegade “alleycat” race across the neighborhood. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A Dean Street house that was the site of a bizarre attempt to seal in a family that was still living inside is on the market again. Comment.

Park Slope: Rev. Billy was arrested last month. His crime? Reciting the First Amendment to cops. Comment.

Music: Are the McCarren Pool hipsters ready for the ‘Ponderosa Stomp’? Comment.

Bay Ridge: It’s getting ugly on 81st Street, where tenants of an apartment building — furious over the installation of cellphone equipment on their roof — confronted workers and nearly came to blows with their landlord’s relative after construction crews began installing more phone machinery. Comments (1).

Books: Grown-up Harry Potter party makes kids vanish! Comment.

The famed “Ice Cream Man” finally did Brooklyn last week — and everyone from our famously dieting Borough President to steamed kids to coiffed hipsters loved him. Comments (1).

Art: The Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition takes DUMBO.  Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A valuable stash of copper cable wire was stolen from the Ikea construction site on Beard Street in Red Hook sometime between June 22 and 26, police said — plus all the other crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Boerum Hill. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A 72-year-old woman lost a lot of time last week — $7,500 in valuable watches was stolen from her apartment. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Construction on the Hamilton Avenue Bridge, a key Gowanus Canal span that carries traffic to and from the Battery Tunnel, has so far caused few traffic problems since beginning on June 30, even though half of the bridge’s eight driving lanes are closed. Comment.

Cyclones: Here are this week’s game summaries. Comment.

Cyclones: As promised in our last issue, we will now discuss the Cyclones’ impressive pitching staff — not an easy task since the Cyclones have 17 hurlers. Comment.

Downtown: A fashionable DUMBO office building is in the midst of a crime spree featuring a thief who knocks through sheetrock walls to steal goods — plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown. Comment.

Fort Greene: A 14-year-old would-be bank robber was foiled by a cop who happened to be in the Atlantic Avenue branch when the pint-sized perp put his failed plan into action on July 5 — plus all the crime from the 88th Precinct. Comment.

Park Slope: A Yankee-loving bank robber was foiled by a fast-thinking teller who called cops after tricking the villain into believing she had gone into a back room to get some money — plus all the crime from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Music: The Brooklyn Philharmonic’s new music therapy programcould be instrumental to good health. Comment.

Park Slope: The Department of Transportation kept its word and, almost overnight, added bike lanes to Ninth Street in Park Slope last week. Comment.

Play’s the Thing: Our columnist recalls 1951, when the Giants stole — literally, stole — the pennant from the Dodgers Comment.

Cyclones: A woman wigs out on the Cyclone — and our reporter is there! Comment.

Cyclones: Brandan Kawal may be from California, but the version of the Dodgers that he loves is from Brooklyn. Comment.

Dining: The best cold coffee in Brooklyn. Comments (1).

Park Slope: The former Trinidadian Olympian arrested last week and charged with raping two women in Prospect Park in June admitted that he had sex with his victims, but claims the encounters were consensual, prosecutors said this week. Comment.

Cyclones: Ballplayers will do almost anything for good luck. Some tie their shoes differently or eat only chicken before games. Jason Jacobs tried a mustache. Comment.

Politics: Press release, press release, in our e-mail, who is the greenest pol of all? Comment.

Fort Greene: The city announced it will squeeze a center for suspended students into one of Fort Greene’s best-performing middle schools, just days after it bowed to community outrage and quashed a plan to house a similar center in another junior high just a few blocks away. Comments (2).

Dining: What’s the deal with iced coffee? Comment.

Cyclones: Bubba Trammell is a former major leaguer — and a former Met to boot — but when he came to town last week as a member of the Aberdeen Ironbirds, the Cyclones pitching staff struck him out four times in eight at-bats. Comment.

Cyclones: Cyclones second baseman Micah Schilling was a first-round draft pick straight out of his Louisiana high school in 2002, making him one of the top prospects in all of baseball. So why is he still in Class-A ball? Comment.

The borough’s top spots for making sure out-of-towners don’t stay with you. Comment.

An unlikely local love nest for your in-town summer vacation. Comment.

Sandlot baseball has finally gone 21st century. The great ball field tradition of pick-up baseball — which school ballplayers from the days of Babe Ruth — has been revived in Park Slope with a little help from the Internet. Comment.

Dining: Can Oven withstand the heat on Henry Street? Comment.

Parenting: All the family fun around the borough Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom has been on a steady diet of Ingmar Bergman movies — and now she knows why. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: If Andrew Kohen’s plan to build a Home Depot in Bay Ridge is defeated, you can thank — or blame — Bruce Ratner. Comment.

Dining: Celebrate French independence with two of the best new spots in town. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: The mystery “illegal” parker of Pierrepont Street has broken his silence! To our columnist! Exclusively! Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist decodes the Grand Army Plaza plan. Comment.

Greene Acres: The city finally takes on God. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist takes a bite out of the $11 toothbrush that’s now on sale on Smith Street. Comment.

Books: ‘Local’ comic book writer Brian Wood immortalizes the borough. Comment.

Letters: This week’s mailbag is full of letters commenting on other letter writers’ letters — plus missives about Grand Army Plaza, a school that wants to strip the Longfellow name off the front, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the new floating pool, a group of wacky artists on Eldert Street, the hope for an F express train and, of course, Atlantic Yards. Comment.

Harold Rogovin, the father of Brooklyn Paper Publisher Celia Weintrob and a metal-working master who participated in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and the domes of Ellis Island two decades ago, died Saturday, June 30, in Tampa, Fla., after suffering a stroke in December. Comment.

Bay Ridge: State Sen. Marty Golden hosts a “Harry Potter” party. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A developer’s plan to build apartments on a gritty block in the Columbia Street Waterfront District has turned into a near parody of the old saga of builders and their displaced tenants. This time, the displaced tenants are not the needy, the sick or the homeless, but pampered cats and dogs, fancy costumes, and lush foliage. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comments (1).

The Brooklyn Paper was one of 20 news outlets nationwide that received a letter about an apparent plot against investment giant, Goldman Sachs. “Goldman Sachs. Hundreds will die. We are inside. You can’t stop us,” read the letter, which was signed, “A.Q.U.S.A.” Comment.

Fort Greene: Cops arrested a Brooklyn activist on Saturday morning after he tried to use his cellphone to photograph the allegedly brutal arrest of a Muslim man in Clinton Hill, according to the lawyer representing both men. Comments (1).

Perspective: Our man inside the bun gives us his exclusive report from the Nathan’s hot dog–eating contest on July 4. Comment.

Sure, Joey Chestnut won the hot dog-eating championship — but he now says he won’t touch Takeru Kobayashi’s greatest achievement: his cow-brain-eating record. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist finds a new American hero at the hot dog-eating contest. Hint: It ain’t the American. Comment.

Our own irascible shutterbug, Tom Callan, who has been shooting Brooklyn for the better part of three decades, has opened up his files for a retrospective of his work opening next Friday in Red Hook. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Despite considerable anger, Community Board 10 backed a developer’s plan for a Home Depot on Eighth Avenue in Bay Ridge Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner will reap a whopping 50-percent profit on his Atlantic Yards investment, a prominent Brooklyn lawmaker charged this week as he called for an end to the massive taxpayer subsidy of the mega-development. Comment.

Politics: City Hall has moved to Brooklyn for two weeks — and Mayor Bloomberg’s staffers say they are already thinking better than ever! Comment.