Park Slope: Horses at a beloved stable and riding academy in Kensington are going increasingly skittish, thanks to the construction of an apartment building next door. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: City officials have reportedly trimmed a $300-million tax break for Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner that was rubberstamped by state lawmakers last month. Comment.

Editorial: Borough President Markowitz championed the MTA’s land giveaway to pal Bruce Ratner, yet now says MTA mismanagement is behind a proposed transit fare hike. Markowitz shares the blame Comment.

Beside the Point: The Domino sugar refinery in Williamsburg may be an important relic of 19th-century industrial architecture, but a far better reason for preserving it is the part it has played in the history of Brooklyn and of America. A gripping historical tale. Comments (1).

Rezoning: Dyker Heights will have its re-zoning, and eat it too. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: A co-op board decides to cut down a tree to save some cash. Comment.

Art: Vandals have destroyed Charon Luebbers’s “Urban Fossil Bird Woman,” a key part of the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition’s 25th anniversary show in the park at the foot of Main Street in DUMBO. Comment.

Art: Apparently nobody told Santiago Infantino that the dress code for at Green-Wood Cemetery is somber. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist is sick of all the rubber bands that his letter carrier dumps on his block. Comments (1).

Smartmom: Smartmom went to Block Island — alone — and did not want to come back. Comment.

Letters: Our mailbag is full with letters about Borough President Markowitz’s run for mayor, Barack Obama’s run for president, a state bill to ban the distribution of some flyers and the conclusion of the Arena Bagels saga. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist searches for meaning — and guilt-free snacks — at Trader Joe’s. Comment.

Greene Acres: Our columnist’s old Fort Greene digs — the $750 three-bedroom apartment that she called home a mere four years ago — was one of Brownstoner.com’s “condos of the day” last week. Naturally, she tried to go home again. Comment.

Fort Greene: A self-styled superhero — who keeps her identity as hidden as any good Marvel or DC hero — is going around the neighborhood snapping disposable and cellphone-camera photos of perilous construction practices. All that’s missing is a cape and a utility belt. Comment.

Parenting: A week’s worth of fun for you and your family. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist tells the story of a homeless man, a pickup truck and a woman with a big heart. Comment.

Politics: Councilman Charles Barron makes it official — he’s running for borough president. Comment.

Politics: Borough President Markowitz put “Lighten Up Brooklyn” on a diet this year — sponsoring just three days of walking tours instead of a monthlong weight-loss initiative. Comment.

Park Slope: The Brooklyn Paper got a first peek inside Brooklyn’s first boutique hotel — Hotel Le Bleu — and discovered a very modern, tasteful, 48-room, glass-and-steel complex. The room is beautiful. The view, not so much. Comments (1).

Art: Two stories above the frozen fish and live crustaceans of the Red Hook Fairway, a man who has spent his adult life pursuing the Alaska King Crab has opened a gallery for the art he fell in love while at sea. Comment.

Red Hook: City officials are on the brink of rolling out a new development plan for the Red Hook waterfront — a move that is expected to keep cargo ships on the piers and scuttle a plan to expand the Brooklyn cruise ship terminal, borough officials said this week. Comment.

Park Slope: A dog-eared Park Slope bookstore will close unless a buyer comes to its rescue before the end of August. Comment.

Veteran Brooklyn Paper covergirl Jane Kuntzman holds the newest member of The Paper family: her baby brother, Benjamin Henry Kuntzman. Comment.

Music: Tout le monde was at Dan Zanes’s “Celebrate Brooklyn!” concert on Sunday — even Harry Potter. Comment.

Park Slope: Cyclists and local business owners are already fuming over bike lanes that were installed earlier this month on Ninth Street. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Williamsburg: The old Domino Sugar refinery complex on the Williamsburg waterfront will be transformed into 2,220 units of housing, commercial space and four acres of public park under a $1.3-billion development plan unveiled this week. Comment.

Williamsburg: What happened to the ghost bike memorial near the Williamsburg Bridge? Comments (2).

Fort Greene: Animal care officials are asking for help from anyone who may have witnessed the abuse of a two-year-old Rottweiler in Clinton Hill last month, during which the pup was apparently tied with an electrical cord and hit in the face. Comment.

Downtown: Why does Cadman Plaza Park flood whenever it rains? The Parks Department says, “Don’t blame us.” Comment.

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