Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist goes to Ebbets Field on the 50th anniversary of the last game played there and discovers that today’s Brooklyn is as distant from Pee Wee and Duke and Preacher and Oisk as the Earth is from a star on Orion’s belt. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: It looks official: Michelle got the townhouse. The amicable rift in Brooklyn’s A-list couple — Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams — has ended with the Aussie heartthrob apparently moving out. Comments (2).

Bridge ‘Park’: Perhaps it was “Bard” to happen, but a hip-hop festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park has been booted to make room for Shakespeare. Comment.

Downtown: Vandals spray-painted at least 19 swastikas and left anti-Semitic flyers around Brooklyn Heights Monday night, a few hours after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spewed anti-Semitic rhetoric in a speech at Columbia University. Many believe there is a connection. Comments (2).

Atlantic Yards: Two of the final holdouts in the Atlantic Yards footprint have quietly settled with developer Bruce Ratner, a move that signifies that the opposition to Brooklyn’s largest real-estate project may be entering its endgame. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Red Hook: New York City Transit has agreed to next year reroute the B61 and the B77 bus lines to stop at a corner of Red Hook that is fast turning blue — Ikea blue. Comments (1).

Politics: Councilman David Yassky — whose hopes to win a seat in Congress were quashed last year by his Council colleague Yvette Clarke — has reportedly declared that he will run again, this time to replace city Comptroller Bill Thompson, himself an aspirant for higher office. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A time capsule that was supposed to be unearthed in 2053 has been dug up already. Blame the real-estate developers! Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: The city is searching for a new principal to head its controversial Arabic language and culture academy, posting the “help wanted” ad on the Department of Education Web site. Comments (1).

Williamsburg Waterfront: Three conjoined buildings at the dormant Domino Sugar factor on the Williamsburg waterfront have been declared city landmarks, though the status does not affect the plant’s beloved sign, which has the misfortune of hanging on a less aesthetically significant, 1960s-era building. Comments (1).

Downtown: George Clooney and John Malkovich are turning heads in the Heights — as set designers turn the neighborhood into Georgetown. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Councilman Domenic Recchia will go after five-term Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) — but Fossella is already firing back. Comments (1).

Checkin’ in with: The Brooklyn Paper checks in with the borough’s three new MacArthur geniuses. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: City and state officials don’t intend to consider a community-based alternative development plan for the Prospect Heights site of Bruce Ratner’s controversial Atlantic Yards project that was unveiled this week. Comments (1).

The Explainer: Why did a group of activists hatch a new development plan for the Prospect Heights rail yards that Bruce Ratner has already been promised for Atlantic Yards? The Explainer breaks it down. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: The only thing worse than being stuck on the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway is being stuck living next to it — and now it’s inspired its own blog! Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: Welcome to 1988, members! Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A group of Prospect Heights activists finally did what neither the city nor Bruce Ratner seemed able to do: clean up Pacific Street. Comment.

Williamsburg: Perhaps it’s appropriate that the Non-Committals beat the John Cougar Mellancamps. Comments (1).

Beside the Point: Love food? Love quantity? Hate high prices? Greenpoint is your neighborhood. Here’s a foodie’s-eye view. Comment.

Fort Greene: The price of a gigantic office suite at One Hanson Place — the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank office tower that’s being converted into luxury condos — has been slashed by nearly 10 percent from the previous asking price of $17 million. Comments (1).

Downtown plan: The Bloomberg Administration co-named a stretch of Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn “Abolitionist Place” last Thursday — even as the city is planning to tear down historic houses on that block that may have served as stations on the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Tornado-ravaged residents of Brooklyn are finally about to get some cash, according to the Federal Emergency Management Administration. Comment.

A high school that would train students for careers in advertising will open in Brooklyn next fall if the Department of Education approves a proposal being spearheaded by Borough President Markowitz. Comment.

Greene Acres: The three founders of a nearly finished Fort Greene music venue and art gallery that the city intends to raze to make way for a new home for a Manhattan dance group in the BAM Cultural District need to find a new home of their own — now. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Our columnist confronts crime — and her own white guilt. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Seven weeks after the once-in-a-lifetime tornado touched down in Bay Ridge, life for the handful of households in the tornado’s angry path has not returned to normal. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: At least one woman — our columnist — is not so happy about the arrival of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: A movement against a local crackhouse began with a mouse click. Comments (3).

Smartmom: Smartmom follows the supposedly independent Oh So Feisty One to school. And all heck breaks out! Comment.

Fort Greene: Activists commandeered a parking space on Myrtle Avenue last week and turned it into a park. Hey, drivers: Take a hike. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Parishioners of the tornado-ravaged Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church finally returned to their building on Sunday. Comment.

Letters: Our mailbag is full with responses to our F-train express editorial, plus notes about Coney Island, Duffield Street, the express bus from Bay Ridge, the fake trolley in Prospect Park, the ongoing raccoon invasion, and our recent awards from the Independent Free Papers of America. Comment.

Park Slope: The renovation of the Park Slope Armory has … military drum roll … been delayed again. Comment.

Williamsburg: It doesn’t look like much, but this little piece of factory at the corner of Meserole and Leonard streets just sold for $5,075,000. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Two eco-friendly additions are coming to the neighborhood long known as a destination for car-burning arsonists and smog. Comment.

Downtown: Even though they didn’t make any money, organizers of last week’s “fight night” fundraiser for DUMBO are calling it a success. Of course it was: David Walentas ended up in a dunk tank! Comment.

Park Slope: The Park Slope Civic Council — fresh from rallying the troops to defeat the city’s controversial “One-Way Seventh Avenue” plan earlier this summer — now has its sights set on fixing an “unsafe” situation on much-busier Fourth Avenue. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Two Hondas crash — and we’ve got the pictures! Comment.

Bay Ridge: Head for the Ragamuffin Parade this Saturday and the Third Avenue Festival on Sunday. Comment.

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

Parenting: All the fun stuff for you and your family. Comment.