Park Slope: The G train will be permanently extended to Church Avenue and the dour Fourth Avenue station will get a complete overhaul as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $250-million work along the elevated portion of the F train between Carroll Gardens and Park Slope. Comments (2).

The city has suddenly started taking a hard-line against a crime that Brooklyn businesses have committed with impunity for decades — putting signs in front of their stores. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy, whose son Sam died in a horrific bike crash on the Manhattan Bridge last week, is using the tragedy to demand more bicycle safety. Comments (4).

Bay Ridge: Here’s one way to fight litter: A Bay Ridge superintendent has posted signs calling his tenants “stupid” and “retarded” because of the sloppy way they put out their garbage. Comments (2).

Downtown plan: Tyler Hospitality, the firm building a 32-story Staybridge Suites motel in Times Square, will bring a Holiday Inn to Schermerhorn Street, a thoroughfare that has recently seen a wave of new investment. Comment.

Editorial: Some elected officials have come out against the mayor’s plan for Coney Island. Where were they when the mayor was making the same mistake at Atlantic Yards? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Barclays Bank — the $800-billion company that will pay Bruce Ratner $400 million for the naming rights at the Atlantic Yards arena — has co-founded a non-profit that will dole out $1 million a year in grants to Brooklyn organizations, but critics called the sum patronizing. Comments (4).

Smartmom: The Oh So Feisty One gets sick but Smartmom is the one who needs medication! Comments (1).

Parenting: All the action for you and your kids! Comment.

The city’s new school ratings system — which sullied the reputations of some of Brooklyn’s star educational institutions — spread like celebrity gossip through the linoleum-floored hallways of Brooklyn schools, into Brooklyn brownstones, and even into the very worldviews of Brownstone Brooklyn parents. Comment.

Downtown: A string of vandalism targeting religious groups continued this week, as banners hanging at synagogues and churches in Brooklyn Heights were torn down by some not-so-merry pranksters. Comment.

The former principal of the city’s first Arabic-language school — who was forced to resign in a controversy over an “Intifada NYC” T-shirt — sued Mayor Bloomberg, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein and Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott on Monday, saying that their “punitive, extreme and outrageous” actions “recklessly caused severe emotional distress” from a resignation that was demanded so that the mayor could announce it on his radio show. Comment.

Frank Viola, the Bath Beach pioneer of pigeon racing passed away last month at age 87 — and his death has left a void in the sport. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Borough President Markowitz has named Community Board 2 chair Shirley McRae to be the new Brooklyn representative to the city Planning Commission, The Brooklyn Paper has learned. Comments (1).

Fort Greene: The man behind Brownstoner — the go-to site for Brooklynites obsessed with buying real estate — now wants to help you furnish those apartments. Comments (4).

Williamsburg: Greenpointers skeptical about a claim by ExxonMobil that its cleanup of the massive underground oil spill under Greenpoint will speed up later this year are demanding an outside consultant be hired to make sure the oil giant keeps its promises. Comment.

Downtown: The city is seeking an artist to put a mural on a DUMBO eyesore. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: City workers removed historic cobblestones from Beard Street in front of the new Ikea store this week. Comment.

Downtown: Gentlemen, start your drooling. That’s about all you can do right now, given that no one is willing to positively ID the “national chain” with close to a century of experience in the food trade that will be coming to the corner of State and Court streets. Comment.

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

In the spirit of encouraging a free exchange of ideas, The Brooklyn Paper makes this space available to our readers. Comment.

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with missives about Barclays, pigeons, two old sisters and restaurateur Nick Monte. Comment.