Editorial: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. Comment.

The Independent, a British national newspaper, published on Friday an account of the controversy surrounding Barclays bank in Brooklyn. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A prominent Fort Greene minister will lead a protest to condemn Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner’s $400-million deal with Barclays, a bank linked to the slave trade. Comment.

Editorial: The truth is the first casualty of development in Brooklyn. Otherwise, how would today’s generation of Master Builders pick your pocket? Comment.

Atlantic Yards: An Atlantic Yards opponent who still owns land in the footprint of the skyscraper-and-arena-project has won a small victory against developer Bruce Ratner — though it may not keep him out of jail. Comment.

Letters: The Paper’s mailbag is once again filled with anger from Atlantic Yards supporters — plus some support. Comment.

Coney Island: City planners have thrown up a roadblock to an ambitious plan to turn Coney Island’s rundown amusement area into a Vegas-style theme park complete with a hotel, a new roller-coaster, entertainment venues and hundreds of units of housing. The housing, apparently, is the problem. Comments (2).

Development: Donald Trump is so jealous of Bruce Ratner that he now has his eye on Brooklyn. Comment.

What would you call five grown men dressed only in black bikini underwear and bowties, who tie themselves to a shopping cart and go careening through the streets of Brooklyn in freezing temperatures with a radio blasting stripper music at full volume? If you’d call them “Idiots,” you’re not the only one. So would they. That’s why they call it the “Idiotarod.” Comment.

Bay Ridge: It was a (really big) bundle of joy for Bensonhurst lovebirds Rosa and Michael Arena on Monday morning. Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist poses the eternal question: How many coffee joints can Seventh Avenue support? Comment.

Brooklyn South: A psychic on Atlantic Avenue just went out of business. Our columnist examines why she couldn’t predict her own future. Comments (1).

Bridge ‘Park’: Now even supporters of the state’s “Brooklyn Bridge Park” plan are questioning how much luxury housing must be in the development. Comment.

Bridge ‘Park’: Long-overdue renovations to a key stretch of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway would destroy a soon-to-be-built park on the waterfront — and the state agency doing the roadwork isn’t talking to the state agency building the adjacent park. Comment.

Bridge ‘Park’: The designers of the so-called Brooklyn Bridge Park have called in the “old German hippies” to design a funky new playground. Comment.

Mill Basin: Leonid Brezhnev once gave a speedboat to Richard Nixon — and now a Brooklyn man says he has it and wants $1 million for it on eBay. Is it really the boat? Read on. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: The 86th Street R train station will get a new staircase, safer and wider entrances, a nifty new tile job and a fresh coat of paint, thanks to $7 million in transit funding secured by local officials. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist bemoans the sorry state of the Miss America pageant, which hasn’t had a winner from New York, let alone the northeast!, since 1984. Comments (1).

Greene Acres: Does Murder Avenue need a cheese shop? Our columnist tries to find out. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Good help is hard to find — especially when you own a butcher shop. The owners of Frank and Eddie’s, a popular meat market at 7502 Third Ave., found that out the hard way. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Everyone is focusing on Bruce Ratner’s deal with a slavery-linked bank, but meanwhile, the city is about to tear down homes linked to the Underground Railroad. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A Bay Ridge councilman wants to put more money — $400 more — in your wallet than Mayor Bloomberg. Here’s how he’ll do it. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Ship Ahoy, Captain, dead ahead on Dean Street! The Paper solves the mystery of the beached ship at 214 Dean St. Comment.

Fort Greene: Developers have sparked a gold rush in Wallabout — the long-beleaguered area north of Myrtle Avenue? Never heard the term “Wallabout”? Don’t worry. You will. Comment.

Downtown: A Brooklyn Heights food-lover has quit her local produce-buying club, sending shockwaves through the organic food community and, more dishearteningly, her yoga class. Comment.

Park Slope: Where is the “Cheers” crowd going to go now that Snooky’s is gone? Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom goes to Two Boots and starts reeling in the years. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: For some reason, mystics outnumber book stores in Bay Ridge. Our columnist ponders the eternal question. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was on hand, but the real hero was on the wall. Det. Richard DeGaetano, 47, a 21-year veteran who died in July from stomach cancer, was honored with the unveiling of a memorial plaque at his old stomping grounds, Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comment.

Fort Greene: The Parks Department sponsored a game of “Fort Greene Jeopardy” in the park the other day. Two people showed up. One was our reporter. Our reporter lost. Comment.

Park Slope: Holy Name School in Windsor Terrace is back from the brink. Parents get the credit. Comment.

Red Hook: Longshoreman in Red Hook believe Gov. Spitzer will save them from a city plan to shut down the cargo port. Comment.

This week’s community meetings. Comment.