Downtown plan: Downtown Brooklyn is licking its chops over a plan to bring the upscale Morton’s steakhouse to the Brooklyn Marriott next year. Comments (2).

Brooklyn Angle: News that Morton’s of Chicago — an upscale chain steakhouse — had leased space at the Brooklyn Marriott finally gives borough beef lovers a distinct choice. Here’s how the newcomer fares against our legendary Porterhouse purveyor, Peter Luger in our first ever steakhouse smackdown. Comments (1).

Editorial: Are there problems with all this development going on Downtown? Of course. But on the balance, Downtown’s rebirth is far better off in the hands of the market than in those of the bureaucrats. Comments (1).

Downtown: Brooklynites came from near and far to gorge on piping hot buttermilk pancakes, sausage, hash browns, eggs and every other conceivable type of breakfast fare on Tuesday as the International House of Pancakes opened its first Downtown location on Livingston Street. Comments (4).

Politics: Rep. Yvette Clarke voted against a symbolic House resolution last week supporting Christmas and America’s Christian heritage. Comments (2).

Politics: A local writer has cast District Attorney Charles Hynes as the villain in a new movie about an unlikely big-screen hero — “O’Hara.” Comments (2).

DUMBO: DUMBO real-estate titan David Walentas’s latest plan to build an apartment complex next to the Brooklyn Bridge is once again meeting intense resistance from residents’ groups in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights — despite a smaller design and new incentives from the developer. Comments (3).

DUMBO: DUMBO became Brooklyn’s 19th historic district on Tuesday — a designation that gives the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission veto power on any major alternations to buildings or new construction in the former manufacturing stronghold that is rapidly becoming a residential enclave. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: Our columnist sets out to examine the rat problem — and finds a man who shoots the vermin with an air rifle! Comments (4).

PS … I Love You: Our columnist — herself going through a bitter divorce — helps a divorced friend get through her anger by tearing up a newspaper (not ours!). Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist digs for history in Bay Ridge — and finds that no one else is bothering. Comment.

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, Walter O’Malley’s induction into the Hall of Fame, biking safely and bus service in Brooklyn. Comments (3).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Smartmom: Hepcat gets the invitation — and it makes the younger — but more neurotic — Smartmom question what she’s accomplished in life. Comment.

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

Checkin’ in with: Our interview with teen writing phenom Libba Bray. Comments (2).

Fort Greene: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill foodies are contemplating the organic crime of the century: they’re considering starting a rival version of the Park Slope Food Co-op. Comments (7).

Bay Ridge: Exasperated Verrazano Bridge commuters may soon get some relief from prolonged delays thanks to a deal between local lawmakers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to implement traffic-relief measures on the under-repair span. Comment.

Park Slope: Union Market won’t be opening its South Slope location until January — but neighbors are already wondering whether the arrival of the upscale grocer marks a tectonic shift in the neighborhood’s character or whether it simply means that a new supermarket is opening. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: The emergency room at the beleaguered Victory Memorial Hospital will remain open even after the state closes down the entire facility by Feb. 1. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: They served their country. Then they were served with fines. For serving ice! And now a Veterans of Foreign Wars post on 93rd Street is still being hounded by the Health Department for a violation dating back to May 5. Comments (1).

Fort Greene: Fort Greene is the latest neighborhood to join the city’s bike rack craze — the neighborhood is getting 72 of them. Comments (1).

Downtown: A mismanaged pre-school on Dean Street has shut down over a scandal about unsafe building conditions that led the city to temporarily close it last month. Comments (1).

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