Fort Greene: Myrtle Avenue’s trees are getting a long-needed trim. Comment.

Downtown: How hot is Brooklyn Heights real estate? Two buildings and a vacant lot on Pineapple Street were bought this week by a New Jersey developer for $7.4 million. Comment.

Downtown: The “Underground Railroad” is surrounded. Three properties on Duffield Street — lumped together by their real-estate broker as the “Albee Square Assemblage” — are on sale for a cool asking price of $33 million. Comment.

Park Slope: A long-shuttered Polish church on 15th Street will be torn down to make way for apartments, the latest house of worship to end up as housing in the former Borough of Churches. Comment.

BAM District: Community leaders are crying foul at the city’s decision to give a Manhattan-based dance troupe prime real estate at the center of the developing BAM Cultural District. Comment.

Heights Lowdown: The fire is out at St. Charles Borromeo School in Brooklyn Heights, but the building is hotter than ever — thanks to a decision by the Brooklyn Diocese to close the school and sell or lease the property. Comment.

Park Slope: The first floor of a popular children’s gym remains closed, despite a promise that it was to have reopened by now — seven weeks after the Fire Department shut it down. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Boerum Hill cyclist Sergio Revah is trying to find people who saw him get hit by a Cadillac coupe traveling east on notoriously dangerous Atlantic Avenue (a.k.a. the “avenue of death and destruction”). Comment.

Bay Ridge: Ovington Avenue and Senator Street are both worthy of landmark status. But which is prettier? Comment.

Bay Ridge: The MTA leaves Bay Ridge R-train riders stranded at rush hour by taking trains out of service, Councilman Vince Gentile fumed this week. Comment.

Music: Pre-teen rockers Care Bears on Fire take Red Hook. Comment.

Park Slope: A popular Seventh Avenue candy store is robbed — and all the other crime stories of the week. Comment.

Bay Ridge: A landlord-tenant dispute got ugly — and bloody — in Bay Ridge. Comment.

Cinema: “Pimps, Pigs and Prostitutes” all come to BAM. Comment.

Our columnist decries that Brooklyn Dodger great Gil Hodges was again denied the Hall of Fame this week. Comment.

Event: Southpaw hosts Chabad of Prospect Heights Purim party Comment.

Fort Greene: A naked snow goddess made a short-lived appearance on a Fort Greene ledge this week, arousing admiration among area neighbors, before finally succumbing to Tuesday’s above-freezing temperatures. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A former Assemblyman’s field of dreams along the Gowanus Canal may be running into the reality of the real-estate business. Comment.

Postpartum expression hits Brooklyn blogs. Comment.

Greene Acres: Fort Greene and Clinton Hill join the race to complain about the Postal Service. Comment.

Brooklyn South: Why does the new Starbucks have two espresso machines while the old Starbucks three blocks away have one? Comment.

PS … I Love You: Our columnist gets so appalled at the armchair liberals that she gets out — literally — and hits the streets to protest the war. Comment.

Yellow Hooker: Our columnist tries to solve the mystery of how a home without a driveway can get a ticket from the Sanitation Department for having a dirty driveway. Comment.

Fort Greene: Lightning may not strike twice, but crime can — in the same spot, no less: A gun-toting thief robbed a man on the corner of Schermerhorn and Bond streets on Feb. 26, police said. The 23-year-old victim said it was the second time he was mugged in the same spot. Comment.

Dining: Gourmet pizza, a slice of life in Brooklyn. Comment.

Don’t sound the siren yet — city officials have put a hold on much-reviled plans to auction off vacant firehouses. Comment.

Brooklyn Philharmonic builds a “Bridge”. Comment.

Three strikes and he’s really out. Disgraced former Brooklyn Democratic Party boss Clarence Norman was convicted last week of grand larceny — the third conviction in 18 months for the former Assemblyman, who vowed to appeal, yet admitted that he was finally out of politics. Comment.

Downtown: Keeping DUMBO green is going to be a lot easier, thanks to an innovative program to transform used restaurant cooking oil into bio-diesel fuel. Comment.

Checkin’ in with: He just discovered a link between heart health and coffee consumption. It’s never been a better time to check in with Brooklyn College Professor James Greenberg! Comment.

Music: Composer Nico Muhly brightens the Philharmonic with his rising star. Comment.

Letters: Our weekly letters column gets hotter than ever, with attacks from two John Jay HS principals, an Atlantic Yards supporter and a fan of the Brooklyn Public Library’s supposed “censorship” of an anti–Atlantic Yards exhibition. Comment.

Smartmom: Smartmom wants to know: Does New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks know anything about Park Slope? Comment.

Park Slope: The feuding French bakers of Park Slope entered an uneasy détente this week. Comment.

Dining: Miriam takes over the old Hill Diner space. Comment.

Editorial: Bruce Ratner has barely put a shovel in the ground at his Atlantic Yards mega-development and already the city’s Department of Transportation is putting Band-Aids on the machine gun wound that the project will cause in the heart of Brooklyn. But don’t blame DOT; blame the state planners who ignored traffic in the borough so Atlantic Yards would sail through the approval process. Comment.

Development: Dakota says she’s a sex crazed swinger on her MySpace page — but you can’t meet her until she’s built. Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comment.

Legislators have put their foot in the middle of a messy debate by backing Mayor Bloomberg’s call to increase fines for pooper-scooper violators. Comment.

Dining: Cooking goes down home — but upscale — in Park Slope. Comment.

Downtown: The latest update on the two-week saga of the abandoned car that no one seems to want to pick up. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A U.S. judge says the federal courts should toss out a lawsuit by property owners and tenants facing eviction for Bruce Ratner’s 16-skycraper-and-arena mini-city — a blow to opponents that legal experts said could mark the beginning of the end of the four-year battle against the $4-billion project. Comment.

Dining: A DUMBO bakery has replaced the fine, Jacques Torres hot chocolate with its own brew. Our tasting panel dives right in. Comment.

Dining: Two friends and bona-fide Brooklyn gustatory legends have become rivals in that most bittersweet of winter businesses: hawking hot-chocolate. Comment.

Nightlife: GO’s guide to borough’s jazz hot spots. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The city is considering a “radical” proposal to convert traffic-choked Seventh and Sixth avenues in Park Slope into one-way thoroughfares and removing a lane of traffic from each direction of highway-like Fourth Avenue. Comment.

Nightlife: Bandleader Vince Giorano isn’t just playing jazz, he’s living it. Comment.