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

All the tidbits from your neighborhood. Comment.

Bay Ridge: The Brooklyn Public Library has turned a page for Bay Ridge readers last week, doubling temporary service at a library branch undergoing two years of renovations. Comment.

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

Prospect Heights: The city says it will pull off a rare win-win-win for all the various users of Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. Comment.

Podcast: There’s a disaster in The Brooklyn Paper newsroom: The coffee maker is broken. With video … Comments (1).

Parenting: The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is still in the midst of its $46-million Rafael Vinoly–designed expansion — but the Crown Heights exploratorium is about to take the wraps off of an exhibit that will make grown-ups wish they were kids again. Comments (1).

Podcast: Vice president Dick Cheney will be in the city today, April 21, 2008, to endorse Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay Ridge) for a sixth term. Will it help? Ben Muessig has the answer. With video … Comments (1).

Podcast: His broken ankle finally healed, Editor Gersh Kuntzman is back on his bike, riding into work for the first time on Tuesday, April 22, 2008. How’s the ankle? Watch the podcast. With video … Comment.

Fort Greene: The city will turn a stretch of DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene into a safe haven for cyclists, sacrificing parking in an effort to calm the hectic throughway. Comments (2).

Williamsburg Waterfront: A weed-strewn parking lot on the border of Greenpoint and Williamsburg will bloom with a lush waterfront area, a cutting-edge building topped with a slanted lawn and a playing field under the latest city plan to create a world-class waterfront park. Comments (1).

Cobble Hill: To be or not to be? Shakespeare’s Sister, a Cobble Hill gift shop, has gone with the latter and will close this month after a 15-year run. Comments (1).

Williamsburg: Plenty of people recycle, but how many recycle their clothing? Today at the Green Arts on Grand Street Community Awareness Project’s Earth Day celebration, everything from hats and shoes to dresses and bedding — not to mention household electronics — can be dropped off and recycled. Comment.

Breaking Chews: We’re dishing up Brooklyn’s latest food news! Comment.

Bay Ridge: Two men cornered and robbed a teenager at gunpoint on 83rd Street on April 3. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge’s 68th Precinct. Comments (1).

Bensonhurst: A man had his West 11th Street home robbed of cash, jewelry and clothing while he was at work on April 10. Plus all the other crime news from Bensonhurst’s 62nd Precinct. Comment.

Quakers will rise from the dead this summer in the center of Prospect Park — and you’re invited to watch. Comment.

Books: In the decade that she lived in Red Hook, Maureen McNeil collected plenty of stories about the neighborhood — it was the mid 1980s, after all — and on Saturday, April 12, she celebrated the release of “Red Hook Stories,” a book comprised of them. Comment.

Williamsburg: An extreme crook jacked the skateboard from a 13-year-old on April 9, but cops ended the four-wheeled joyride the next day. Plus all the crime news from Williamsburg and Bushwick’s 90th Precinct. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: A boy was robbed of his cellphone by four punks in some after-school misbehavior on West Ninth Street on April 11. Plus all the crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct. Comment.

Williamsburg: Knives are still in style among Williamsburg muggers, as at least three crooks used blades to intimidate and slash their victims. Comment.

Downtown: A burglar sneaked into a Willow Street apartment and stole a cornucopia of jewelry and electronics from the four female inhabitants on April 7. Plus all the crime news from Brooklyn Heights, Downtown, DUMBO and Boerum Hill’s 84th Precinct. Comment.

Greenpoint: A would-be car thief turned violent when police arrived on April 8 at the corner of Morgan Avenue and Beadel Street. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg and Greenpoint’s 94th Precinct. Comments (1).

Fort Greene: A man beat up an employee of a Carlton Avenue bodega who had tried to stop a 10-year old shoplifter on April 10. Plus all the crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (1).

Dining: As kosher kitchens busy themselves in preparation for Passover, the Center for Kosher Culinary Arts in Midwood is on hiatus for a few weeks — so they were able to kibbitz with GO Brooklyn about Passover food trends. Comment.

Park Slope: A brazen thief pulled a gun on a woman on Degraw Street in the middle of the day on April 11 and mugged her for her iPhone and $5,000, cops said. Plus all the other crime news from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights: Is the end near for state Sen. Marty Connor? The Brooklyn Heights Democrat’s hopes for a 16th term are looking shakier than ever, thanks to a few good weeks for challenger Daniel Squadron. On Sunday, Sen. Charles Schumer came to Brooklyn Heights to endorse Squadron, calling his former staffer “one of the smartest, most able people I know.” Comment.

Brooklyn South: Local bar-restaurant pioneer Jim Mamary wins his battle with his Hoyt Street neighbors. Our columnist has one word: Good! Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take on the issues of the day. Comment.

Park Slope: Café Eleven, the Seventh Avenue coffee bar that closed barely three weeks ago after barely a year in existence, will reopen as a wine bar run by the owner of Big Nose Full Body, The Stoop has learned. Comment.

Fashion: At the bi-level Urban Outfitters, which opened on Atlantic Avenue last month, summer is already in full swing. Comments (1).

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, Khalil Gibran International Academy, congestion pricing, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and Frank Gehry’s supposedly naughty design for “Miss Brooklyn.” Comment.

Gowanus: Here’s yet another park that’s being proposed for the banks of the Gowanus Canal. Yes, parks along the Gowanus. Comments (1).

Gowanus: The city has chosen a developer to turn a contaminated Gowanus property into hundreds of apartments and a waterfront esplanade — and the winning bidder is already looking to expand the scope of the project. Comment.

Fashion: Fifth Avenue, Bedford Avenue and...Kings Highway? When Steev Eitelberg opened Steev’s West Fourth, a 10,000-square-foot designer clothing emporium, in September, he was the first to bring haute couture to Gravesend, and so far, the gamble is paying off. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: David Walentas has won permission to finish his hotly contested Atlantic Avenue apartments with possible rooftop cabanas, despite concerns of local preservationists that it skirts height limits in the Cobble Hill historic district. Comments (2).

Checkin’ in with: She was hired to get “shovels in the ground” at Brooklyn Bridge Park — and now, Regina Myer, the new president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, speaks exclusively to The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (6).

Red Hook: To some, Red Hook is best known as a hard-to-get-to neighborhood that prosperity forgot. But it is also the birthplace of America. Comment.

Bridge ‘Park’: One of the main design elements of the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park is in jeopardy because it could harm underwater life. Comments (3).

Boerum Hill: Vandalized parking signs near a Boerum Hill school touched off a brouhaha last week over one of the city’s scarcest and most vital resources — parking spots. Comments (4).

Fashion: The borough’s boutiques are now fully stocked with all you need to maximize your enjoyment of spring and summer. Whether you want to fake a tan or sling some cherry blossoms around your neck, GO Brooklyn has searched the borough for your necessary accessories. Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights: The city has wheeled out a solution to make space at Brooklyn Heights’ overcrowded PS 8 — trailers. Comments (1).

Rezoning: The city will tweak an arcane zoning rule to restrict the scale of new construction on several blocks of Carroll Gardens. Comment.

Fashion: The area down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass is known for expensive furniture, coffee table books and a few destination eateries, but as the weather warms, DUMBO is revealing a new side of itself: fashion Mecca. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: The construction of Atlantic Yards project must be halted immediately until developer Bruce Ratner commits — in writing — to building the full state-approved project, three councilmembers demanded this week. Comment.

Smartmom: With some parents letting their 9-year-olds on the subway — the subway?! — Smartmom considers getting the Oh So Feisty One a cellphone. Comment.

Vox Pop: Former Communist and Black Panther Angela Davis says that racism is “no less overt” than it was in the 1950s, when it was very overt. We hit the streets to find out if anyone agrees with Davis. Comment.

Red Hook: Ikea will open its Red Hook store on June 18, the home-furnishing powerhouse announced on Wednesday, giving eager shoppers a date to circle on their calendars, but starting a doomsday countdown for foes who say the store will ruin the neighborhood. Comments (5).

Editorial: The future of Coney Island looks brighter than ever, thanks to a deal between the city and Joe Sitt — an agreement that The Paper long advocated. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist is appalled — and excited — by news that Brooklyn is the “naughtiest place” in America. This column is definitely PG-13. Comments (6).

Politics: The death of the mayor’s congestion pricing plan has also lead to the killing of the city’s residential parking permit proposal. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights: Now this is a house tour with class: This year’s Brooklyn Heights Association’s journey through some of the neighborhood’s poshest digs includes, for the first time, an inside look at the Hotel Bossert. Comment.

Gowanus: The Gowanus Canal doesn’t kill microscopic life forms, it makes them stronger — and that could lead to medical benefits for humans. Comment.

Politics: Former fugitive, Communist Party presidential candidate and Black Panther Angela Davis is coming to Pratt with a message that racism is “no less overt” than it was 50 years ago. But is it? Comment.

Williamsburg: There’s a new Gold Rush going on in Brooklyn — but the precious metal isn’t the same one that drove the ’49ers crazy. It’s copper. Comment.