Brooklyn is not only a popular place to live — but it was also the 43rd most-popular name last year. Comments (14).

The clock atop the Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower — visible all over Brooklyn — is finally telling the right time again! Comment.

The city, in an abrupt about-face, is now welcoming storeowners to put A-frame signs on the sidewalk again after cracking down this fall for obstructing the sidewalk. Comment.

The controversial proposal to put a public middle school in the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn House of Detention was killed on Monday amid outrage after the plan was first reported in The Brooklyn Paper. Comment.

DUMBO: State officials have finally taken the blame for allowing a Civil War–era warehouse on the DUMBO waterfront to fall into such disrepair that a state park had to be closed last month to prevent people from getting conked with bricks. Comments (1).

Red Hook: The clock is ticking for Red Hook residents on their head start to get jobs at the long-awaited Ikea — they have three weeks before such positions will be open to the general public. Comment.

Development: A plan to tear down 10 historic houses at the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been put off for months thanks to a decision by federal officials to review the historical integrity of the 150-year-old dilapidated mansions. Comments (3).

Atlantic Yards: Opponents of the Atlantic Yards mega-development suffered a serious setback last Friday when a Manhattan Supreme Court judge dismissed a suit challenging the validity of the project’s environmental review. Comment.

Editorial: Before Bruce Ratner follows up his victory in state Supreme Court by bringing in construction cranes, it’s worth one more attempt to make some sanity of the ongoing misinformation campaign that state officials continue to conduct at Atlantic Yards. Comments (1).

Atlantic Yards: A Brooklyn federal judge recused himself from a panel that will determine the fate of the most significant legal challenge to the Atlantic Yards development, citing his early support for the 16-skyscraper-and-arena project — and now the plaintiffs want to re-argue the case in front of the replacement judge. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: The three-judge federal appeals court overseeing the last remaining legal challenge to Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project will not hear new oral arguments in the wake of the recent recusal by one of the judges. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A state Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an attempt by 13 of Bruce Ratner’s rent-stabilized tenants to bring their lawsuit against the Atlantic Yards developer to the Court of Appeals — but the tenants’ lawyer promised at least another year’s worth of litigation. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Our artist’s take on the issues of the day! Comment.

Politics: The City Council is on the verge of requiring electronics manufacturers to pick up their computers, video games and TV sets when consumers are done with them, but the mayor has signaled his opposition on the grounds that the goal, however laudable, is unattainable. Comment.

Politics: The Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously upheld New York’s “smoke-filled” system of choosing trial judges, setting aside critics’ concerns that political party bosses control the system. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Opponents of a city plan to put a garbage transfer station along Gravesend Bay have new ammunition in their fight — actual ammunition that they say is sitting underwater. Comments (4).

Letters: Letters are pouring in about the city’s middle-school-in-a-jail idea, David Walentas’s Dock Street tower, Flatbush traffic, Old Brooklyn, illegal parking, District Attorney Hynes, and our Editor of the Year, Gersh Kuntzman. Comment.

Brooklyn Angle: Our columnist breaks his ankle — but lives to write about it. Comments (1).

Smartmom: Smartmom’s kid is shopping for a middle school. This ain’t easy, folks. Comments (1).

Parenting: Park Slope kids writers swept — well, almost — the award ceremony at the American Library Association convention on Monday night. Comments (1).

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

Bay Ridge: Twenty-one years after one-way tolling began on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the toll bays on the Brooklyn-bound side of the span will finally be removed. In six more years, that is. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Borough President Markowitz is pushing the state to probe a mismanaged preschool weeks after it seemingly went belly up. Comments (1).

Fort Greene: In a move virtually guaranteed to tarnish town-gown relations, PrattStore — the modernist art supply shop run by the venerable Pratt Institute — has begun offering custom framing, prompting a local merchant to claim that business at her own Myrtle Avenue shop has been devastated. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: The Constitution can make you healthy. That’s the word over at Bay Ridge’s Appletree Natural Foods shop, which, in the spirit of the presidential primary season, has set aside an entire window for a gigantic display of our nation’s founding document. Comments (11).

Downtown: The children of DUMBO will help create a massive mural this week to spruce up the ugly corrugated metal wall on Front Street under the Manhattan Bridge. Comments (1).

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.