Actor Heath Ledger’s former Boerum Hill neighbors streamed to the Hoyt Street home he once shared with actress Michelle Williams in the hours after the star’s sudden death in Manhattan on Tuesday at age 28. Comments (1).

Amorous couples will dine on sauteed chicken liver on Valentine’s Day at the new Amy Ruth’s on Fulton Mall — but if they need booze to get in that romantic mood, they’ll have to go somewhere else because the well-known Harlem soul food restaurant won’t have its liquor license when it opens on Feb. 14. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: A neighborhood group’s macabre tradition of meeting in a local funeral home has passed away. Comment.

Downtown: Cops managed to solve two crimes in one last week, when a man who turned his Brooklyn Heights apartment into a bomb-making factory later confessed to scrawling anti-Semitic graffiti throughout the neighborhood in a crime that had been unsolved since September. Comment.

Williamsburg: Scores of loft dwellers only got an hour to retrieve possessions from their apartments at 475 Kent Ave., the building that was evacuated by the city on Sunday night. Comment.

Politics: A Brooklyn Heights author tells how a kosher butcher in Brooklyn, playing David to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Goliath, faced off against the federal government and won. Comments (1).

Politics: Whoever takes over for Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D–Cobble Hill) will have some big shoes to fill — literally. The NBA-sized DeBlasio is term-limited out of the district, but already five candidates have stepped up to represent the 39th Council district. Comment.

Politics: At the moment, there are only three Democratic candidates vying to replace term-limited Councilman David Yassky and represent a sprawling district that stretches from Greenpoint to Park Slope. Comments (2).

Politics: Councilman Bill DeBlasio is running away with the race to succeed Borough President Markowitz — the money race, that is. Comment.

Editorial: Lawsuits against Atlantic Yards are not a delay tactic, but a legitimate search for the truth about this shady back-room deal. Comment.

Williamsburg: Drug giant Pfizer has slammed a proposal by two state assemblymen to seize the company’s abandoned Williamsburg plant. Comments (4).

Brooklyn Angle: Chapter two in our columnist’s series about his broken ankle. This week: His doctor blows him off! Comments (4).

Perspective: Our artist’s take on the issues of the day! Comments (1).

Perspective: What would Jane Jacobs have thought of Atlantic Yards? Now we know. Comments (1).

PS … I Love You: Our Park Slope columnist explores the soon-to-explode Belgian waffle scene. Comments (1).

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with sympathy for our hobbled editor in chief, plus letters about immigrants, the aborted plan to put a middle school in the House of Detention, and the Navy Yard’s supermarket plan. Comments (2).

Smartmom: Smartmom runs into an old mom friend — and the anxieties come back to her. Comment.

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

Politics: Another big gun — this time Rep. Vito Fossella — has come out against a city plan to build a garbage-transfer station along Gravesend Bay — and says the plan could literally blow up in the city’s face. Comments (1).

Just one month after the shutdown of winter service between north Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York Water Taxi said it will suspend winter service from the 58th Street Pier in Sunset Park’s Brooklyn Army Terminal. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Plans for a bar and grill on Hoyt Street have shattered the calm on the mainly residential street with neighbors saying the would-be bar-owner is trying to create a new Smith Street in the midst of their quiet corner of Carroll Gardens. Comments (13).

Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge businesses better start keeping up appearances if they want to stay competitive, says the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. Comment.

Downtown: The Brooklyn Heights Cinema, which is believed to be the last twin moviehouse in Brooklyn, will soon add two screens. Comment.

Downtown: A new bookstore and café opened last week on the City Tech campus Downtown, but the public is going to have to wait at least a week more before they can partake of the gourmet coffee and organic snacks. Comment.

Fort Greene: 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, the Fulton Street arts “incubator” that will, after nearly two decades, close at the end of the month, has one last gift for the community (and one last marketing opportunity for its resident artist-merchants): a bittersweet blow-out party on Jan. 27. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: The long-dreamed-of direct bus link between Red Hook and Lower Manhattan has been approved, but it won’t be funded until the MTA decides if it has the money. Comment.

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

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