Link: Yeah, sure people were lining up for copies of the New York Times’s “Obama” front page, but this week’s print edition of The Brooklyn Paper is no less of a collector’s edition. Read it all here — online! — where you’ll get our full election coverage, plus stories on the slumping (and surging) real-estate market, the history of beer (yum, beer) and a dentist who wanted kids to turn in their Halloween candy (fat chance). And as we say in the newsroom, keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!

Bridge ‘Park’: A luxury building that is the cornerstone of the Brooklyn Bridge Park waterfront development is showing signs that the tanking economy is hurting the local real-estate market. Comment.

Editorial: Our editorial board concludes: The election of Barack Obama is a major big deal! Comments (1).

Brooklyn Heights: Wall Street blues be damned! Comment.

Cartoon: Our cartoonist Cristian Fleming looks back at the historic election of Barack Obama. Comment.

Event: Park Slope better be ready to rumble on Nov. 15, when a crew of Spandex-clad wrestlers will take over the Brooklyn Lyceum for a no-holds barred slugfest. Comments (1).

Nightlife: Move over St. Louis and Milwaukee — Brooklyn is back! Comments (2).

Dining: Downtown office workers, starving for a delicious lunchtime sandwich, can now have their day on Court — F. Martinella’s has opened. Comment.

Shopping: An indie artisan movement is burgeoning in Brooklyn, and two entrepreneurs are doing their part with new ways to champion hand-crafted stuff. Comment.

Gowanus: The Bloomberg Administration’s plan to turn the land around the Gowanus Canal into the next residential frontier could be derailed by the local councilman who wants to link the future of that neighborhood with nearby Carroll Gardens, where residents want limits on new development. Comments (3).

Nightlife: The return of large-scale beer bottling in Brooklyn is cause for celebration. Here are some of the best places in the borough to enjoy locally brewed perfection. Comment.

Dining: A DUMBO eatery is reconnecting the nautical neighborhood with its seafaring roots — with oysters! Comment.

Bay Ridge: Crooks broke into the site of Bay Ridge’s recently demolished “Green Church” overnight on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to heist a time capsule from the rubble, Pastor Robert Emerick told The Brooklyn Paper. Comments (4).

Books: This week, author Jonathan Lethem kicked off the “Walt Whitman Writers Series” at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights. That’s a pretty lofty gig — but does today’s literary golden boy hold his own against the father of free verse? Find out in The Brooklyn Paper’s first ever borough literary smackdown! Comment.

Downtown: Downtown planners — led by former Borough President Howard Golden — want to turn the stately, but neglected war memorial in Cadman Plaza Park into a state-of-the-art museum and veterans center as well as a monument to heroes from the Revolutionary War to the current conflicts abroad. Comment.

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

Parenting: All the fun you could be having with your kids. Comment.

Link: If it’s Wednesday, it’s Police Blotter day on BrooklynPaper.com. Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list.

Bay Ridge: A 17-year-old restaurant valet parker was killed on Nov. 1 when he tried to stop a rolling minivan from hitting another parked car on 83rd Street in Bay Ridge. Comments (1).

Politicrasher: On the eve of Election Day, Obama supporters strategize on how to keep voters at the polls. Comment.

Bay Ridge: It’s the ultimate battle of the band-shells: Coney Island may someday have an outdoor summer concert venue to rival the seaside theaters at Jones Beach and the PNC Bank Arts Center in New Jersey. Comments (1).

Bay Ridge: In Bay Ridge, even free parking has a price. Comments (7).

Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Teen Spirit considers taking a year off before college (what? He was planning on GOING to college?). Comment.

Williamsburg: In hopes of curbing sky-scraping development in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, the city has proposed capping the height of buildings in a 175-block downzoning that residents said should have happened years ago. Comment.

Politicrasher: A wife stands by her man — and against Obama — because her husband’s job depends on the war in Iraq. Man, this is one messed-up country sometimes. Comments (4).

Bay Ridge: The family of a man who fatally broke his neck on a birthday ride on the Cyclone last summer is blaming the city for not keeping the Coney Island coaster safe. Comment.

Dining: Finally, Manhattan will get a taste of what Brooklynites have been devouring for years. Comments (6).

Weekender: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some nice tips for this weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment.

Music: Williamsburgers, launder your tuxes and grab your monocles: A long-forgotten 600-seat theater will open for the first time in decades next week — for three nights of opera! Comment.

Checkin’ in with: Our sit down with the new leader of the American Civil Liberties Union. Funny, but she didn’t burn a flag or rip up a Bible for the entirety of the interview! Comments (2).