Editorial: Our editorial board is horrified by the city plan to spend hundreds of millions in taxpayer money — and subvert the very notion of a free market — on Mayor Bloomberg’s Coney Island folly. Comments (26).

Dining: It is the best of times, it is the most exhausting of times. Comments (2).

Cartoon: Our cartoonist Cristian Fleming clearly thinks a fare hike is a joke. Comments (1).

Dining: The age-old assumption about restaurants is that there’s fast food, and there’s fancy food, and nothing in between. But denizens of Bay Ridge are the latest to discover how incorrect that old maxim can be. Comments (4).

Brooklyn Heights: The owner of a historic Brooklyn Heights apartment complex buried his own plan to put a garage in the courtyard — and the city approved it! Comments (1).

Nightlife: Park Slopers have long regarded Third Avenue as depressing — but now there’s finally a place to drink away those blues. Comment.

Letters: The mailbag is filled as usual, this time with letters on the Council’s term-limit vote, Bruce Ratner, the victory of Barack Obama and, perhaps most important, Peruvian pipe players in Borough Hall park. Comment.

Fort Greene: The long-awaited construction of the Long Island Rail Road’s Flatbush Avenue terminal at the chaotic intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place will be done by next spring, agency spokeswoman Susan McGowan said on Wednesday. Comment.

Williamsburg Waterfront: A 40-story tower will rise on the horizon for the Greenpoint waterfront — if the city allows the developers to build 10 stories higher than the current zoning permits. Comments (6).

Park Slope: Two long-empty storefronts on Seventh Avenue won’t be fixed up until the right tenant comes along, the owner says. Comment.

Dining: Drinks at the Cabana, then seafood on la Playa. Comment.

Park Slope: Barack Obama won the election — whew! Now it’s time to do some serious yoga! Comment.

Check out the wheels on the new … German Shepherd?! Comment.

Kensington: The city moved forward with rezoning an eight-square-block area near the Kensington Stables — a move that concerned locals hope will protect the area from large-scale development encroaching on their turf. Comment.

Parenting: This week’s fun things to do with your kids. Comment.

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

Dining: Morton’s the Steakhouse — a national chain that will open on Nov. 21 in hopes of taking the legendary Peter Luger by the horns — offered The Brooklyn Paper a sneak preview of its Adams Street dining room and menu this week. Our full-team coverage — including Gersh Kuntzman, Ben Muessig, Sarah Portlock, Mike McLaughlin and Vince DiMiceli — bring you inside for a mouth-watering exclusive look at their lunch that you’ll only see on BrooklynPaper.com. With video … Comments (3).

Boerum Hill: One day after the city confined inmates overnight in the Brooklyn House of Detention for the first time in five years, a coalition of jail opponents sued to block the city’s plan to reopen and expand the 11-story prison. Comments (2).

Bay Ridge: Heather Hamilton has hardly changed a thing in Long’s Wines & Liquors since she purchased the Bay Ridge booze shop from state Conservative Party Chair Mike Long in March — but there’s one big difference: and it ain’t the wine selection. Comment.

Fort Greene: Two horrifying incidents mar the holiday shopping season at Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Terminal Mall. Comment.

Cobble Hill: Reversing an earlier reversal, the Bloomberg administration has ruled that rooftop structures on a surprisingly controversial apartment building on Atlantic Avenue exceed the height restrictions of the Cobble Hill Historic District. Comments (3).

Downtown plan: The city will close the western end of DeKalb Avenue in order to nearly triple the Albee Square pedestrian plaza on Fulton Mall in Downtown, officials announced on Tuesday. Comment.

Williamsburg Waterfront: If one North Brooklyn lawmaker has his way, the boys in blue will keep one of the neighborhood’s few open spaces green this winter. Comment.

Park Slope: The oft-delayed renovations of J.J. Byrne Park’s handball courts are finally done — and just in time for winter! Comments (3).

Mean Streets: A controversial pair of newly painted bike lanes are great for Williamsburg and Greenpoint bike riders, but they’re hurting Kent Avenue business owners. Comments (5).

Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it must be Smartmom day at BrooklynPaper.com. This week, the tear-filled final chapter in the saga of the Oh So Feisty One’s turquoise hair. Comments (2).

Awesome: The eternal flame is living up to its name again. Comment.

Dining: Just in time for that other bird holiday, Atomic Wings opened its first outlet in Park Slope on Nov. 4, giving Brooklynites a taste of what many believe has been the most-elusive snack in the borough — the perfect Buffalo chicken wing. Comments (2).

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

Williamsburg: A Union Avenue gas station might become the coolest place to spend a night in Williamsburg. Comment.

Boerum Hill: Federal prosecutors charged a man on Wednesday with stealing more than $500,000 in government aid meant for school meals for poor children in the Boerum Hill day care center he ran. Comment.