Dining: Greenpoint’s best-kept hole-in-the-wall Polish joint is about to become the Next Big Thing. Comment.

Coney Island: An iconic former Coney Island restaurant that’s now home to the freaks of the Coney Island Sideshow was designated a city landmark on Tuesday, a move to save a key site from ongoing redevelopment that is paving over the area’s glory days. Comments (2).

Bar Scrawl: The latest installment of our new feature, Bar Scrawl, offers our cartoonists’-eye view of a Bushwick joint. Comments (2).

Event: Sure, we all take the time to remember Martin Luther King, Jr. this time this year on the anniversary of his birthday. Though few of us have as vivid a memory of the man as Jimmy Hayes does. Comment.

DUMBO: DUMBO developer Jed Walentas admitted that it was good that his supporters from “the projects” — and their political backers — didn’t show up and make a “total racial mess” at a 2009 hearing on his controversial Dock Street project. Comments (13).

Checkin’ in with: Pablo Airaldi sits down with Aaron Short. This is going to get interesting. Comment.

Cleaning Our Waterways: Greenpoint has spoken — and it wants new wetlands, more trees and a new boathouse along the Newtown Creek. Comments (1).

Park Slope: More than 100 teachers, students and parents of John Jay HS in Park Slope — which comprises mostly minority students from outside the neighborhood — rallied on Tuesday against a city plan to site an “elite” public high school in the building. Comments (1).

Carroll Gardens: A carpenter renovating a new age art gallery on Summit Street was murdered on Monday. Comments (4).

Gowanus: Mount Rushmore. The Grand Canyon. The Gateway Arch. Yosemite. The Gowanus Canal? Comments (4).

Brooklyn’s on its way back from the dead. Comment.

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: There is something incongruous about seeing a production of “Women Behind Bars,” a 1975 Tom Eyen play that was a smash hit when it starred Divine and opened Off-Off-Broadway, in the former church on quaint (and historic) Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights that the Heights Players have called home since 1962. Comments (1).

Fort Greene: Yes, more crime at Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center. Plus all the other crime news from Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s 88th Precinct. Comments (4).

The Butcher of Flatbush Ave. Extension: Ignore the title; “The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church” is a thirill ride. Comment.

Development: A new center at the southern tip of Flatbush Avenue is the latest Brooklyn location that could house a Walmart. Comments (31).

Santa may have given you lots of new electronic toys this holiday season — but if you want to avoid his “Naughty” list next year, you’d better not let the old crap turn into new garbage. Comments (1).

Downtown: A man jumped to his death from the Brooklyner — the second suicide from the borough’s tallest building in a year — on Saturday afternoon, police said. Comments (4).

Dining: The so-called “cursed” corner of 60 Henry St. in Brooklyn Heights may finally see its first new restaurant in more than two years — owners just applied for a liquor license under the name Bevacco. Comment.

Event: Urban tour guides David Naczycz and Cindy VandenBosch want to share a beer, and some history, with you. Comment.

Theater: If you always thought Shakespeare could use more ka-pow, this is the play for you. Comment.

Music: It only took 10 years, but Craig Schoenbaum finally has a band. Comment.

Brooklyn Heights: Brooklyn Bridge Park is one step closer to getting a pool. Comments (3).

Nightlife: Three former music executives at the Knitting Factory will open a cavernous indie music venue in a former 19th-century brewery on Meserole Street. Comments (6).

Music: It’ll be two hard days’ nights of Beatles on ukuleles this weekend at Brooklyn Bowl. Comments (2).

Music: If you don’t catch Mavis Staples next Tuesday night, you’re making a big mistake. Comment.

Event: Our inside look at the 10th annual (legal!) pantless commute. With video … Comments (2).

Prime Time: The burger is an American classic — but it’s not always so classic anymore. Comments (2).

The Dad: Our columnist confronts his daughters’ Facebook addictions. Comment.

Shopping: High-end boutique closes, citing lack of business for chic clothes. Comment.

Brooklyn Is Angry: And a new storm is dumping more of the white stuff. How will the city do this time? Comments (2).

Downtown: City planners will reverse the direction of Duffield Street so out-of-towners can better access a group of fancy hotels near Fulton Mall. Comment.

Park Slope: A woman beats up another woman — all because she wouldn’t buy her crap! Plus the other crime from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment.

Carroll Gardens: Not a lot of crime from Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill and Red Hook’s 76th Precinct this week. The best item? A punch on Amity Street. Comment.

Williamsburg: This is one satisfying crime. Plus all the other crime news from Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct. Comments (3).

Brooklyn Heights: A man’s car is cleaned out in DUMBO while he rings in the New Year in Manhattan. Plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights and Downtown’s 84th Precinct blotter. Comment.

Prospect Heights: A cyclist is mugged and fired upon. Plus all the other news from Prospect Heights’ 77th Precinct. Comment.

Greenpoint: A thief mugs a woman on her own front steps. Plus all the other illegal stuff from Greenpoint and Williamsburg’s 94th Precinct. Comment.

Bay Ridge: Two scammers gain entry by saying that the need to check a water leak. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights’s 68th Precinct. Comments (2).