Podcast: Brooklyn Paper Radio this week celebrated those native Kings Countians who stuck around as the better borough evolved over the decades, with help from a lifelong local who just released a book about how to survive — and thrive — in the city. Comment

Downtown: Cops cuffed a man who caused an hours-long shutdown of parts of Atlantic Avenue on Tuesday morning, after he barricaded himself inside a nearby Court Street building claiming to have a gun — which police later discovered was an imitation pistol. Comment

Bedford-Stuyvesant: They didn’t stop the Carnival! Comment

Flatlands: A self-proclaimed hoarder took it upon himself to call a tow truck to haul away his two, garbage-filled recreational vehicles that for years hogged street parking near his Flatlands home — despite officers with the local police precinct taking credit for removing the campers. Comment

Park Slope: A Park Slope resident will spend two months behind bars for abusing his city office and stealing thousands from dead Brooklynites, according to the district attorney. Comment

Art: It is more than a panel discussion! Comment

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Brooklynites proudly celebrated their Irish heritage with hundreds of others on Sunday, when they marched through Park Slope during the borough’s eponymous St. Patrick’s Day parade for the first time in the event’s 44-year history. Comment

Coney Island: Police are hunting for the guy who stabbed a teenage bystander in the back inside a Coney Island bodega, after the suspect and three accomplices chased two other men inside the store. Comment

Fixing the BQE: It appears they’ve hit a roadblock. Comments (4)

Sunset Park: Cops are investigating the identities of two victims whose dead bodies they pulled from water near the Brooklyn Army Terminal three days apart. Comments (1)

Crown Heights: She’s worried about history repeating. Comments (14)

Event: Laughter is the best medical billing system! Comment

Speak Out: Our readers shared additional fears about what will happen if pols wait to act on climate change, and more in this week’s Letters to the Editor. Comments (5)