Mean Streets: Southern Brooklyn civic leaders must advocate for more dedicated bike paths in the area, according to local cyclists, who claimed the leaders of local community boards routinely thwart their efforts to promote the form of alternative transportation in traditionally car-heavy neighborhoods. Comment

Books: She’s facing history. Comments (1)

Fearless Living: This week, our Fearless columnist tries to break the bubble she sometimes finds herself in by attempting to build new relationships with residents and volunteers at a local homeless shelter. Comment

Windsor Terrace: A residential Windsor Terrace street is ground zero for opponents of the mayor’s controversial scheme to build new homeless shelters throughout the five boroughs, according to block residents, who called the clamor of protests against their neighbor — the city’s homelessness czar — a new normal. Comments (2)

Sunset Park: She’s no runaway bride! Comment

Brooklyn Heights: Now it’s cooking! Comment

Event: Talk about life-changing lessons! Comment

Crime: Find your neighborhood below or click the link above to get a full list. Read more…

Music: This festival will have a new attitude! Comment

Mean Streets: As many as 750 speed cameras will soon monitor drivers in city school zones, according to Gov. Cuomo, who on Tuesday said he will sign a bill authorizing a massive expansion of the cameras, and the hours they operate, after the state Senate and Assembly each passed versions of the legislation. Comments (31)

Shopping: The bullseye is centering on Gravesend! Comments (9)

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. Comments (1)

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. Comments (1)

Bedford-Stuyvesant: They didn’t stop the Carnival! Comments (1)

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. Comments (1)

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! Comments (1)