Rhymes with Crazy: This week, Lenore figures most of us aren’t afraid of terrorists — or at least shouldn’t be. Comments (2)

Letters: Catch up on what your neighbors are thinking on the best soapbox in town. Comment

Big Screecher: It happened again! Comment

Books: Brooklyn booksellers give their top picks. Comment

Editor’s Picks: Turn to the Dark Side of the holiday season, with a show about Santa’s diabolical henchman the Krampus, holiday blues, and a festival of pitch-black beers. It all happens here in Brooklyn! Comment

This liturgy is not to be taken literally. Comments (4)

Bay Ridge Nights: We want to say one word to you. Are you listening? “Polyester.” Comment

A Britisher’s View: President Obama’s national speech after the San Bernadino Islamo-terror attacks makes a case for his impeachment, while Americans stand on the brink of an ideological collapse. Comment

Sheepshead Bay: Cops must crack down on illegal street vendors who are trashing a section of Ocean Avenue, frustrated locals say. Comment

Community News Group sits down with New York City Housing Authority head honcho Shola Olatoye. Comments (1)

BoroBeat: Bay Ridge Jewish Center’s Hanukkah celebration was all about the bubelehs. Comment

Music: This party will be hot as burning pitch! Comment

Williamsburg: This comedy show will be haLOL! Comments (7)

Mayor DeBlasio must re-tool his plan to force developers to create affordable housing, because the scheme won’t help low-income residents who need it most, says the city’s top accountant. Comments (5)

Standing O: Brooklyn’s biggest booster is boosting bigger and better than ever. Comment

The Dad: Cherish the past, but don’t live in it, says The Dad. Comment

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Joe Knows: You don’t have to like Grand Street, but that doesn’t change the history it made winning its first city championship. Comment

Bedford-Stuyvesant: It is history in the making! Comments (12)

BoroBeat: These kids will be glowing for days — eight, hopefully. Comment

Dining: Time to get into the kitchen! Comment

Bay Ridge: They’re crammed if they do and crammed if they don’t. Comments (4)

Williamsburg: This bank can’t catch a break. Comment

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

Sunset Park: A gunman killed a guy in a Seventh Avenue restaurant in Sunset Park on Dec. 7. Comment

BoroBeat: It is a leading light! Comment

BoroBeat: These tiny dancers were spinning out! Comment

BoroBeat: Santa Claus is out-sourcing! Comment

Not for Nuthin’: This week, our columnist says she’s trapped off the continent because the cost of getting her car there is too high! Comment

Podcast: You heard it here first — or did you? Comments (19)

Brooklyn Is Angry: They’re not the heroes Greenpoint deserves, nor the ones it needs right now. Comments (15)

BoroBeat: It was tree-mendous! Comment

Event: It’s a special K! Comment

Coney Island: Cops are hunting a gun-wielding sicko who raped and robbed a woman inside her Coney Island apartment building and then robbed another woman in a nearby apartment building less than an hour later on Dec. 6. Comment

BoroBeat: They weren’t horsing around. Comment

Prospect Heights: Park Slope’s scrappy scholar Yuri Foreman beats Lenwood Dozier, Will Rosinsky falls to Joe Smith Jr., and more in our Barclays Center boxing round-up. Comment

High School Sports: There was no dramatic comeback this time. Comment

High School Sports: Taysir Mack rewarded his teammates’ faith in him with Grand Street’s first-ever city championship win. Comment

A mega-star is born. Comment

Gerritsen Beach: This dog had his day — in court! Comment

Cleaning Our Waterways: It is the human-refuse-related offer too good to refuse, say these Gowanus residents. Comments (2)

Bay Ridge: Happy hail-idays! Comment

Podcast: Finally! Your chance to listen to The Brooklyn Paper. Comment

Awesome: Seriously, these kids lost their minds — check out the photos. Comments (2)

It’s Only My Opinion: In which our jolly journalist offers some holiday shopping tips, dispenses some knowledge on how to use the word “ATM,” and wonders just when is the right time for Hanukkah? Comment

Flatlands: A Flatlands man got at least 20 years in the slammer for stabbing an acquaintance to death and hiding the body in the bedroom of his E. 54th Street home last year, officials announced on Dec. 3. Comment

Williamsburg: They’re seeing red sauce! Comments (20)

Bay Ridge: Ho, ho, hoot! Comment

Williamsburg: Folks living near the under-construction Gravesend waste transfer station aren’t the only ones pushing back against the city’s trash plans. Our sister publication, The Brooklyn Paper, dishes the dirt on what Williamsburgers are doing to kick their transfer stations to the curb. Read more…

Bay Ridge: Police released a sketch of a brute they say broke a 65-year-old man’s hip and wrist during a 92nd Street altercation on Nov. 13. Comment

Fort Greene: A stealthy attacker stabbed a famous playwrite in the neck in Fort Greene on Sunday evening and then disappeared into the night, police said. Comments (5)

Marine Park: Sometimes the best seat in the house is on the stoop. Comment

Breaking Chews: These Parisians are heading to the Left Bank — of the Gowanus Canal! Comment

Awesome: She is doing the right thing! Comment

Our pals at BrooklynDaily.com have all the details on this murderer’s punishement. Read more…

Downtown: A woman is fighting for her life after a driver plowed into her on Flatbush Avenue Extension on Wednesday, authorities said. Comments (20)

Brooklyn Is Angry: They’re raising a stink! Comments (5)