Downtown plan: It’s official: Trader Joe’s is coming to Atlantic Avenue. Comment

Politics: City Hall has moved to Brooklyn for two weeks — and Mayor Bloomberg’s staffers say they are already thinking better than ever! Comment

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner will reap a whopping 50-percent profit on his Atlantic Yards investment, a prominent Brooklyn lawmaker charged this week as he called for an end to the massive taxpayer subsidy of the mega-development. Comment

Our own irascible shutterbug, Tom Callan, who has been shooting Brooklyn for the better part of three decades, has opened up his files for a retrospective of his work opening next Friday in Red Hook. Comments (5)

Fort Greene: Cops arrested a Brooklyn activist on Saturday morning after he tried to use his cellphone to photograph the allegedly brutal arrest of a Muslim man in Clinton Hill, according to the lawyer representing both men. Comments (2)

Cartoon: Our cartoonist’s take. Comments (1)

The Brooklyn Paper was one of 20 news outlets nationwide that received a letter about an apparent plot against investment giant, Goldman Sachs. “Goldman Sachs. Hundreds will die. We are inside. You can’t stop us,” read the letter, which was signed, “A.Q.U.S.A.” Comment

Bay Ridge: State Sen. Marty Golden hosts a “Harry Potter” party. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Comment

Harold Rogovin, the father of Brooklyn Paper Publisher Celia Weintrob and a metal-working master who participated in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty and the domes of Ellis Island two decades ago, died Saturday, June 30, in Tampa, Fla., after suffering a stroke in December. Comments (1)

Letters: This week’s mailbag is full of letters commenting on other letter writers’ letters — plus missives about Grand Army Plaza, a school that wants to strip the Longfellow name off the front, the Khalil Gibran International Academy, the new floating pool, a group of wacky artists on Eldert Street, the hope for an F express train and, of course, Atlantic Yards. Comment

Books: ‘Local’ comic book writer Brian Wood immortalizes the borough. Comment

Dining: Celebrate French independence with two of the best new spots in town. Comment

Sandlot baseball has finally gone 21st century. The great ball field tradition of pick-up baseball — which school ballplayers from the days of Babe Ruth — has been revived in Park Slope with a little help from the Internet. Comment

Dining: Can Oven withstand the heat on Henry Street? Comment

An unlikely local love nest for your in-town summer vacation. Comments (1)

The borough’s top spots for making sure out-of-towners don’t stay with you. Comment

Dining: What’s the deal with iced coffee? Comment

Fort Greene: The city announced it will squeeze a center for suspended students into one of Fort Greene’s best-performing middle schools, just days after it bowed to community outrage and quashed a plan to house a similar center in another junior high just a few blocks away. Comments (2)

Politics: Press release, press release, in our e-mail, who is the greenest pol of all? Comment

Park Slope: The former Trinidadian Olympian arrested last week and charged with raping two women in Prospect Park in June admitted that he had sex with his victims, but claims the encounters were consensual, prosecutors said this week. Comment

Dining: The best cold coffee in Brooklyn. Comments (1)

Park Slope: The Department of Transportation kept its word and, almost overnight, added bike lanes to Ninth Street in Park Slope last week. Comment

Music: The Brooklyn Philharmonic’s new music therapy programcould be instrumental to good health. Comment

Park Slope: A Yankee-loving bank robber was foiled by a fast-thinking teller who called cops after tricking the villain into believing she had gone into a back room to get some money — plus all the crime from Park Slope’s 78th Precinct. Comment

Fort Greene: A 14-year-old would-be bank robber was foiled by a cop who happened to be in the Atlantic Avenue branch when the pint-sized perp put his failed plan into action on July 5 — plus all the crime from the 88th Precinct. Comment

Downtown: A fashionable DUMBO office building is in the midst of a crime spree featuring a thief who knocks through sheetrock walls to steal goods — plus all the other crime news from Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown. Comment

Carroll Gardens: Construction on the Hamilton Avenue Bridge, a key Gowanus Canal span that carries traffic to and from the Battery Tunnel, has so far caused few traffic problems since beginning on June 30, even though half of the bridge’s eight driving lanes are closed. Comment

Bay Ridge: A 72-year-old woman lost a lot of time last week — $7,500 in valuable watches was stolen from her apartment. Plus all the other crime news from Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. Comment

Carroll Gardens: A valuable stash of copper cable wire was stolen from the Ikea construction site on Beard Street in Red Hook sometime between June 22 and 26, police said — plus all the other crime news from Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook and Boerum Hill. Comment

Art: The Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition takes DUMBO.  Comment

The famed “Ice Cream Man” finally did Brooklyn last week — and everyone from our famously dieting Borough President to steamed kids to coiffed hipsters loved him. Comments (1)

Books: Grown-up Harry Potter party makes kids vanish! Comment

Bay Ridge: It’s getting ugly on 81st Street, where tenants of an apartment building — furious over the installation of cellphone equipment on their roof — confronted workers and nearly came to blows with their landlord’s relative after construction crews began installing more phone machinery. Comments (3)

Music: Are the McCarren Pool hipsters ready for the ‘Ponderosa Stomp’? Comment

Park Slope: Rev. Billy was arrested last month. His crime? Reciting the First Amendment to cops. Comment

Downtown: DUMBO’s quaint cobblestone streets will be taken over next Saturday by thrill-seeking bike messengers in a renegade “alleycat” race across the neighborhood. Comment

Bay Ridge: Residents of Dahlgren Place won a small victory this week when the city agreed to finally install a speed limit sign on the fast-moving street. Comment

Downtown: A Downtown Brooklyn homeless outreach center — which has recently sparked complaints of drug-addicts shooting up on brownstone stoops and homeless people using vestibules as toilets — is moving to a less-populated street. Comment

Fitness: Our Classified Sales Manager Adam El-Sheemy has finally completed the “Boot Camp Challenge,” a grueling, thrice-weekly workout regimen set up by two personal trainers. Each week, he’s given us his scintillating report about the struggle. Now, he revels just how much less of him there is to love. Comment

All the important meetings you should be going to. Comment

Perspective: The poet laureate of Park Slope weighs in on the recent glut of articles about the neighborhood. Comment