Page 1: This week’s print edition of The Brooklyn Paper is so good that we don’t want you to wait to pick it up at one of our several hundred locations. Click the link above and start browsing the entire Paper, and enjoy our coverage of the messy Gowanus Canal, the messy campaign for city council, and a messy fight over Jed Walentas’s Dock Street plan. If news ain’t your bag, head straight for GO Brooklyn’s tribute to all the things you can do along our beloved G train — the “Brooklyn Local”! And as we say in the newsroom, “Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn!” Comment

Mean Streets: The city unveiled its latest Kent Avenue bike lane plan — this time seeking to bring peace to warring bicyclists, motorists and business owners — but Williamsburg’s inland residents claim the new proposal only makes matters worse. Comments (29)

A precipitous drop in births at cash-strapped Long Island College Hospital is causing a ripple effect through other obstetrics wards in the area. Comments (3)

Shopping: Forget everything you ever heard about the G train, because it is about to become the best subway line in the MTA system. Comments (7)

Event: Brooklynites will get a chance to play mini-golf for free on an artist-created course — but only for one day on Saturday. Comment

Election: Hear it all for yourself in this exclusive podcast with the controversial candidate. With video … Comments (1)

Cartoon: Cartoonist Cristian Fleming thinks the mess in the Gowanus Canal has two new sources. Comments (1)

Mean Streets: Vanderbilt Avenue will become the latest stretch of mean street to become a pedestrian plaza this June, closing to automotive traffic every Sunday. Comment

Letters: Two more letters complaining about rogue bikers. Comments (1)

Nightlife: Bay Ridge’s most famous hardcore band has grown up — but it hasn’t gone soft. Comment

Theater: A festival of Islamic art at the Brooklyn Academy of Music includes an Arabic take on “Richard III” and a concert by Youssou N’Dour. Comment

Editorial: Our editorial board urges riders to make sure the MTA knows how important the newly expanded G-train service is to Brooklynites. Comments (3)

Dining: For father and son restaurateurs Joseph and Marco Chirico, the apple — or in this case, the olive — doesn’t fall from the tree. Comment

Downtown plan: There could be lots of lonely partridges on the first day of Christmas this year, because the city chopped down nine pears trees on DeKalb avenue last week. Comment

Event: A three-day Middle Eastern food fair is coming to Brooklyn Heights this weekend. Comments (1)

Election: Residential parking permits are a big topic right now. Here’s where your would-be councilman or woman stands on the pay-to-park plan.

Fort Greene: The city and National Guard reached an agreement to save two decrepit, yet historic, buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and destroy eight others, ending an impasse and allowing the Navy Yard to proceed with its controversial plan to build a supermarket. Comments (8)

Smash or Trash: Our contest to win two free tickets to Wilco’s July 13 show at Coney Island ends on May 31. Enter today! With video … Comments (5)

Cleaning Our Waterways: NEWS ANALYSIS: Both proposals for cleaning the Gowanus Canal are flawed. Comments (6)

Election: Clubhouse politics were thrown into turmoil on Tuesday when the president of one of the borough’s best-known liberal groups took a leave of absence rather than work to elect the right-of-center candidate who won the club’s endorsement for a council seat last week. Comments (4)

Dining: Spencer Rothschild has brought his Latin beach cuisine to the Brooklyn Public Library. Comments (1)

Park Slope: This week, the blotter in Park Slope’s 78th Precinct was filled with burglaries. Comment

Dining: He conquered the world of high-end truffles and bon-bons. Then he made us look forward to winter with his hot chocolate. When he started baking, his kitchen quickly created the best chocolate chip cookies and brownies in the city. With video … Comment

Smartmom: If it’s Tuesday, it’s Smartmom day on BrooklynPaper.com. This week, Smartmom deals wit memory and loss a year after the death of her dad. Comments (2)

No news update today because our office is officially closed to honor America’s fallen. Click the link above to find out Memorial Day parade information or check back tomorrow for a full list of news and feature stories. Comment

DUMBO: Widely hyped concerns that a controversial residential tower and middle school on Dock Street in DUMBO would block views of the Brooklyn Bridge took a back seat at a City Council hearing last Thursday, where politicians focused on charges that the School Construction Authority improperly colluded with the project’s developer. Comments (13)

Coney Island: A hot day. Coney Island. The beach. Need we say more? Comment

Fort Greene: MS 113 reopened on Wednesday, six days after the Department of Health shut the Adelphi Street junior high school after 18 students exhibited flu-like symptoms. Comments (2)

Rhythm & News: In his latest “Rhythm and News” feature, the Bard of Bushwick, Frank Hoier, sings about an art project in DUMBO that got destroyed by state officials. With video … Comment

Election: One of Brooklyn’s oldest and most-progressive political clubhouses was riven last night after a closed-door meeting led to the “insulting” endorsement of the most-conservative of five Democratic candidates seeking to succeed Councilman Bill DeBlasio. Comments (8)

Fort Greene: The controversial principal of Fort Greene’s PS 20 was arrested last Thursday morning for allegedly assaulting a teacher during a disciplinary hearing. Comments (1)

Nightlife: The influential Williamsburg music venue Black Betty is closing on a blue note. Comments (9)

Editor’s Picks: Once again, the invaluable Brooklyn Paper is back with some tips for a great weekend. Keep hustlin’, Brooklyn! Comment