Brooklyn: Allowing a Carroll Gardens private school to expand into its courtyard would set a dangerous precedent and should be thwarted, a local lawmaker implored this week. Comments (3).

Brooklyn: A hearing on proposed Metropolitan Transportation Authority service cuts devolved into chaos after a woman — who tried to speak without first being called to the microphone — was arrested. Comment.

Brooklyn: East River State Park has avoided Albany’s budget axe with the agility of the hipsters who play dodgeball during the park’s popular summer concert series. Comment.

Mayor: The Environmental Protection Agency today declared the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, ending nearly a year of often toxic debate and beginning what supporters say will be a new dawn along one of the nation’s most polluted waterways. Comment.

McMahon on Line 1: Bay Ridge’s freshman congressman is named the “most centrist” lawmaker in Washington. But our analysis shows that Mike McMahon is plenty liberal and plenty conservative when he wants to be. Comment.

Brooklyn: Whole Foods remains intent on developing its property along the Gowanus Canal, a toxic site that should be cleaned by April, an environmental consultant for the company said this week. Comment.

Brooklyn: This week we at the Courier wonder why Attorney General and Gubenetorial candidate Andrew Cuomo’s headlining a fundraiser for State Senate Finance Committee Chair Carl Kruger, even when their political ideologies are vastly different. Have they become, to coin a new word, campaignemeys? Read on for more. Comment.