Downtown plan: Black Facts — a Downtown Brooklyn mainstay — was the canary in the coalmine. It closed last month and Downtown will never be the same — and that’s by design, unfortunately. Comments (1).

Letters: Our mailbag is again filled with more missives about our “Blood Money” front page. Comment.

Red Hook: In a creative attempt to combat Red Hook's mushrooming traffic problems, a seven-foot-tall, self-proclaimed Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project would cast such long shadows that the architect of a housing complex being built across the street has scraped a plan to heat his building with solar power. Comment.

Coney Island: Borough President Markowitz has a flashy plan for a new “state-of-the-art” performing arts venue in Coney Island — but not everyone in the rundown Riviera is cheering. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: In the end, Bruce Ratner wasn’t that funny. A handful of comedians performing stayed away from jokes at the expense the Atlantic Yards developer at Tuesday night’s anti–Atlantic Yards fundraiser, “Laugh Don’t Destroy,” at Union Hall in Park Slope. Instead, the overflow crowd was treated to the usual array of jokes about urinating, flatulating, defecating, masturbating, douching, drinking one’s own urine, and, of course, “Star Trek.” It was crude, rude and hilarious. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A familiar cast of characters clashed in the first courtroom battle over the fate of Atlantic Yards — with opponents saying the project abuses state condemnation powers and a state lawyer retorting that plaintiffs are “naive” to the ways of the world. Comment.

Editorial: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. We stand our ground. Comment.

Letters: Barclays has requested a retraction from this newspaper (and others) for stories about the bank’s link to slavery and other dark moments in human history. We stand our ground. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: A British bank that is under fire from black leaders for profiting from the slave trade centuries ago fought back last week, claiming the allegation “is simply not true” — but a prominent historian, and yet another high-powered elected official, came forward this week to dispute the bank’s rosy view of its own history. Comment.

Atlantic Yards: Rep. Yvette Clarke, a powerful supporter of the Atlantic Yards project, denounced developer Bruce Ratner’s $400-million deal with Barclays that would brand the Nets arena — the centerpiece of Ratner’s 16-skyscraper project — with the name of an institution that profited from the slavery and other horrors of human history during its “troubling past.” Comments (1).

Downtown plan: A Downtown Brooklyn mall once eyed by Wal-Mart was sold this week — and the new owner says that behemoth of Bentonville is not moving in. Comment.