Once a week, we highlight a few of the comments that readers have left on GL items. Here’s a small sample from the last seven days:

Carroll Gardeners React to Smith Street Permits. “I think lack of action was by neighborhood. The building has been in works for years and on Scarano’s website. So why all this b.s. at last minute? Why don’t all you complainers work on making rest of Smith St. south of here more attractive instead?” [Anonymous]

Real Estate Firm Already Improving Park Slope. “We are losing yet another Premiere Corner location to …no not a cool boutique or restaurant but to a REAL ESTATE OFFICE!!! Why Park Slope needs another real estate office is beyond me. There must be 15 firms with offices in the neighborhood. People cried when the first Starbucks opened, yet there seems to be so end to RE BROKERS. Bank, Duane Reade, Starbucks, Real Estate office, rinse repeat.” [Da Chef]

Dead Rats and Dog Crap in Boerum Hill. “People seem to think all trash cans are public property in Brooklyn. Frequently people dump loose trash, half eaten foodstuffs and the like into my trash cans – which are always behind a fence and away from the sidewalk. This is in Clinton Hill.” [Anonymous]