5 Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

BROOKLYN, NY — Happy Sunday! Here are five Brooklyn stories that made headlines last week:

1) New Gowanus Canal Health Report: The 10 Scariest Excerpts — Pulled from 86 pages of insights into "one of the nation's most extensively contaminated water bodies."

2) Greenpoint Residents: Transmitter Park Development 'Blurs Line Between Public And Private' — The lobby a developer is trying to build that would look out onto the park "promotes nothing except insecurity," said one resident.

3) Is Trump Tower Security Diverting Police Officers In Brownsville And East New York? — Council Member Espinal's office said it is looking into whether Trump Tower's security operation is taking officers from local precincts.

4) Navy Yard Food Scene To Get Very Delicious — The Navy Yard is getting local Korean sliders, a Crown Heights Caribbean food restaurant, a Bed-Stuy Haitian fare outpost and more.

5) Anti-Rikers Activists Crash De Blasio Fundraiser At Park Slope Brownstone — Protesters gathered outside the mayor's fancy re-election fundraiser in Park Slope Monday night to demand he close Rikers Island for good.

Pictured at top: protesters outside a de Blasio fundraiser in Park Slope. Photo: Patch