5 Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

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

1) Fort Greene's Brooklyn Technical High School Wins State Award In App Contest — The school's team won the prestigious award for creating an app that makes it fun for high schoolers to apply for college scholarships.

2) Brownsville's Senator Determined To #RaiseTheAge For Offenders To Be Tried As Adults — New York prosecutes young people as adults when they turn 16. Sen. Hamilton is fighting to raise that age to 18.

3) El Chapo Takes New York: Everything You Need To Know — A primer on where the planet's No. 1 drug lord will be living in New York City, what he'll be doing and how you can follow along.

4) Audio: Crown Heights Congresswoman Says She'll 'Act Up' Against Trump — Rep. Yvette Clarke skipped Friday's inauguration and had harsh words for the new president.

5) Brooklyn Anti-Trump Organizing Effort Drawing Hundreds of Participants— Monday's meeting saw a packed house and more than a dozen sub-groups at Congregation Beth Elohim.

Pictured at top: Attendees at Monday's #GetOrganizedBK meeting. Photo by John V. Santore