5 Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

BROOKLYN, NY — Here are five Brooklyn stories that made headlines this week:

1) LIU Brooklyn Students Walk Out In Support of Locked Out Faculty — Hundreds of students left class Thursday, demanding their professors be let back in.

2) Take a Look Inside the new Coffee Laboratory in Bushwick Inspired by "Breaking Bad" — In a subtle nod to 'Breaking Bad,' Walter's Coffee now open in Bushwick; a chemistry lab-style coffee-house.

3) De Blasio Credits NYPD With Saving 29,000 Lives Since 1994 — The NYPD also said Tuesday that this summer was the safest in more than 20 years.

4) (Updated) Tour a Decaying Brooklyn Playground With Insurgent Senate Candidate Michael Cox — Video: "This isn't how it is for children in Park Slope," the State Senate hopeful said, surveying the hazardous playground equipment.

5) In Sunset Park, Protesters Call for "Prisoner Liberation" — "Poverty is a form of violence," a protester said, explaining how those arrested were victims themselves.

Pictured at top: Students protest at LIU Brooklyn. Photo by Aaron Simon