5 Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

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

1) A Million Gallons of Water Per Year, Feeding Plants Instead of the Gowanus— The new sponge park will prevent storm water from flowing into the canal, helping to keep it clean.

2) Hearing on 'Third World' Sunset Park Prison Delayed Until Dec. 15 — 161 female inmates are reportedly being held in two rooms, without adequate access to fresh air and with limited medical treatment.

3) Choppergate Ramps Up: De Blasio Accused of Using Little League Field as Helipad — Two anonymous Harlem dads have gone to the Post with angry claims the mayor halted their sons' baseball game for an NYPD helicopter landing.

4) EXCLUSIVE: Planned Brooklyn Co-Working Space 'The Vault' Is 'Long Dead' — The 20,000-square-foot space on Dean Street, behind the Berg'n beer hall, will instead be filled by 5 smaller tenants, says a leasing agent.

5) Cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Begins After Years of Planning — "Brooklyn would not be Brooklyn" without the famous, and notorious, stretch of water, said community activist Marlene Donnelly.

Pictured at top: debris removal gets underway. Photo by John V. Santore