8 Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

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

1) 2 BQX Questions To Ask: Who Will Ride And Who Will Pay? — The city's "rapid assessment" of the BQX is a point of comparison for a larger study coming out this spring.

2) Gowanus Motorcycle Club Building, Site Of NYPD Raid, Is Up For Sale — Twenty-four members of the club were arrested during a raid a week ago.

3) Clinton Hill Leader Rallies Against Privatization Of St. James Place Towers — City council member Laurie Cumbo rallied against the privatization of the St. James Place Towers in Clinton Hill.

4) Cleanup Crew Shows Up At Paul Manafort's Vacant Carroll Gardens Brownstone — Manafort's debris-filled yard outside of his Union Street home was becoming a neighborhood nuisance.

5) Kosciuszko Bridge To Be Blown Up — The 78-year-old bridge will be destroyed in April, once the first phase of new construction is done, the governor said.

6) Errol’s Bakery, Flatbush 'Institution' Fighting Gentrification, Wins New Lease — Errol’s faced eviction but won the lease after the community rallied support.

7) Bushwick Teen Wielding Fake Gun, Killed By Police, Shot 14 Times — 18-year-old Sergio Reyes was shot in his heart, lungs, aorta, spinal cord, liver, stomach and bones, the medical examiner's office said.

8) Brooklyn Inmates Can Sue City For 'Absolutely Atrocious' Jail Conditions, Judge Says — Sardine-packed cells strewn in pee, poop, trash. Painful temps. No sanitary supplies. All this and more alleged at Brooklyn Central Booking.

Pictured at top: Errol's Bakery in Flatbush. Photo by John V. Santore