Author: Emily Judem (Emily Judem)

New York city workers recently removed signs that were illegally posted in South Williamsburg, a Hasidic neighborhood. The 16 signs were posted just before the High Holy Days, and they advised women in Yiddish to step aside for men. Read the full story in the New York Daily News.

The Ink’s own Omar Akhtar visits a Mormon church that uses English to reach out to Chinese immigrants. Read his story.

Police are searching for the perpetrators of a series of burglaries of ATMs in Brooklyn. The suspects are hard to find, however, because they have been splashing bleach on ATMs to remove evidence of their crimes. CBS New York points out that this could be straight out of the Ben Affleck movie, The Town.

Due to a recent series of sexual assaults on women in Sunset Park, Park Slope, and Greenwood Heights, some Brooklyn neighborhoods are stepping up their police presence. The latest attack happened in Sunset Park on Monday, although according to police, this recent incident is not part of the pattern of attacks that have been occurring...

Brooklyn Ink’s Omar Akhtar (@obakhtar) and Gloria Dawson (@gloriadawson) are heading to Brooklyn College to get students’ reactions to the NYPD infiltration. Let us know if you’re near Brooklyn College today or have any thoughts!

Investigators have been infiltrating Muslim student groups at Brooklyn College and other schools in New York after suspecting the groups of encouraging terrorism, according to police documents obtained by The Associated Press. The undercover infiltration was part of a larger NYPD intelligence-gathering effort that the AP has been reporting on since August. The NYPD’s Cyber...

As part of a piece examining childbirth, a Brooklyn performance artist will be giving birth in Bushwick’s Microscope Gallery. Marni Kotak’s performance will be called “The Birth of Baby X.” Kotak is due in the next five weeks. Read more at The New York Post

Brooklyn Ink reporters have headed down to Zuccotti Park to bring you more coverage of Occupy Wall Street. Stay tuned for a gallery of photos of protesters’ signs and more. If you’re in Zuccotti Park, look for our reporters — they’ll be there with a white board and markers.