Eruvs in NYC.How Many and Where ?

[NY Jew]

Originally Posted by BinxBolling

NY Jew, do you know where the eruv in Sunnyside is? Is there a significant Jewish community there?

no as far as I know there is only 1 synagogue.
http://web.archive.org/web/200811202...v-largemap.pdf

[brooklynborndad]

Originally Posted by NY Jew

Midwood to Gravesend is called Flatbush by the Jewish community.

there are major halachich (Jewish Legal) question whether or not you can make an Eruv in Brooklyn or Manhattan.
Crown Heights and the Lower East Side will not make one because no one there wants to go against those rabbis who forbid a eruv in Manhattan and Brooklyn. the eruvs in Brooklyn (except Sea Gate) carry much controversy

As far as I know its only extremist haredim who wont use the boro park Eruv (and even some hasidim will use it).

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by palomalou

Um, NYJew, Washington Heights IS in Manhattan. But where is its eruv? I live there and don't know.

I think,as NY Jew indicated,there are 2 Eruvs in Washington Heights. One is maintained by Yeshiva University and the other one is maintained by The Mount Sinai Jewish Center.Here is a link to a map that shows the boundaries of both and where they overlap.One is green,the other is blue.
Mt Sinai Jewish Center of Washington Heights - Eruv Map

[bluedog2]

Originally Posted by NY Jew

Midwood to Gravesend is called Flatbush by the Jewish community.

there are major halachich (Jewish Legal) question whether or not you can make an Eruv in Brooklyn or Manhattan.
Crown Heights and the Lower East Side will not make one because no one there wants to go against those rabbis who forbid a eruv in Manhattan and Brooklyn. the eruvs in Brooklyn (except Sea Gate) carry much controversy

Thanks again !

Why the controversy about Manhattan and Brooklyn Eruvs and not other boroughs ?

[NY Jew]

Originally Posted by bluedog2

Thanks again !

Why the controversy about Manhattan and Brooklyn Eruvs and not other boroughs ?

Manhattan and Brooklyn have to
to big a population (includes people who work), straighter streets, less highways (walls of the Highways in Queens help greatly in fulfilling the halachic conditions for building an eruv according to some of the stricter opinions).

[NY Jew]

Originally Posted by brooklynborndad

As far as I know its only extremist haredim who wont use the boro park Eruv (and even some hasidim will use it).

even?
hasidim mostly use it.
non hasidiem mostly don't use it.

[JewCrew2]

I am in the middle of creating a map of all NY Eruvin. It is still a work in progress.