Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

There are not 600,000 people in Kew Gardens Hills.

Rav Moshe did have a problem with the Erev in Kew.

with the Erev in Flatbush, and this is leaving aside the details, meaning right now the Flatbush Erev, I don't know who's checking it or what, I have no idea, but there are two questions of every Erev.

First question is, is it even eligible?

Is this place eligible for an Erev?

Once you've answered that it's not a Rosh Hashanah, it's only a Karmalos, and it's eligible for an Erev, you then can discuss, okay, now what does the Erev look like?

And is the Erev kosher?

And where are the Tzuras HaPesachs?

Where are the Mechitzos?

You know, what's the situation by the overpasses, right?

Then you have to work out all of the details within that Erev.

And there are many, many, many details within those Erevim.

So anyway, I think Rav Henkin, if I'm not mistaken, and Rav Nachman del Kasher,

were in favor of making an area of Manhattan, at least in theory, that it could work in Manhattan.

And at a certain point, the machlokas got heated enough that there was like a kol kore that was signed by the Yagudasar Rabbanim, and it was signed by a number of gedolim, Rav Aaron Kotler, Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky, Rav Bik, Rav Gedal Yashur, and Rav Moshe Feinstein.

And

It was worded much more strongly than his chuvah was, in terms of saying that people who carry in such an eruv are considered mechal alay shabbos, and things like that.

Okay, so it's a long, long, long dispute.

I think someone just publicized recently a letter from Rabbi Lamb's memos about...

about the heir of Manhattan that they had met with Rav Moshe.