The Two Washington Heights Eruvin Connect!

This past shabbas was our first shabbas in Washington Heights in a month and was the first time we got to take advantage of the connecting of the two eruvim in Washington Heights. What made this connecting possible was that the Yeshiva University eruv had recently expanded (which I had videod) (its previous expansion had been several years ago) and the Hudson Heights eruv (the opposition to which I had blogged about a few years ago) has now come up to meet it on Wadsworth Avenue and, the Mt. Sinai website even says so "This eruv borders the YU eruv, and thus you can carry between the two eruvin. Please visit www.yueruv.org for the details and status of that eruv."

This is certainly going to be a huge boon to the community and we're certainly glad that we can now go down to Bennett Avenue for shabbas meals and for us to bring our daughter down to Mt. Sinai for shul.

Walking the Newly-Expanded YU Eruv [4 Min. Video]

I posted two weeks ago about the YU eruv's expansion, encompassing my building (yay!) and decided to do a brief video, walking along the edges of it (in case people were interested beyond a 2-D map). I had hoped to put music to it, but that, for some reason, was not working, so feel free to listen to the music of your own choosing while watching it:

YU Eruv Expanded

I found out on Friday that the eruv that encompasses the campus of Yeshiva University has been officially expanded and operational. This is big news for my wife and me since not only do we live in this area as well as some of our friends, which permit us to bring food over on shabbas if need be, but also, since having our baby, allows us to leave the apartment with us and to go over to others' apartments if need be.
Anyways, this is great news for us and we're glad it is operational for our last few months here.
(By the way, this is not the Hudson Heights eruv, which is on the west side of Broadway in Washington Heights, whereas the YU eruv is to the east of Broadway.)