Brooklyn Yeshiva leaders demand school zone speed cameras
Simcha Felder has become primary obstacle to camera program expansion
Rabbi Berel Hecht can barely bring himself to watch the students at his yeshiva, Bnos Yerushalayim D’Chasidei Belz, cross the street to get to school. Drivers whipping around the corner of 15th Avenue and Dahill Road consistently endanger kids in the crosswalk.
“It’s dangerous,” he said. “It’s hard just to look at when they are crossing.”
For that reason, Hecht is one of 23 yeshiva leaders — with 18,000 students among them — who are asking the state legislature to allow the city to install more speed-enforcement cameras.