Airmont, NY – Yeshiva Project Delayed

Airmont, NY – The development of a yeshiva with student and faculty housing remains in limbo pending a court decision on the legality of the village’s agreement to permit the construction.

Attorneys for the village and Congregation Mischknois Lavier Yakov said that they didn’t know when a decision would be made.
The congregation proposes a yeshiva on 19 acres off Hillside Avenue, a narrow, twisting road that runs westward from Saddle River Road along the New Jersey border. But residents of the neighborhood, as well as those in the borough of Upper Saddle River, N.J., have opposed the project and are seeking the court to stop it.
Their concern is that building a 170-student dormitory and 30 apartments for faculty and married students would increase traffic on inadequate roads. Also residents have cited numerous overflows of sewage when storm water overburdens the system. That has been particularly alarming to those New Jersey residents who have watched sewage flow into the Saddle River.
While the judge said the planning process could continue pending his decision, the congregation has not reappeared before the board or presented its review of the environmental matters.