Life and Death on Amsterdam Avenue

Following this week's installment in the litany of serious accidents at the corner of 185^th and Amsterdam, we must demand action in unequivocal terms. The most effective way to ensure student safety from vehicular aggression on campus is to close the stretch of Amsterdam Avenue that bisects Yeshiva College's quasi-campus. In the interest of student safety, reroute the damn city buses and keep the intoxicated demolition derby drivers off the street!!

As has become conspicuously evident of late, the original intent for this extremely well-planned campus was to have the relevant block of Amsterdam closed not only to through traffic, but fully integrated as a vibrant campus center for student use. Will the people who vetoed the suburban campus locations on Long Island and in New Jersey please come forward and attempt to ameliorate the consequences of choosing this blighted neighborhood as the eternal venue of Torah U'Maddah?

Why does the University insist on waiting patiently for tragedy, G-d forbid, before making any effort to protect its charges?