What's Happening on Hawxhurst Road?

Two, maybe soon to be three alleged yeshivas are operating out of zoned residential homes on this tiny road in the Town of Monroe.

For over thirty years, Monroe-Woodbury School District buses would not go down Hawxhurst Road.

Instead, young children and their families often waited for the school bus at the intersection of Hawxhurst and Orange Turnpike. Something they still do to this day.

Hawxhurst is a narrow road. Like a lot of roads in the neighboring Village of Monroe, it was never intended for traffic from buses or other heavy vehicles.

In the Fall of 2023, multiple residents began to take note of an increase in bus traffic that frequented the road. During the day, the traffic was reported to have come from the Kiryas Joel School District, and at night, from the Emes Transportation Incorporated. And residents had a right to be concerned. An Emes Transportation bus struck and killed a five-year-old boy in Kiryas Joel a year earlier. In 2017, a six-year-old girl in Kiryas Joel was struck and killed by a KJ School District bus. In the words of Town of Monroe Supervisor Tony Cardone at the January 17th, 2024 meeti…