Source: Maariv
http://www.indypressny.org/article.php3?ArticleID=1075
On October 3, 2003 Maariv described an ongoing dispute in the Williamsburg Hasidic Community over an eruv—the area in which observant Jews are allowed to carry possessions during the Sabbath, when no work is allowed. According to the article, the eruv is a particular problem in New York City , as "the Halacha forbids any eruv in a public place where over 600,000 people pass by over the course of a day. " Disagreements over the nature of an eruv reached their peak in September, when an observant woman carrying a baby-stroller was attacked and stripped in public by young Hasidics, in an incident that shocked the community... According to Prof. Samuel Heilman, “The women suffer the most in the absence of an eruv. They’re stuck all day at home with the kids during the Sabbath.” The last anti-eruv bastion was Williamsburg.