“Rav Moshe continues that counting is a chumrah that there would be a definite reshus harrabim, and a kulah that in a place where there isn’t enough people to have 600,000 on the streets we would be able to build an eruv. But then he goes on to say how none of this applies to Manhattan and Brooklyn. There we would always assume there is enough to get 600,000 on the streets. Then he goes on to be lenient if there is a larger area. But doesn’t mention the maximum size like he did in the first teshuva.”
Nonsensical. Manhattan, according to Rav Moshe is not a reshus harrabim because of 600,000 on the streets, since it is encompassed by mechitzos (only regarding bridges, which are not included in the mechitzos, does he discuss numbers). Brooklyn, according to Rav Moshe had three million over 12 mil by 12 mil, and hence is a reshus harabbim. Even if Brooklyn did not contain such a number, since one may think that it does, an eruv should not be established. However, this objection would only be a gezeirah.
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