Simcha Eichenstein

In March 2020, Eichenstein co-sponsored a bill promoted by Pamela Hunter that sought to end driver license suspensions for drivers with unpaid fines, saying "Without a driver’s license a person cannot drive to work or to school or even to court to pay their fine...Let's keep our safe and responsible drivers on the roads instead of being embroiled in needless and wasteful court appearances...This new legislation would represent a victory for all New York drivers."

On April 26, 2018, Eichenstein announced his candidacy for the open New York State Assembly District 48 seat, covering most of Borough Park and part of Midwood, Brooklyn, being vacated by Dov Hikind. He won the seat unopposed in the general election, becoming the first Hasidic lawmaker from Brooklyn elected to any level of government. As Hikind's handpicked successor, Eichenstein was considered to be the front-runner in the race, running unopposed as the Democratic candidate in the primary election in September 2018. His candidacy was supported by Rebbes of various Hasidic sects, including Bobov, Satmar, Ger and Belz as well as by Senator Charles Schumer, former Senator Joseph Lieberman, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

In July, 2011, Eichenstein, by then a known political operative, was at the front lines of the search for the suspect in the murder of Leiby Kletzky. His wife helped to identify Levi Aron through her job as a receptionist at the dentist's office that Aron was a patron of.

From 2011 till 2015, Eichenstein was the senior adviser to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Following this he was director of political and governmental services to the Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio.

Simcha Eichenstein was born in August 1983 to a rabbi from a prominent Bobover rabbinical family in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where he grew up and attended yeshivas.