Named after 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein, who was killed by a driver near his Brooklyn home in 2013 after he chased a soccer ball into the street — the law allows the city to lower the base speed limit to 20 mph and lets the Transportation Department set lower limits on individual streets — as low as 10 mph, depending on the street design.

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