{"id":341905,"date":"2026-09-09T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:58:35","slug":"nyc-rolls-out-15-mph-school-slow-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341905\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC rolls out 15 mph school ‘slow zones’"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRIBECA, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 As kids head back to school on Thursday, the message is simple: slow down.<\/p>\n

The city is rolling out hundreds of new 15-mile-per-hour school \u201cslow zones\u201d as kids head back to class.<\/p>\n

NYC Department of Transportation says it\u2019s the largest-ever expansion of Sammy\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n

It is named for Sammy Cohen Eckstein, a 12\u2011year\u2011old boy killed by a driver outside his Brooklyn home in 2013.<\/p>\n

Roughly 800 school locations are expected to have 15-mile-per-hour slow zones in place by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

The changes go beyond speed limits.<\/p>\n

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The DOT is also working on street redesigns around more than 300 schools, adding measures including wider pedestrian areas, safer crossings and traffic-calming features.<\/p>\n

On Clarkson Street, the city is also preparing to install what it says will be New York\u2019s first gated Open Street outside a school.<\/p>\n

In fact, 77 school Open Streets allow streets to be closed to vehicles at designated times for drop-off, pick-up, recess and outdoor learning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

School is back in session on Thursday, so as you head out,\u00a0 you can expect children and families around school zones and crosswalks; drive safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIBECA, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 As kids head back to school on Thursday, the message is simple: slow down.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-341905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}