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Queens Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas and State Senator John Liu joined community advocates Tuesday to celebrate the passage of Sammy's Law, a

Amy Cohen,wants lawmakers to pass "Sammy's Law," proposed pedestrian-safety legislation named in honor of her late son Sammy Cohen Eckstein who was killed on Park Slope street.

Vision Zero, the initiative to eliminate traffic fatalities, seems to have stalled, if the reoccurring tragedies on a single Brooklyn avenue are any proof.

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New York City advocates and local legislators gathered at city hall on Wednesday with a message aimed at the state Assembly: Let New York City lower its own

“Speed kills.” You never understand the truth of those words until it happens to someone you love. Sadly, for one of us, this is all too real. Seven years ago, 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein was killed by a speeding driver in Brooklyn. He was just trying to go to soccer practice in the park across the street.