2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities › Article 41 - Regulation of Traffic by Towns › 1662-A - Speed Limits in Certain Towns.

§  1662-a.  Speed  limits  in  certain  towns.  The  town board of any
  suburban town governed pursuant to article three-A of the town  law  and
  the  town  board  of  any other town having a population exceeding fifty
  thousand, with respect to highways (which term for the purposes of  this
  section  shall  include  private  roads  open  to  public  motor vehicle
  traffic) in such towns outside any village, other  than  state  highways
  maintained  by the state on which the department of transportation shall
  have established  higher  or  lower  speed  limits  than  the  statutory
  fifty-five  miles  per  hour  speed limit as provided in section sixteen
  hundred  twenty  of  this  title,  or  on  which   the   department   of
  transportation shall have designated that such towns shall not establish
  any   maximum  speed  limit  as  provided  in  section  sixteen  hundred
  twenty-four of this title, subject to the limitations imposed by section
  sixteen hundred eighty-four of this title may by local  law,  ordinance,
  order,  rule  or  regulation  establish  maximum  speed  limits at which
  vehicles may proceed within such towns, within designated areas of  such
  towns  or  on  or along designated highways within such towns lower than
  the fifty-five miles per hour maximum statutory  limit.  No  such  speed
  limit  applicable  throughout  such  towns or within designated areas of
  such towns shall be established at less than twenty-five miles per hour,
  except that in the town of Hempstead speed limits may be established  at
  not  less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion of a highway in the
  community known as Point Lookout and  on  all  or  any  portion  of  the
  following   highways  in  the  community  known  as  Lido  Beach:  Ocean
  Boulevard, Allevard  Street,  Bath  Street,  Buxton  Street,  Cheltenham
  Street,  Pinehurst  Street,  Harrogate  Street, Matlock Street, Nantwick
  Street, Biarritz Street, Royat Street, Luchon Street,  Woodhail  Street,
  Leamington  Street,  Saratoga  Street,  Kensington  Street, and Prescott
  Street; provided, however, that no such speed limit in such town may  be
  established  unless  a  majority of the residents of each such community
  file a petition with the town board of such town requesting  such  speed
  limit.  No  such  speed limit applicable on or along designated highways
  within such towns shall be established at less  than  twenty-five  miles
  per hour, except that school speed limits may be established at not less
  than  fifteen  miles per hour, for a distance not to exceed one thousand
  three hundred twenty feet, on  a  highway  passing  a  school  building,
  entrance or exit of a school abutting on the highway, and except further
  that  in  the  town  of Hempstead speed limits may be established at not
  less than fifteen miles per hour on any portion  of  a  highway  in  the
  communities  known  as  Point Lookout and Lido Beach; provided, however,
  that no such speed limit in  such  town  may  be  established  unless  a
  majority  of  the  residents of each such community file a petition with
  the town board of such town requesting such speed limit. No speed limits
  shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this  section  except
  in  accordance with the engineering considerations and factors for speed
  limits set forth in the manual and specifications for a  uniform  system
  of   traffic   control   devices   maintained  by  the  commissioner  of
  transportation pursuant to section sixteen hundred eighty of this title,
  as such manual and specifications may be  amended  from  time  to  time,
  certified by a licensed professional engineer who specializes in traffic
  operations.