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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Victoria St Martin

‘A place for kids to play and a place to store water’: the stormwater capture zone that is also a playground

A parking lot full of yellow cabs in floodwater
A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday 30 October 2012 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Photograph: Charles Sykes/AP

For a city that is almost small enough to fit inside Manhattan’s Central Park just a few miles away, a lot of history has played out within the narrow borders of Hoboken, New Jersey.

It was the site of the first organised baseball game in 1846, home of one of the US’s first breweries in the 17th century and the place where Oreo cookies were first sold in 1912. And, as any Hobokenite will tell you, the Mile Square City, as it is called, is also known for something else.

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