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

Flood-prone Hoboken, New Jersey, has opened a play area for its youngest residents that doubles as storage for stormwater runoffFor 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. Continue reading...