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‘Cloudburst’ System Turns a Queens NYCHA Complex Into a Rainfall Sponge

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The city’s Department of Environmental Protection helped create a new drainage system in South Jamaica, Queens basketball court to help with sudden heavy rains.

On a sunny Friday morning, a group of summer camp kids dribbled a basketball on a court on the campus of the New York City Housing Authority’s South Jamaica Houses.  The sky was clear blue, without a cloud in sight. But in a downpour, the court transforms from a place to shoot hoops into a […]

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