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NY Times article about New York City’s installation of permeable pavement to fight flooding

It was a sunny day in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and city officials were standing in the street, staring at the pavement.

A man in a hard hat and yellow vest turned on a hose, and water flowed out onto the street. Most streets are covered in standard asphalt, a hard surface that water pools on top of. But in this case, the water disappeared, seeping through the pavement before it reached the curb.

This was permeable pavement, and it might already be on a street near you: In the last fiscal year, New York City’s Department of Design and Construction has installed about four miles’ worth of the porous material.