- We are here in the Habitat Garden
between the Hudson River
estuary and the highway.
This garden is full of native plants,
meaning they live here naturally
in this part of the world.
When we have green spaces like this,
it's really helpful in reducing CSO impacts.
This acts like a sponge and absorbs rainwater,
and really helps to prevent flooding too.
Now when we prevent rainwater from entering
our sewers we're also helping to prevent things
like oil and litter from entering our waters,
and we're able to have waters clean enough for recreation
like boating and kayaking and swimming,
and plants and animals are healthy.