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Mayor Adams Aims To Make Elizabeth Street Garden An Official NYC Park: Report
The city designated Elizabeth Street Garden as parkland, halting plans for 123 affordable senior apartments and shifting housing efforts to nearby sites, officials said.
- On Nov. 3, the Adams administration designated Elizabeth Street Garden as city parkland, with Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Louis Molina formalizing transfer to the Parks Department.
- After supporting development earlier this year, Mayor Eric Adams reversed course amid celebrity pleas and First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro's deal with Councilmember Christopher Marte.
- HPD had planned 123 affordable senior apartments at the site, while the Elizabeth Street Garden nonprofit says the 20,000-square-foot space faced eviction and unpaid rent.
- By law, development on parkland requires state alienation, and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said this makes completing the project nearly impossible before Jan. 1, while the city agreed to rezone three nearby sites for 620 affordable apartments.
- With weeks left before Jan. 1, the timing limits site transfers while Mayor Eric Adams said the move protects his legacy and three nearby sites face the lengthy city land-use process.
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Mamdani rips NYC Mayor Eric Adams for making Elizabeth Street Garden housing project 'nearly impossible'
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Eric Adams makes last-ditch bid to save celeb-beloved Elizabeth Street Garden that Zohran Mamdani wants to evict
Mayor Eric Adams' administration is making a last-ditch bid to save the SoHo sculpture garden -- by designating it as official city parkland -- before the incoming Zohran Mamdani administration takes over, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post.
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