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(New York, NY) — Outgoing New York City Mayor Eric Adams is looking to keep the Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita from future development, to the dismay of incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The Adams administration just designated the Garden as city parkland, which would make it harder for Mamdani to execute on his plan to create affordable housing for seniors on the site. Mamdani responded saying Adams is using his final weeks and months to cement a legacy of dysfunction and inconsistency. Rules state that any development on parkland requires approval by the state.
On June 23rd, the acre-wide green space was officially preserved after the administration of New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, struck a deal with a local city councilman. The terms of the agreement require the city to abandon a plan to build an affordable housing complex called Haven Green with 123 units specifically for seniors that was originally introduced in 2012. .
According to the first deputy mayor, Randy Mastro, the Adams administration has pivoted to a deal with Democratic councilman Christopher Marte, who represents the area, that will involve rezoning multiple other sites in his district in order to build more than 620 affordable housing units.
