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Mayor Eric Adams’s administration is designating the garden as parkland, which could stymie Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in his vow to revive the fight to put affordable housing there.
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 ...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has vowed to kick out the garden operators and build a long-delayed housing development for formerly homeless seniors on the site.
The move from the Adams administration is the latest salvo in the decade-plus battle over the private garden, which sits on city-leased land.
In previous plans, Adams had committed to building 123 affordable housing units and a Habitat for Humanity office on the garden site. However, last June he shifted his position, agreeing to pursue a broader plan elsew...
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro was behind the move, which will make it much harder for the new administration to build affordable housing on the site.
In another break with his rivals, Zohran Mamdani said he intends to evict the beloved Elizabeth Street Garden from a city-owned lot in Little Italy, undoing an agreement made between Mayor Adams, Council Member Christ...
