Mamdani Drops 123-Home Elizabeth Street Garden Plan as City Nears Lawsuit Settlement
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 11
Mamdani Drops 123-Home Elizabeth Street Garden Plan as City Nears Lawsuit Settlement
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 11
Summary
123 affordable homes planned for Elizabeth Street Garden are set to be scrapped, with Mayor Zohran Mamdani expected to settle developers’ lawsuit within days by ending the project.
Months of talks followed a suit by Pennrose, Habitat for Humanity and RiseBoro, which challenged the prior administration’s parkland designation as unlawful and said it killed a needed housing project.
1 acre in NoLIta has been the center of a decade-long fight between preservation and development, with celebrities and neighbors fiercely opposing construction on the community garden site.
180 affordable homes at 22 Suffolk Street are still moving ahead nearby, giving Mamdani an alternative housing project as he abandons the more contested garden development.