After over a decade, the fight for\u00a0Elizabeth Street Garden is now over.<\/p>\n
The developers who were set to start construction in the space filed a lawsuit against the city, but announced on Thursday that they are dropping it.<\/p>\n
In exchange, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the developers can build new housing on a vacant lot at 22 Suffolk St. instead.<\/p>\n
It will include more than 180 affordable homes, including affordable housing for seniors.<\/p>\n
A statement on behalf of the development team said: \u201cHaven Green was never solely about housing or solely about preserving open space. The goal was to prove that New York City could achieve both.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the City moving forward with the development of 22 Suffolk Street and the garden transitioning to public stewardship, that objective has been realized,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n
The battle over the space that houses Elizabeth Street Garden started in 2013.<\/p>\n
It was set to be converted from a green space to an affordable housing complex.<\/p>\n
Previously, the Adams administration killed the Haven Green housing project to save the garden shortly before leaving office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After over a decade, the fight for\u00a0Elizabeth Street Garden is now over. The developers who were set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2908,109,25,2907,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,87,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-320975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-housing","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-housing","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}