New York Elizabeth Street Garden will be saved in an agreement that includes 620 affordable dwellings, say sources
The beloved Elizabeth Street Garden in New York will be saved After a one -year battle To preserve it, sources indicate that the political journalist of CBS News New York, Marcia Kramer.
The garden was set to close this spring And be replaced by affordable housing for the elderly, despite the proceedings and pleads of the community to preserve the park.
Sources say that mayor Eric Adams has signed an agreement with the member of the Council Christopher Marte, who represents the District of the Garden in Manhattan, to move forward with a plan that preserves the public garden and moves the affordable housing nearby.
As part of the agreement, the city will allow the garden to remain open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily and, in exchange, Marte will support the rezoning of three other sites for accommodation even more affordable than initially planned. The mayor says that this plan will lead to more than 620 new affordable houses, as opposed to the original 123 which would have been built on the garden site.
“The best way to fight against the housing crisis in our city is to build as many affordable dwellings as possible. The agreement announced today will help us meet this mission by creating more than five times affordable accommodation originally planned while preserving a beloved local public space and widening access,” said Adams in a prepared statement. “This is what intelligent and responsible leadership looks like: bringing people together to reach common sense solutions that create more housing and protect green space.”
“This incredible win-win for our community shows exactly why we should never give up,” said Marte. “Since the start of this fight almost a decade ago, we say that we can save community gardens and build new affordable housing. And with this historic agreement with the mayor Eric Adams, it will be the largest influx of new affordable housing permanently in Lower Manhattan for decades.”
Marcia Kramer contributed to this report.
