Elizabeth Street Garden

The Elizabeth Street Garden is a one-acre (0.40 ha) community sculpture garden in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Located on Elizabeth Street between Prince and Spring Streets, the garden is owned by the city government and managed by the eponymous Elizabeth Street Garden (ESG), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and open to the public for general use and community events. Allan Reiver, who operated the neighboring Elizabeth Street Gallery, began developing the once vacant and city-owned site as a garden in 1991. The New York City Housing Authority took over the land in 2012, later planning to develop affordable housing on the site. After a lengthy dispute over the garden, in 2024, the New York Court of Appeals ruled to allow the development. However, the city government canceled plans for development in June 2025, and Mayor Eric Adams designated the garden as a city park that November. His successor, Zohran Mamdani, indicated during his campaign that he would restart plans for development, but dropped these plans in 2026.

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