Outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ administration proposed what it described as a winning deal for ending the Elizabeth Street Garden saga — something it says will preserve the small patch of Nolita land while still providing housing for hundreds of New Yorkers, amNewYork learned on Monday.
First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro wrote a letter on Dec. 26 to the three developers behind the planned affordable housing on the Elizabeth Street Garden site, stating that the city would offer them a significantly larger contract, provided they drop their lawsuit to control the historic land.
