Per published reports, District 1 City Councilmember Christopher Marte has agreed to support the rezoning of three other parcels that could create more than 600 affordable units across Lower Manhattan while preserving the Elizabeth Street Garden as a publicly accessible space.
East Village-based artist Marcellus Hall shared the above illustrations on Instagram...
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This is good news that is a nice little park where you can go to sit and relax and unwind for a bit. It is good that the city finally said no to the all-powerful politically connected real estate developers for once.
This park is such a gem.
I have no reservations about a land-swap, but the politicians who are making this "deal" are giving up a sure development plan for three development plans that can be totally abandoned without any further action from the city or the courts, so really this is a lousy way to make the deal. The other developments should have been secured first. With these other sites, now THEIR neighbors can fight with Marte and get him to drop those deals and drag this out another decade or two. That's scummy.
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