"First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro gave Pennrose, Riseboro and Habitat for Humanity New York City and Westchester an ultimatum last week: If they want to develop 22 Suffolk Street, they must drop their lawsuit against the city. The city-owned site is being offered in exchange for the development team abandoning its legal fight over the Elizabeth Street Garden. The city tapped the developers in 2017 to build 123 units of senior housing at the garden site, a project known as Haven Green."
"In June, the administration announced that it would leave the garden intact and would instead move forward with housing projects on three other sites: 22 Suffolk Street, 156-166 Bowery Street and 100 Gold Street. Projects on those sites, which need to be rezoned, would net thousands of housing units, including hundreds more affordable units than planned for the garden site."
"After Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani made clear that he would evict the garden once in office, the Adams administration designated the city-owned site as parkland. At the time, Mamani said that undoing the action would prove nearly impossible because it would require buy-in from the state legislature. However, the development team sued the city in November, arguing that the administration couldn't unilaterally declare the site a city park. Such a land-use change would need to go through the city's Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or Ulurp, which is required to map land as a city park, according to the lawsuit."
City officials offered the developers 22 Suffolk Street if they drop a lawsuit challenging the Elizabeth Street Garden park designation. The developers were selected in 2017 to build 123 senior housing units at the garden as the Haven Green project. After a 2024 court victory, the Adams administration planned to evict the garden but later proposed housing on three alternate sites that would produce thousands of units and more affordable housing. The administration designated the garden site parkland after Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he would evict it. The development team sued, arguing that mapping the land as a park requires ULURP.
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