Elizabeth Street Garden, located on Elizabeth Street between Prince and Spring Streets, is a popular public area where New Yorkers can do a myriad of activities such as yoga and poetry reading in a dense city like New York City. Given the housing crisis, the city has been pushing to develop affordable housing apartments on the site. It ended up successful as a New York appellate court approved  a 123 apartment development for lower-income people over the age of 62, and their families. This overturned a lower-court ruling that halted the project after opponents sued. Units of the project will be for people earning less than $60,000, and also those that were once homeless. Opponents of the project see it as an open area for public use and have filed a challenge under environmental laws.

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