New York City’s outgoing Mayor Eric Adams has designated the long-embattled Elizabeth Street Garden as parkland, weeks after Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani vowed to renew the eviction of the plot to create affordable housing. The quaint lower Manhattan garden, which houses several Neoclassical sculptures and a notable Gilded Age balustrade, was served an eviction notice last October. The city owns the plot of land occupied by the garden and had planned to build affordable housing for low-income and LGBTQ+ seniors there, with construction expected to begin later this year. The Adams administration backed down from its eviction pursuit in June and instead vowed to build more affordable units at three alternative sites. The garden’s advocates celebrated the city’s reversal as a win, but in a rapid-fire interview with Hell Gate last month, then-candidate Mamdani said he would evict the garden within his first year in office. However, the mayor-elect told reporters on Thursday that Adams’s d...