Elizabeth Street Garden in Little Italy told it must close in 2 weeks
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The beloved Elizabeth Street Garden in Little Italy has been told it must close in two weeks as the city prepares to use the space for affordable housing, but some say the fight isn't over yet. CBS News New York's Naveen Dhaliwal has the story.
New York just keeps getting more and more depressing.
High density housing without green spaces is like living in a sardine can.
And this isn't that. THE GARDEN IS STAYING THERE. They are not just paving it over to build housing. There will still be the park there, they merely close it to the public while they build housing immediately next to it. This guarantees more people can actually use the park in the long term.
We don’t want affordable housing in NYC keep it in statan island or Jersey ❤❤❤ Jeffrey Epstein we want more parks! ❤❤❤
Its the peoples garden! It belongs to us!
You really don't know the history of this Garden. It is currently private and was closed to the public for decades - only recently and temporarily becoming open to the public in a cynical move, and then to be closed to the public.
Instead, the new move will keep most of the garden AND make it public AND make hundreds of much needed housing units. It's win-win-win.
Chain yourselves to the garden! We don’t want affordable housing! We want more parks!
What is ridiculous ?Affordable housing? The rents are not Affordable. They built some buildings in the Bronx. One right next door to me. Two years ago, it is still empty. The one across the street. It's still empty. So, the mayor needs t o take inventory as to what is going on in this city. No he's to busy dealing with his legal problems. There are more examples to many to mention.....
Same here there’s a building that was built 10 years ago for battered women. It’s completely empty and undergoing renovation. But thing is it’s only 10 years old. I looked in the dumpster the doors and windows were all still in good condition.
FOR SENIORS.... WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US???
More new housing built for seniors, the more existing housing for everyone else. This is a simple fact.
If you don't build fancy billionaire high-rises, then they bid with you for YOUR apartment. And I promise you, they win.
More housing being built means we don't bid against eachother as much, causing more housing options for everyone and in turn lowering rents. Yes rents do lower, just see Aukland and Austin and Tokyo and Minneapolis.
Long live the Garden 🙏
And it will live - with more housing next to it. The proposal doesn't destroy the garden, just allow housing nearby. That's all the fight is over: people not wanting new neighbors.
@@BritainRitten Ohs 🫢.. okays 🤗
Why not just build the housing somewhere else
Like Bensonhurst where the City Councilwoman literally bit the NYPD Lieutenant on 86th St?
Or use the vacant housing they currently have 😢
@@daeshawngordonOr rehabilitate the office space that has been vacant since the pandemic. I’m tired of hearing those “poor landlords” in midtown complaining that their buildings are empty when the solution is right there in front of them.
Everyone "somewhere else" also complains about "but why here??", causing nothing to be built anywhere. This is exactly the primary cause for the housing crisis in the first place.
More importantly, they are making the garden public, with housing build up beside it. Right now it is a completely private park which they recently made public to pretend it was public in the first place.
Have you not noticed that there's something about all people that make them want to rain on other peoples parades? That's why.
This is a disgrace.
Not at all, this is an improvement. Most of the garden is being kept AND there will be hundreds of housing units AND the garden is being made permanently public. Cuz right now it's private and only recently been made open to the public in a cynical move - it would close to the public again otherwise, as soon as the the proposed housing is rejected. Thankfully this wasn't rejected.
Real estate developers get what they want in New York City. Period.
How about focusing on the important question:
What's good for the tenant?
Answer: More housing being built.
This increases options for tenants, and competition for landlords, causing landlords to lower rents more than they otherwise would.
If builders make a profit off of serving a need, then who cares? I'd rather be against landlords who profit off of desperation of the tenants, compared to builders who make a good that people desire.
They’re not going to make anything affordable
The only way housing become affordable is to build more of it, which is exactly what's being proposed here.
This is wrong
"Progress" should never destroy the current good.
And it's not being destroyed. The garden is staying where it is, it's merely being closed temporarily to build housing next door.
This is wrong!
Not remotely. You get a park back after they build the much needed housing. And it'll be public this time, not just private (which was only recently opened up and would likely close up again)
There are plenty of place they can build affordable house. If this mayor and his cronies want another slap at how he is running this city he better think about what he is doing if he gets rid of this garden.
Wonder how much the mayor got paid for this. Maybe Robert de Niro can buy it.And If only there was an federally listed endangered butterfly or snail found their. Also whats next Central Park ?
The garden isn't being destroyed, just closed temporarily for construction of much needed housing nearby. More people will get access to the park after the housing is built (currently the garden is private and often excluded from the public anyway)
@@BritainRitten they are bulldozing the park and then re-landscape it's in the architectures plans. There's an abandoned skyscraper at the South Street Port that would be easier to renovate and hold more people for less cost. You can even see the the re landscaped image in this report
If you don't understand that the landlords will always win in NYC, you haven't been paying attention
Most existing landlords oppose new housing being built in their area, because it reduced the rental prices they can demand in the market. Existing landlords oppose new landlords competing with them. This is exactly why it's important to do the opposite of what they want and make tons of housing with tons of landlords so they have to fight for TENANTS, rather than the other way around.
Sound like fiction? This literally is happening right now in Austin TX, where landlords are offering lower rents to existing tenants to keep them from going to some of the brand new housing built in the last few years.
If they must build more affordable housing then incorporate the garden into the building. Rooftop gardens or balconies.
They are already doing that. This is often missed about this story: THEY ARE KEEPING THE GARDEN, just closing it temporarily.
Indeed, the current park is completely private and would close up again as it had been before. The new park will be public - plus people will have more much needed housing.
Don't they have 100,000 empty dwellings in NYC?
No. Rental vacancy is at an all-time low of 1.4%. We need far more housing than we currently have.
(btw, even if true, 100k in a city of 9 MILLION is 1.1%. It's nothing.)
these people forget where they chose to live lol
parking lot garden < over 100 homes
Exactly. AND they are making the park public instead of it currently being private.
Need to put the migrants some where.
These people protesting are awful.
After all you voted for it.
Give me a break, there’s plenty of other options, many vacant properties in the outer boroughs
Liberal Civil War😂😂
CURTIS SLIWA
FOR MAYOR 🇺🇲🇺🇲
Be serious
Heck no. As bad as Adams and other NYC Mayors have been, he will be worse.
Destroying that beautiful garden for a bunch of homeless junkies! Residents should hound the hell out of whoever decided that
You don't know what you're talking about. The park will NOT be destroyed, just closed temporarily for construction nearby. The park is private right now and would otherwise close up again as it had been before this charade. Now they are building housing AND reopening the park for all to enjoy.
Good who cares 🤷
Go trip into a sinkhole.
You voted for this, now enjoy it.
Hey everyone! Found the brain dead parrot in the comments
I will indeed enjoy having more housing opportunities AND a public park. (The current garden is private and would close to the public again as soon as this whole thing died down - as it was closed before)
You're right. I voted for affordable housing and help for the homeless.