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Elizabeth Street Garden

Elizabeth Street Garden
Elisabeth Street Garden Front.jpg
Front Entrance of Garden
Location Elizabeth Street (Manhattan), between Prince & Spring streets New York City
Coordinates 40°43′19.9″N 73°59′40.7″W / 40.722194°N 73.994639°W / 40.722194; -73.994639
Established 1991
Website ElizabethStreetGarden.com

Elizabeth Street Garden is a community sculpture garden of nearly one acre in the Nolita neighborhood in New York City located on Elizabeth Street (Manhattan), between Prince & Spring streets. The Garden is managed by Elizabeth Street Garden INC. (ESG) a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and open to the public for general use and community events by ESG volunteers.

The original site of P.S. 106, later renamed P.S. 21 designed by master school architect C.B.J. Snyder in 1903 with public outdoor space that functioned as a neighborhood social and civic center. The school stood at least through the mid-to-late 1970s. In 1981, the Little Italy Restoration Apartments were built on Spring St., including much of the former school site. Plans to build a new school never panned out due to community opposition, and the school’s playground became a vacant 20,000-sq-ft lot with frontage on Elizabeth and Mott streets, between Prince and Spring streets that eventually became the garden.

In 1990, Manhattan Community Board 2 Parks Committee passed a resolution in favor of leasing it to Elizabeth Street Gallery on a month-to-month basis. In 1991, the Elizabeth Street Garden was developed and created by Allan Reiver owner of Elizabeth Street Gallery located in a renovated 1850s New York City firehouse adjacent to the garden property on Elizabeth Street. Reiver planted an array of perennial flowers, native plants and trees with a display of architectural remnants, gates, fencing, statuary, tables, and seating from his gallery collection.

In 2013 the garden became the subject of a public debate surrounding the development of public housing or to establish a more community-centered public green space.

On April 2nd of 2017, Elizabeth Street Garden Inc. (ESG) began to manage and represent Elizabeth Street Garden along with the Community. Committed to exploring every option available to preserve and protect the Garden and save the Community green space in Nolita, ESG was created by former members of the Garden’s previous organization, active garden volunteers, and advocates for community gardens.


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