The Adams administration has designated the Elizabeth Street Garden as city parkland, making a bureaucratic maneuver that will likely complicate incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to build an affordable housing development for seniors on the site in Nolita.

The move, revealed in a Nov. 3 letter from Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Louis Molina, is the latest twist in the yearslong saga over the green space. Mayor Eric Adams, after initially supporting the plan to build 123 apartments at the site, dropped the effort over the summer. Mamdani had vowed to evict the garden in the first year of his administration.

Any development on parkland requires approval by the state legislature through a process known as alienation.

“By this notice, the City unequivoca

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