The developers who are proposing to build an affordable housing development over the Elizabeth Street Garden sued Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on Wednesday to stop his bid to permanently dedicate the site as parkland.

The case challenges the Adams administration's "last-minute, unilateral attempt" to stop future development at the site under incoming Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who had promised to advance the project.

In early November, Adams’ commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services Louis Molina announced the city’s decision to designate the Nolita community garden as government-owned parkland. The lawsuit argues the move subverted the city’s land use process “entirely and illegally,” according to the complaint filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

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