Eric Adams makes last-ditch bid to save Elizabeth Street Garden that Zohran Mamdani wants to evict

The Elizabeth Street Garden could be seeing greener pastures – as an official city park.

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is making a last-ditch bid to save the SoHo sculpture garden — by designating it as official city parkland — before the incoming Zohran Mamdani administration takes over, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Post.

The designation was cemented in a Nov. 3 letter from Adams’ Department of Citywide Administrative Services Commissioner Louis Molina, Gothamist first reported Wednesday.

Mamdani, the mayor-elect who takes office on Jan. 1, has promised in multiple interviews that he would move forward with evicting the beloved greenspace within his first year in office, in order to make way for an affordable housing development.

The move from the Adams administration is the latest salvo in the decade-plus battle over the private garden, which sits on city-leased land.

The ensuing fight over the space has resulted in celebrities like Robert De Niro and Patti Smith championing the effort, as well as thousands of letters to the city from seniors, students and other supporters who enjoy the rare Manhattan respite.

Adams, who vowed for years to build 123 affordable senior housing units and Habitat for Humanity offices at the site of the garden, later changed his tune last June with an agreement to build on a larger plan elsewhere.

A request for comment from Mamdani was not immediately returned.

In a statement, affordable housing advocacy group Open New York slammed the Adams decision.

“With this disgraceful final act, the Adams Administration is once again prioritizing elite comfort over affordable homes for vulnerable elderly people. Eric Adams’ time in City Hall may be over, but this fight is not,” the group fumed.

“In 2026, Open New York will be working with Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul, and the State Legislature to undo this pathetic lame-duck move.”