Elizabeth Street Garden Group Protests At Bill De Blasio's Gym

NEW YORK, NY — Advocates for a Nolita garden protested outside of Bill de Blasio's gym on Tuesday morning, demanding the mayor step in and save the Manhattan green space.

The Elizabeth Street Garden, located between Prince and Spring streets, might be uprooted by the city to make room for affordable senior housing on the site. Supporters of the garden are demanding that the senior housing be built at a different site. They say that the SoHo-Little Italy neighborhood doesn't have enough green space.

Fans of the garden gathered on Tuesday outside of the mayor's Park Slope gym with pleas to save the garden. The protest was first reported by DNA Info on Tuesday morning.

The garden's passionate advocates formed a nonprofit, the Friends of Elizabeth Street Garden, in their quest to save the space.

A spokeswoman for the nonprofit told DNA Info that the Park Slope protest is part of a "long-term 'Wake-Up' campaign directed at educating the mayor and all those seeking to destroy Elizabeth Street Garden."

De Blasio travels from the mayor's residence at Gracie Mansion to work out at the Park Slope YMCA. The head of an NYPD police union employed a similar tactic while negotiating pay raises for NYC officers. Pat Lynch, the head of the Police Benevolent Association, said he followed de Blasio around Park Slope to put pressure on de Blasio to agree to the pay raise.

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