Manhattan oasis, senior housing vie for space
Elizabeth Street Garden may be torn down to build subsidised homes
New York
SPHINXES greet you regally as you enter from Elizabeth Street. The carved lions beyond look like three-dimensional heraldic emblems. Cabbage-white butterflies skim over tomato plants that are ready for an end-of-summer harvest. Readers turn book pages idly. Lovers conspire in the shade of two abundant pear trees.
How unlikely in a hard-edge part of Manhattan: This tiny, beguiling, ragtag version of the Boboli Gardens in Florence, Italy, sandwiched between Spring and Prince streets.
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