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Manhattan oasis, senior housing vie for space

Elizabeth Street Garden may be torn down to build subsidised homes

Published Thu, Sep 24, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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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.

In contrast to…

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