![]() Since 2013, Chiche and others in the Little Italy neighborhood have been worried about city plans to replace the garden with yet another building. Eyes shut, she inhales deeply and basks in its scent. ![]() Below, a visitor stops to bring one of the flowers to her nose. "In this place, I learned that there is such a thing as falling in love with a garden," Chiche, 55, said while standing on a stone balcony overlooking a blossoming pink rose bush. It transported her back to France, her home country, with its dozens of beautifully aging neoclassical sculptures and columns. It wasn't like any other garden in the city, she remembers thinking. LOWER MANHATTAN - Emmanuelle Chiche remembers the first time she stumbled upon Elizabeth Street Garden, a charming green space hidden between rows of concrete buildings in lower Manhattan. ABC7 New York 24/7 Eyewitness News Stream ![]()
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