NEW YORK – An appeals court judge has shut down the city controversial deportation plans for the Elizabethstraat gardensay proponents.

The temporary order applies until October 30.

The city still plans to move forward with this the housing plan for the building.

For the time being, people can still use the garden. The temporary residential blocks the city’s plan to padlock itand then vacate the building. Its future remains uncertain.

“They are very aggressive about this,” said Joseph Reiver, director of the Elizabeth Street Garden. “More than a million letters have now been sent to the mayor.”

The garden has received the support of actor Robert De Niro, director Martin Scorsese and singer-poet Patti Smith, who all wrote letters urging the mayor to halt the housing project.

‘We want more green, not more concrete’

The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) wants to turn the one-acre site into an affordable housing complex for low-income seniors called Haven Green.

“Well, we want more green spaces, not more concrete,” said park visitor Rosa Williams.

“This is a place that needs to be cherished, a place that needs to be saved,” said Lower East Side resident Alex Choy.

“We already have enough buildings, and there are other places where we can put people and save a place like this,” said Lower Manhattan resident Constantine Muamba.

However, Mayor Eric Adams and HPD officials are promising to get the new affordable housing onto the garden site as soon as possible.

“The garden is a beautiful place, but there is a greater beauty in being able to accommodate New Yorkers,” Adams said.

“We deliver both open space – open space that the community deserves – and affordable housing,” said HPD First Deputy Commissioner Ahmed Tigani.

New York City Councilman Christopher Marte says he helped broker a deal that allowed the project to be moved to other locations.

“We believe this is a win-win situation,” Marte said.

Meanwhile, the city and the Garden’s fans continue to fight.

“We are not surprised or deterred – we are working to immediately resolve this last-minute attempt to prevent the city from building the affordable housing and public green space this neighborhood deserves. This is nothing new — the wealthy Elizabeth Street Garden has been digging in for nearly a decade to prevent the city from building affordable housing for low-income and formerly homeless seniors. “As the city faces an acute housing shortage and seniors are priced out of their homes, we will continue to fight for what is right – the delivery of housing and public green space on this city-owned land,” said a spokesperson for the town hall.