Elizabeth Street Garden, the Nolita green space that's been fought over for the better part of a decade, has been saved from redevelopment. That's the word from both Chelsea News and amNewYork this week, and residents reportedly celebrated on-site.

Neither report, as summarized, spells out exactly what becomes of the housing plan the site had long been earmarked for — that detail belongs in the full articles below, not in this recap, and we're not going to guess at it. What's confirmed is simpler: the preservation side of this fight has won, and the garden is staying put on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan.

This is a pipeline story as much as a park story. A site that spent years as a line item in somebody's future affordable-housing plans just came off the board — for good, apparently, after multiple false alarms over the years. If you'd penciled this address into a five-year outlook for GC or sub work, cross it off. And if you track Manhattan sites tangled up in preservation fights, this is the outcome worth studying: the garden side outlasted the development timeline.

Read the full coverage at Chelsea News and amNewYork for the settlement or land-use detail — including what, if anything, happens next to the housing plan that had been attached to this address.