Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden may be nearing its end after receiving an eviction notice from the city Sheriff’s Office Wednesday.

“We were expecting it for some time,” local resident Jane Calderon said. “We just didn’t know when it was going to happen.”

“Very disappointed, incredibly disappointed,” Brandi Barrett, another resident of the neighborhood, said. “We thought that somehow the garden would be saved.”

The nonprofit of the same name, Elizabeth Street Garden, runs the Little Italy and SoHo space, was told in the notice on Wednesday to vacate the premises in 14 days.

Director Joseph Reiver, whose father started the garden back in the 1990s, said it’s the only public green space in the community.

“We are doing everything that we can between now and the end of that eviction notice, that 14 day notice, to do what we can to prevent the eviction,” Reiver said.

“You get to know each other and it’s just a little gem in an urban town,” Calderon said.

A court-ordered stay that ended on Sept. 10 cleared the way for the eviction, which comes a week after Mayor Eric Adams said the city would proceed with plans to transform the 20,000-square-foot space into affordable housing for seniors, after the City Council voted to do so back in 2019.

City officials said the project, dubbed Haven Green, includes 120 apartments for older New Yorkers, including 40 who are unhoused, along with about 14,000 square feet of public green space.

”[This will] meet the housing challenge for a vulnerable population, our seniors, who are in desperate need of options in a city that has increasingly become very difficult for them to afford to live in,” Ahmed Tigani, the first deputy commissioner at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, said.

Reiver said his nonprofit has proposed alternative sites, including a city-owned lot located at 388 Hudson Street in the West Village.

“We need it, not at the expense of community green space, which is also important,” he said. “It’s also needed. We’re also in a climate crisis. We’re in also in a mental health crisis.”

The nonprofit leader also said more than 5,000 letters in support of saving the garden have been sent to the mayor, along with more than 9,000 petition signatures.

The city said it is considering building affordable housing at 388 Hudson and other places, though, there’s no indication the city is budging on the garden.

“We are in a housing crisis situation with a vacancy rate of 1.4%,” Tigani said. “This is not a build here and not there. This is a, we need to build in every spot and we would love as many ideas as possible.”