In a transaction that will add 2 acres to the city's public land, a patch of meadow and woods along a stream in North Baltimore has been sold to the city with the state providing $150,000 for the transaction.

The seller is the Bolton Street Synagogue, which is building a new synagogue next to the meadow in the 200 block of West Cold Spring Lane.

Synagogue leaders agreed to sell the north half of their 4-acre parcel to address the community's wish to preserve recreational green space and access to Stoney Run in the Evergreen neighborhood on the east side of Roland Park.

Gary Felser, chairman of the synagogue's building committee, said the synagogue is pleased the land was bought by the city.

Two years ago, the synagogue purchased the 4-acre parcel from Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., which had a substation there, because its 400-member congregation was growing too large for its current quarters, he said.

City officials said the Evergreen neighborhood association has agreed to maintain the plot.