Adams Nixes Senior Apartments at Elizabeth Street Garden, Stunning Housing Advocates

Amid a housing crisis, Mayor Eric Adams made a signature push for more apartments, spearheading zoning changes as part of a goal to build half a million new homes, even over the objections of some local community leaders.

But the Adams administration on Monday nixed the long-planned development of 123 affordable apartments for seniors on city-owned land in Lower Manhattan, known as Haven Green, at the Elizabeth Street Garden in NoHo.