Mayor Eric Adams’ administration will drop the decade-old plan to build affordable housing on the city-owned site of a Lower Manhattan sculpture garden, officials announced Monday.

The Elizabeth Street Garden in Lower Manhattan was going to be razed to make way for affordable housing for older New Yorkers. Now the plan may be on hold.

If the school board approves the reconfiguration plan, changes would start in August 2025 and continue in phases for three years. Garden City Public Schools said the reconfiguration would cost ...

Mayor Adams said Monday his administration is killing a long-stalled plan to build affordable apartments for senior citizens in Manhattan's Elizabeth Street Garden, a reversal that stoked outrage ...