Residents of Manhattan’s SoHo and NoHo neighborhoods are suing to block implementation of the city’s approved rezoning of the area, a plan greenlighted just weeks before Mayor Eric Adams took office that is intended to increase affordable housing stock in the area.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, the residents allege that following through on the rezoning plan would actually produce less affordable housing than the city suggests, as well as compromise the character of the area and make for a less diverse, “denser, inharmonious and towering” neighborhood.
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