The Elizabeth Street Garden has gained two more weeks to avoid eviction.

A last-minute stay granted to the Manhattan Garden on Wednesday means a city marshal won’t be able to padlock the gates on Thursday as expected.

It’s the latest step in a years-long battle for SoHo’s beloved green space, which the city wants to transform into affordable housing for seniors. Advocates who want to save the garden say there are better spaces for a new building. But city officials, backed by Mayor Eric Adams, have called those claims disingenuous.

“There are thousands of older New Yorkers, New Yorkers of every shape, size and background, in shelters tonight,” Ahmed Tigani, first deputy commissioner of the Housing Preservation and Development Agency, said at an unusual last-minute news conference on Wednesday. “It’s all too easy to crack down on affordable housing in New York City.”

The buzz over the Elizabeth Street Garden, which is publicly owned but managed by a nonprofit organization, has grown in recent weeks after years of preparation. Some have argued that the garden wasn’t really made available to the public until the city presented plans to develop the site into affordable housing a decade ago.

Joseph Reiver, executive director of the garden, said the space has strong support from the community and that he has met with Mayor Adams about saving it.

“It’s amazing how many people support the garden,” he said.

But Tigani said the garden’s managers have stopped paying their rent, and that the need to build affordable housing for seniors outweighs any sympathy they have received from supporters.

“We have been working for 10 years to try to get this site to a place where 123 units of affordable senior housing can be created,” Tigani said.

The simple filing means an appellate judge will have to hear both sides again before October 30.

Reiver said the Garden’s supporters are ready to continue the fight.

“If HPD and the city go to court tomorrow, we will meet them there,” he said.