HUD official trapped in elevator during public housing visit

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal housing official’s monthlong tour of New York City public housing complexes hit a speed bump when she got stuck in an elevator.
Lynne Patton and 10 other people were trapped in an elevator at the Frederick Douglass Houses in Manhattan for about 10 minutes on Tuesday before being freed by firefighters.
Patton is the New York-New Jersey regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She is spending four weeks living in four differe