Metro

Wife busted in slay attempt after trying to get undercover cop to run over hubby

Elena Adams (Stephen Yang)

A woman who lives in the same lower Manhattan apartment building as Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was busted yesterday on charges of trying to hire a hit man to murder her unemployed hubby so she could cash in on his life insurance.

Elena Adams, who’s been squabbling with husband Irving over money for years, allegedly plotted to have him mowed down in a hit-and-run on Sunday, and handed over jewelry and a $60,000 stamp collection as collateral for the contract killing.

But the “hit man” she allegedly hired was actually an undercover investigator with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, and Elena, 57, was charged with conspiracy and criminal solicitation after meeting with him.

Sources said Elena, a native of Romania, spends time in Sheepshead Bay, where she told a fellow immigrant several months ago, “I need you to help me kill my husband.”

The friend ratted her out to cops in the 61st Precinct, who got the Brooklyn DA’s Office to send out an investigator skilled in posing as a hit man.

Yesterday, Elena rode around in the investigator’s car and gave him a photo of her husband, along with the jewelry and a bunch of rare German stamps, cops said.

The plan, which sources said was caught on tape, was for Elena to have lunch with Irving at a restaurant at Avenue Z and East 11th Street, after which he would be run down while crossing the intersection, cops said.

“There was no love in that marriage,” said a neighbor who lives in the downtown high-rise Elena shares with the police commissioner.

Additional reporting by Frank Rosario