List of New York City housing cooperatives

List of New York City housing cooperatives

A partial list of housing cooperatives in New York City

Projects originally built as housing cooperatives

* Finnish Home Building Association in Brooklyn, started in 1918 by Finnish immigrants
* Hudson View Gardens (1923-25), Hudson Heights, real estate developer Charles Paterno, architect George Fred Pelham, Jr.
* United Workers Cooperative Colony (1927-1929), 339 + 385 units, on Allerton Avenue on the Bronx, sponsored by communist garment industry workers; known as "The Communist Coops"
* Dunbar Apartments, built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1928 as a housing cooperative to provide housing for African Americans. Bankrupt in 1936 and taken over by Rockefeller.

Sponsored by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Architects Springsteen and Goldhammer, Herman Jessor
* Amalgamated Housing Cooperative (1927, 1947-49, expansion 1952-55, 1968-70 Bronx, "The Amalgamated", 1,435 units; still operating as a co-operative
* Amalgamated Dwellings (1930), in Cooperative Village, Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City , 236 units
* Hillman Housing Corporation (1947-1950), in Cooperative Village, 807 units

Sponsored by the United Housing Foundation and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Architects George W. Springsteen and Herman Jessor
* East River Houses, (1956), in Cooperative Village, 1,672 units,
* Seward Park Housing Corporation, in Cooperative Village, 1,728 units
* Mutual Houses and Park Reservoir Housing Corporation (1955), Bronx affiliated with Amalgamated Housing
* Penn South (1963), 2,820 units, Chelsea, Manhattan
* Rochdale Village (1965), 5,860 units, central Queens
* Amalgamated Warbasse Houses (1965), 2,585 units, Coney Island, Brooklyn
* Amalgamated Towers (1969), 316 units (see "Amalgamated Housing Cooperative" above)
* Co-op City (1968-1971), Baychester area of the Bronx 15,382 units
* Twin Pines Village (Starrett City) (1975), 5,881 units, southern Brooklyn

Mitchell-Lama Housing Program
* Southbridge Towers (1969), Lower Manhattan
* Confucius Plaza (1975), Chinatown, Manhattan

Converted rental property

* Castle Village (1939, 1985), real estate developer Charles Paterno, architect George Fred Pelham, Jr.

References

* [http://www.lesonline.org/cv/LABOR%20AND%20HOUSING%20IN%20NEW%20YORK%20CITY.pdf Labor and housing in New York City]
* [http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ohm/pubs/html/mlhcar04id.htm 2004 Annual Report - Mitchell-Lama Housing Companies in New York State]
** [http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ohm/pubs/html/mlhcar04nyc.htm DHCR-Supervised Developments Within New York City]
** [http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/ohm/pubs/html/mlhcar04onyc.htm DHCR-Supervised Developments Outside New York City]


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