- List of New York City housing cooperatives
A partial list of
housing cooperative s inNew York City Projects originally built as housing cooperatives
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Finnish Home Building Association in Brooklyn , started in 1918 by Finnish immigrants
*Hudson View Gardens (1923-25),Hudson Heights , real estate developerCharles Paterno , architectGeorge Fred Pelham, Jr .
*United Workers Cooperative Colony (1927-1929), 339 + 385 units, onAllerton Avenue on theBronx , sponsored by communist garment industry workers; known as "The Communist Coops"
*Dunbar Apartments , built byJohn 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 , ArchitectsSpringsteen and Goldhammer ,Herman Jessor
*Amalgamated Housing Cooperative (1927 , 1947-49, expansion 1952-55, 1968-70Bronx , "The Amalgamated", 1,435 units; still operating as a co-operative
*Amalgamated Dwellings (1930 ), inCooperative Village ,Lower East Side ofManhattan ,New York City , 236 units
*Hillman Housing Corporation (1947 -1950 ), in Cooperative Village, 807 unitsSponsored by the
United Housing Foundation andInternational Ladies' Garment Workers' Union . ArchitectsGeorge W. Springsteen andHerman Jessor
* East River Houses, (1956 ), in Cooperative Village, 1,672 units,
*Seward Park Housing Corporation , in Cooperative Village, 1,728 units
*Mutual Houses andPark Reservoir Housing Corporation (1955 ),Bronx affiliated with Amalgamated Housing
*Penn South (1963 ), 2,820 units,Chelsea, Manhattan
*Rochdale Village (1965 ), 5,860 units, centralQueens
*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 theBronx 15,382 units
*Twin Pines Village (Starrett City ) (1975 ), 5,881 units, southernBrooklyn Mitchell-Lama Housing Program
*Southbridge Towers (1969),Lower Manhattan
*Confucius Plaza (1975),Chinatown, Manhattan Converted rental property
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Castle Village (1939, 1985), real estate developerCharles Paterno , architectGeorge 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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