List of New York City housing cooperatives explained

A partial list of housing cooperatives in New York City.

Projects originally built as housing cooperatives

• Alku and Alku Toinen, started in 1916 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

Under the Housing Development Fund Corporation

• 566 W. 159th Street, Washington Heights
• 1007-09 E. 174th Street, the Bronx
• Lenox Court, East Harlem

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 (1962), 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

• Morningside Gardens (1957), Morningside Heights
• 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.

See also

• List of condominiums in the United States

References

• Labor and housing in New York City
• 2004 Annual Report – Mitchell-Lama Housing Companies in New York State
  • DHCR-Supervised Developments Within New York City
  • DHCR-Supervised Developments Outside New York City