List of New York City housing cooperatives

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

Sponsored by the United Housing Foundation and International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Architects George W. Springsteen and Herman Jessor

Amalgamated Warbasse Houses on Coney Island

Mitchell-Lama Housing Program

Converted rental property

See also

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