List of New York City housing cooperatives

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A partial list of housing cooperatives in New York City

[edit] 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"

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

Amalgamated Warbasse Houses on Coney Island

East River Houses, (1956), in Cooperative Village, 1,672 units,
Seward Park Housing Corporation, in Cooperative Village, 1,728 units
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 (1969-1971),Baychester area of the Bronx 15,382 units
Twin Pines Village (Starrett City) (1975), 5,881 units, southern Brooklyn