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
Mitchell-Lama Housing Program Morningside Gardens (1957), Morningside Heights Southbridge Towers (1969), Lower Manhattan Confucius Plaza (1975), Chinatown, Manhattan River Terrace Co-op (1963) River View Towers (1963) Inwood Terrace (1959)
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