List of New York City housing cooperatives
Overview
- Finnish Home Building Association in Brooklyn, started in 1918 by Finnish immigrants
- Hudson View Gardens (1923–25), Hudson Heights, real estate developer Charles PaternoCharles V. PaternoDr. Charles V. Paterno was a New York City real estate developer. His work includes the following Manhattan residences:* Castle Village* Hudson View Gardens* The Colosseum* The 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 ApartmentsDunbar ApartmentsConstructed in 1926, the Dunbar Apartments are a set of buildings in North-Central Harlem in New York City, built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to provide housing for African Americans. The apartments were designed by architect Andrew J. Thomas, noted for his designs in the community of Jackson...
, built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.John D. Rockefeller, Jr.John Davison Rockefeller, Jr. was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the sole son among the five children of businessman and Standard Oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers...
in 1928 as a housing cooperative to provide housing for African Americans.
