I lived in Coop 20 years(1997-2017). Great place!! I have to admit that the photos of Robert Moses and Herman Badillo @4:43 got me a little nauseous but i managed to fight through the rest of the video knowing that both of them are hopefully rotting in Hades. Great stuff and thank you so much!! BTW. It just figures that the slight and I mean slight bit of affordable and non-institutional looking housing in NYC for working class folks came about from my Socialist brothers(mostly Jewish) who would be seen as "radical Leftist Commies" nowadays! Thank you Coop for allowing me to raise a family and have great neighbors all these years !!!
I lived in Co-op City, moved there in 1972. This brought back so many memories. Thank you for this video, my Dad is in the video about the rent strike, he was on the Board of Directors. I was so surprised to see that. Thank you.
When I went to school here in the 70s and early 80s, I remember diverse classes. I had friends who were Jamaican, Jewish, African American, Central American. I naively thought it was like that everywhere. That's what I loved about growing up here.
America is a polyculture and we need to acknowledge that - this myth of America as white needs to be set aside in favor of a brighter truth; we are a nation of immigrants (and also the natives that are entitled to this place).
I enjoy living in a multi/poly cultural country, but it is a PC myth that multiculturalism is actually good for stability. It has been proven over and over and over again that it does not help.
Homeless some 40+ years and have hitch-hiked more than 100,000 miles. Gone past there several times (I'm an Arizonan). Looks park-like and warm . . . with a short walk from the subway.
Damn bro imagine one day those trees will grow to the size of like 5 stories and loom over people like wow that’ll be so sick. Would love to live there
lucky. I'm trying to start a housing co-op down here in Charlotte, NC but having trouble finding any resources to help with starting one as they are not really a thing down South.
The model that is shown in the photo @16:03 looks like the developers had planned some type of development in the area of what is now Liberty State Park in New Jersey. Interesting.
The Co-op City documentry was very informative. It answered all the questions i had. P.S. If nys really wanted to , they could bring back Co-op development with in the 5 boro.
How noisy is it inside, all jammed together like that? They apparently managed to retain decent people and pride of ownership. If it was all homies it would probably be demolished by now - over crime.
I lived in coop city from birth until I was about 17 in the mid 90s. We left because of the demographic change. It went from mostly older Jewish to African American. Statistical realities being what they are, crime went up. It didn’t work.
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I lived in Coop 20 years(1997-2017). Great place!! I have to admit that the photos of Robert Moses and Herman Badillo @4:43 got me a little nauseous but i managed to fight through the rest of the video knowing that both of them are hopefully rotting in Hades.
Great stuff and thank you so much!!
BTW. It just figures that the slight and I mean slight bit of affordable and non-institutional looking housing in NYC for working class folks came about from my Socialist brothers(mostly Jewish) who would be seen as "radical Leftist Commies" nowadays!
Thank you Coop for allowing me to raise a family and have great neighbors all these years !!!
I lived in Co-op City, moved there in 1972. This brought back so many memories. Thank you for this video, my Dad is in the video about the rent strike, he was on the Board of Directors. I was so surprised to see that. Thank you.
My grandma lives here in building 15A
When I went to school here in the 70s and early 80s, I remember diverse classes. I had friends who were Jamaican, Jewish, African American, Central American. I naively thought it was like that everywhere. That's what I loved about growing up here.
We need more places like coop city in the usa now
Beautiful documentary on Co-op city
Great documentary. It's so lovely to see how members love coming home to their co-op.
My old neighborhood
Amazing! Vienna has some 60 percent affordable housing like this. We should join them!
Polyculturalism makes us stronger.
America is a polyculture and we need to acknowledge that - this myth of America as white needs to be set aside in favor of a brighter truth; we are a nation of immigrants (and also the natives that are entitled to this place).
I enjoy living in a multi/poly cultural country, but it is a PC myth that multiculturalism is actually good for stability. It has been proven over and over and over again that it does not help.
Homeless some 40+ years and have hitch-hiked more than 100,000 miles. Gone past there several times (I'm an Arizonan). Looks park-like and warm . . . with a short walk from the subway.
It even has it own Police Department, very nice, Co-op City Police Department. 🚔
Damn bro imagine one day those trees will grow to the size of like 5 stories and loom over people like wow that’ll be so sick. Would love to live there
I live here. I didn't think there were any videos about it.
lucky. I'm trying to start a housing co-op down here in Charlotte, NC but having trouble finding any resources to help with starting one as they are not really a thing down South.
The model that is shown in the photo @16:03 looks like the developers had planned some type of development in the area of what is now Liberty State Park in New Jersey. Interesting.
THAT'S WHAT WE NEED NOW NOT HOUSING BUT CHEAP OWNERSHIP THAT'S WHY IT WORKS
The Co-op City documentry was very informative. It answered all the questions i had. P.S. If nys really wanted to , they could bring back Co-op development with in the 5 boro.
of course they could - but there is no will sadly. Quite a few Asian cities have done a much better job
How noisy is it inside, all jammed together like that? They apparently managed to retain decent people and pride of ownership. If it was all homies it would probably be demolished by now - over crime.
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Built with substandard materials .
I was evicted
7:45 Is this "breakdown" politically correct by today's standards?
I was thinking that also
Trust me, it wasn't that politically correct back then either depending on who you ask.
@@q21a27 you probably work for the MTA
I lived in coop city from birth until I was about 17 in the mid 90s. We left because of the demographic change. It went from mostly older Jewish to African American. Statistical realities being what they are, crime went up. It didn’t work.
My old neighborhood