Freedomland : Co-op City and the story of New York /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sammartino, Annemarie (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Co-op City (New York, N.Y.) > History. Housing, Cooperative > New York (State) > Bronx County > History > 20th century. Electronic books. 1900-1999
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Co-op City and the story of New York
"The world's greatest housing cooperative": building a new cooperative, 1965-1968
"Everyone was seeking a Utopia": building a community, 1969-1973
"We remember picket lines": cooperator militancy, 1970-1974
"No way, we won't pay": the rent strike years, 1975-1976
"We inherited a mess!": after the rent strike, 1977-1981
"Co-op City is the Bronx": a middle-class community, 1982-1993
"The biggest housing bargain in town": achieving financial stability, 1981-1993
Epilogue: Freedomland today.