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Freedomland : Co-op City and the Story of New York
Title
Freedomland : Co-op City and the Story of New York / Annemarie H. Sammartino.
ISBN
9781501716454
9781501716447
9781501716430
Publication
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (320 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Tells the story of the 35 towers and 236 townhouses of Co-op City in the Bronx from the perspective of the men and women who dreamed it and built it, and of the ordinary people who lived there"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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