Freedomland : Co-op City and the Story of New York

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795625403321
• Autore: Sammartino Annemarie H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-5017-1645-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 pages)
• Disciplina: 334/.109747275
• Soggetti: Housing, Cooperative; Housing, Cooperative - New York (State) - Bronx County - History - 20th century; New York (State) Bronx County
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--