Co-op City is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. It is bounded by Interstate 95 to the southwest, west, and north and the Hutchinson River Parkway to the east and southeast, and is partially in the Baychester and Eastchester neighborhoods. With 43,752 residents as of the 2010 United States Census, it is the largest housing cooperative in the world. It is in New York City Council District 12.
Co-op City, as seen from the east, sits along the Hutchinson River.
Viewed from the Pelham Bridge
Plaque commemorating former Freedomland U.S.A. theme park
Co-op City in 1973; the lot in the foreground is a dump
A housing cooperative, or housing co-op, is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure. Typically housing cooperatives are owned by shareholders but in some cases they can be owned by a non-profit organization. They are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family home ownership, condominiums and renting.
Housing cooperatives on Central Park West in Manhattan, New York City, from left to right: the Majestic, the Dakota, the Langham, and the San Remo
999 N. Lake Shore Drive, a co-op–owned residential building in Chicago, Illinois
Housing cooperative in New Borg El Arab city, Egypt
Typical cheap late 19th century corporation housing in Amsterdam
