Cooperative Village is a community of housing cooperatives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The cooperatives are centered on Grand Street in an area south of the entrance ramp to the Williamsburg Bridge and west of the FDR Drive. Combined, the four cooperatives have 4,500 apartments in twelve buildings.
View of Grand Street. Amalgamated Dwellings (1930) in the foreground with two of the Hillman Housing buildings (1947-50) behind it. One of the East River Housing towers (1953-56) in the background.
The enclosed courtyard of Amalgamated Dwellings
Hillman Housing buildings on Grand Street as seen from the East River towers. Amalgamated Dwellings is seen between the second and the third tower
Towers of the East River Housing Corporation
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
