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Cooperative Village, the Glossary

Hillman Housing buildings on Grand Street as seen from the East River towers. Amalgamated Dwellings is seen between the second and the third tower Cooperative Village is a community of housing cooperatives on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City.^[1]

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Abraham E. Kazan

Abraham E. Kazan (1889–1971) is considered the "father of U.S. cooperative housing".

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Affordable housing

Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index.

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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was a United States labor union known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes.

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Amalgamated Housing Cooperative

The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative is a pioneering limited-equity cooperative in New York City.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.

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Auditorium

An auditorium is a room built to enable an audience to hear and watch performances.

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Benjamin Schlesinger

Benjamin "Ben" Schlesinger was a Lithuanian-born American trade union official and newspaper office manager.

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Bowery Savings Bank

The Bowery Savings Bank was a bank in New York City, chartered in May 1834.

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Castle Village

Castle Village is a five-building cooperative apartment complex located on Cabrini Boulevard between West 181st and 186th Streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Cooperative Village and Castle Village are apartment buildings in New York City, Condominiums and housing cooperatives in Manhattan and residential buildings in Manhattan.

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Chelsea, Manhattan

Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Co-op City, Bronx

Co-op City (short for Cooperative City) is a cooperative housing development located in the northeast section of the borough of the Bronx in New York City. Cooperative Village and co-op City, Bronx are apartment buildings in New York City.

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Credit union

A credit union is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative financial institution.

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East Broadway (Manhattan)

East Broadway is a two-way east–west street in the Chinatown, Two Bridges, and Lower East Side neighborhoods of the New York City borough of Manhattan in the U.S. state of New York. Cooperative Village and east Broadway (Manhattan) are Lower East Side.

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East River

The East River is a saltwater tidal estuary or strait in New York City.

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Edward Filene

Edward Albert Filene (September 3, 1860 – September 26, 1937) was an American businessman and philanthropist.

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Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists

The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was founded by Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd in May, 1946, primarily as a fundraising and policy-making agency.

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Emporis

Emporis was a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.

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Essex Crossing

Essex Crossing is an under-construction mixed-use development in New York City's Lower East Side, at the intersection of Delancey Street and Essex Street just north of Seward Park. Cooperative Village and Essex Crossing are Lower East Side.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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FDR Drive

Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive, commonly called FDR Drive for short, is a controlled-access parkway on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Flip tax

A flip tax is a fee paid by a seller or buyer on a housing co-op transaction, typically in New York City.

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Four Freedoms

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland

The General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland (translit, Ogólno-Żydowski Związek Robotniczy "Bund" w Polsce) was a Jewish socialist party in Poland which promoted the political, cultural and social autonomy of Jewish workers, sought to combat antisemitism and was generally opposed to Zionism.

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Grand Street (Manhattan)

Grand Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Cooperative Village and Grand Street (Manhattan) are Lower East Side.

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Gym

A gym, short for gymnasium (gymnasiums or gymnasia), is an indoor venue for exercise and sports.

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Henryk Ehrlich

Henryk Ehrlich הענריק ערליך)., sometimes spelled Henryk Erlich; 1882 – 15 May 1942) was an activist of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland, a Petrograd Soviet member, and a member of the executive committee of the Second International.

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Herman Jessor

Herman J. Jessor (June 15, 1894 – April 8, 1990) was an American architect who helped build more than 40,000 units of cooperative housing in New York City.

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Housing cooperative

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.

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Hudson Heights, Manhattan

Hudson Heights is a residential neighborhood within Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Hugo Gellert

Hugo Gellert (born Hugó Grünbaum, May 3, 1892 December 9, 1985) was a Hungarian-American illustrator and muralist.

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International Ladies Garment Workers Union

The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first US unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s.

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LeFrak City

LeFrak City (originally spelled Lefrak and pronounced) is a 4,605-apartment development in the southernmost region of Corona and the easternmost part of Elmhurst, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Lewis Street

Lewis Street is the third extended play by American rapper J. Cole.

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Library

A library is a collection of books, and possibly other materials and media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions.

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Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Lower East Side

The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Meyer London

Meyer London (December 29, 1871 – June 6, 1926) was an American politician from New York City.

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Mitchell–Lama Housing Program

Co-op city in the Bronx, a Mitchell–Lama development The Mitchell–Lama Housing Program is a non-subsidy governmental housing guarantee in the state of New York.

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Morris Hillquit

Morris Hillquit (August 1, 1869 – October 8, 1933) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of America and prominent labor lawyer in New York City's Lower East Side.

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Morris Sigman

Morris Sigman (1881–1931) was president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union from 1923 to 1928.

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Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (also known as Mutual of New York or MONY) was the oldest continuous writer of insurance policies in the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Department of Buildings

The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.

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Park La Brea, Los Angeles

Park La Brea (Spanish: La Brea—"The tar", after the nearby La Brea Tar Pits) is an apartment community in the Miracle Mile District of Los Angeles, California.

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Parkchester, Bronx

Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the central Bronx, New York City.

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Parkfairfax, Virginia

Parkfairfax is a neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia, located in the northwestern part of the city near the boundary with Arlington County.

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Parkmerced, San Francisco

Parkmerced is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

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Penn South

Penn South, officially known as Mutual Redevelopment Houses and formerly Penn Station South, is a limited-equity on the Penn South website. Cooperative Village and Penn South are Condominiums and housing cooperatives in Manhattan and history of labor relations in the United States.

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Pension fund

A pension fund, also known as a superannuation fund in some countries, is any program, fund, or scheme which provides retirement income.

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Preschool

A preschool (sometimes spelled as pre school or pre-school), also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary school.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.

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Project

A project is a type of assignment, typically involving research or design, that is carefully planned to achieve a specific objective.

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Public housing

Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Riverton Houses

The Riverton Houses is a large (originally 1,232 unit) residential development in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City. Cooperative Village and Riverton Houses are residential buildings in Manhattan.

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Rochdale Principles

The Rochdale Principles are a set of ideals for the operation of cooperatives.

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Rochdale Village, Queens

Rochdale Village (pronounced) is a housing cooperative and neighborhood in the southeastern corner of the New York City borough of Queens.

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Seward Park (Manhattan)

Seward Park is a public park and playground in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Cooperative Village and Seward Park (Manhattan) are Lower East Side.

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In financial markets, a share (sometimes referred to as stock or equity) is a unit of equity ownership in the capital stock of a corporation, and can refer to units of mutual funds, limited partnerships, and real estate investment trusts.

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Sidney Hillman

Sidney Hillman (March 23, 1887 – July 10, 1946) was an American labor leader.

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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.

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Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual arts.

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Southbridge Towers

Southbridge Towers is a big housing cooperative development located in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Cooperative Village and Southbridge Towers are Condominiums and housing cooperatives in Manhattan.

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Starrett City

Starrett City (formally known as the Spring Creek Towers) is a housing development in the Spring Creek section of East New York, in Brooklyn, New York City. Cooperative Village and Starrett City are apartment buildings in New York City.

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State of the Union

The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of most calendar years on the current condition of the nation.

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Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village

Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, colloquially known as StuyTown, is a large post–World War II private residential development on the east side of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Cooperative Village and Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village are residential buildings in Manhattan.

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Sunlight

Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.

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Tenement

A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Village

Also known as Amalgamated Dwellings, Coop Village, East River Housing Corporation, Hillman Housing Corporation, Seward Park Housing Corporation.

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