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Introduction to this web site, Links

Click here to jump to Ayn Rand's description of the Cortlandt Homes, an interesting contrast written a quarter-century before Co-op City was built.

Envprinter@aol.com has a beautifully scanned site map and apartment floor plan on his site.

Riverbay Corporation finally has a presence on the web! (Thanks CasalsK!)

CasalsK's Co-op City Page. CasalsK knows what's good about Co-op City. Check out her Co-op City Message Board.

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Places and People

The Co-op City board on America On Line

I've been getting a lot of guest registrations saying visitors were pointed here from mentions on AOL.

I signed up with AOL, and found the source. It was the CO-OP City Topic on the Where are They Now? Board of the Baby Boomer Forum, Keyword: Baby Boomers.

That discussion board is about people. In many cases it's people I grew up with, or at least around. Thanks for bringing up those memories. I'm moved beyond words. But people have never been my strong suit, so this site remains about a place.

There's a place on a related page for Residents, past and present, and anyone else who has something to say. If you'd like to be listed, please send mail or sign the guestbook -- I'll try to keep up with the comments and add them as they come in. (That page is current to late 2002.)

1970s Section Five reunion pictures

Apartment living

NYC phenomenon

In New York, and a few other large cities, apartments are as permanent homes as are houses elsewhere. In other places apartments are transitional housing, for students, recent graduates, or the recently married, or second class housing for people that haven't gotten their act together. Co-op City must not be viewed in that light.

Which is not to say that there aren't advantages to be gained by moving to suburbia, and having a yard of one's own.

The PJs

This animated series is about People of Color living in a small, low-income, subsidized housing project in more recent times. Co-op City was multi-ethnic, but primarily white, in my time (especially in the older sections), middle-income, extremely large, and generally self-supporting. But something about the series makes me homesick. Maybe it's the cinder blocks and exposed pipes (present more in the basements, stairwells, and back halls of the community centers than in the places were civilized, non-engineers hung out.)

Home improvements

One difference between apartment living and house living is in the area of home improvements. Most changes that people made to their apartments were from the walls in (painting, panelling, tiles, shelving.) A neighbor (an electrician) who ran coaxial from room to room by drilling through the wall was considered adventurous. And all those "improvements" had to be restored on move-out, either by the tenant, or by management with costs deducted from the equity buy-in return.

Things are very different when one owns a home and is responsible for its upkeep.

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