Co-op City
Contributed Section 5 Pictures
This page has Section 5 pictures Kathy sent me, with her descriptions. Lots of
pictures taken from the apartment with snow on the ground: I always thought that
was a dramatic picture.
It's my intention to add any more that I get to this page, until they need
more organization. If you want to send
any pictures to me please make it clear that it is OK to post them here,
and if you want give me a title and description for the picture, so I don't
have to guess. I try to make all the pictures here sharp, bright, contrasty,
and no wider than 512 pixels and degraded (lossy JPEG or few-color GIF) to be
no more than 20 or 30 kb in size, for faster loading. If the picture isn't
that way I'll use my judgement as to cropping, resizing, and so forth -- and
if you don't like what I do, tell me and I'll pull it and we can work together.
Blizzard
Garage 8 after the Blizzard of 1978
This bridge takes the Amtrak Northeast Corridor mainline, the New Haven line,
over the Hutchinson River. The river is frozen solid.
View from 18th floor towards Town Houses and Building 27 and Chevron
Building 31.
Buildings 26 and 31. In between the buildings is the snow-covered
garbage dump.
Our car in front of Building 34, navigating the snow on Elgar Place.
View from Building 30 towards homes outside Section 5. For some reason we
called the the Shacks. Off in the distance you can see I-95.
At one time there was a sign declaring that section "The Historic
Village of Baychester". A bunch of houses, many below street grade.
They must have hated it when Co-op City went up.
Blizzard of 1978, Triple Core Building 27
Orchard Beach
View from my terrace. To the right is Orchard Beach.
Basketball Court
Section 5 basketball court, Einstein Loop shopping center, Building 35
Section Five Greenway, then and now
Section Five Greenway, before it was paved. New Haven rail section of the
Amtrak Northeast Corridor mainline (just north of the old Baychester Station),
Hutchinson River, Hutchinson River Parkway bridge. The satellite dishes date
this as later than about 1978.
Section Five Greenway, paved for parking, 2003.
Another view, Section Five Greenway, paved for parking, 2003.
Andrea's Section 5 Page
Andrea had a Co-op City reunion in 1999. I've had a link to her
old
photos on the introductory page for this site for years; her
main Co-op City page, for the reunion, is here. The
gracious contributor of the pictures on this page is
pictured there as well.
Diptych
I stitched Kathy's two pictures of Buiding 31 together.
Rochdale
