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}}Template:Main other 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. 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,<ref name=PLP5/> it is the largest housing cooperative in the world.<ref>"Urban Mass: A Look at Co-op City" Template:Webarchive, The Cooperator. Accessed December 2006.</ref> It is in New York City Council District 12.
Co-op City was formerly marshland before being occupied by an amusement park called Freedomland U.S.A. from 1960 to 1964. Construction began in 1966 and the first residents moved in two years later, though the project was not completed until 1973. The construction of the community was sponsored by the United Housing Foundation and financed with a mortgage loan from New York State Housing Finance Agency.
The community is part of Bronx Community District 10 and its ZIP Code is 10475. Nearby attractions include Pelham Bay Park, Orchard Beach and City Island.
DescriptionEdit
Co-op City's 15,372 residential units are composed of 35 high-rise buildings and seven clusters of townhouses, making it the largest residential development in the United States.<ref>A Walk Through the Bronx Template:Webarchive, WNET. Accessed June 18, 2007. "Co-op City is a middle income cooperative located in the northeastern corner of the Bronx and is the largest single residential development in the United States. Completed in 1971, it consists of 15,372 residential units, in thirty-five high-rise buildings and seven clusters of townhouses."</ref> It sits on Template:Convert, though only 20% of the land was developed, leaving many green spaces. The apartment buildings range from 24 to 33 floors. There are four types of buildings: 10 Triple Core (26 stories high with 500 apartment units per building), 10 chevron (24 stories, 414 units), 15 tower (33 stories, 384 units), and 236 town houses. The townhouses are three stories high and have a separate garden apartment and upper duplex apartment.<ref>Cheslow, Jerry. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Co-op City; A City, Bigger Than Many, Within a City" Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, November 20, 1994. Accessed September 28, 2017. "There are four building styles in Co-op City: the 26-story Triple Core, which has three entrances and 500 units; the 24-story Chevron, with 414 units; the 33-story, 384-unit Tower, and the three-story town-house buildings, with one-bedroom apartments on the ground floor and three-bedroom units on the other floors. In all, there are 35 high-rise buildings and seven town-house clusters, some of which have two, some three, buildings."</ref>
This "city within a city" also has eight parking garages, three shopping centers, a Template:Convert educational park, including a high school, two middle schools, and three grade schools. More than 40 offices are rented by doctors, lawyers, and other professionals, and there are 15 houses of worship. Spread throughout the community are six nursery schools and day care centers, four basketball courts, and five baseball diamonds. The adjacent Bay Plaza Shopping Center has a 13-screen multiplex movie theater, department stores, and a supermarket.
The development was built on landfill, and the original marshland still surrounds it. The building foundations extend down to bedrock through 50,000 pilings,<ref>Cheslow, J. "If You're Thinking of Living In/Co-op City Template:Webarchive" New York Times, November 20, 1994.</ref> but the land surrounding Co-op's structures settles and sinks a fraction of an inch each year, creating cracks in sidewalks and entrances to buildings.<ref>Puza, D, and Breslin, R, "Saving a Sinking City" Civil Engineering—ASCE, Vol. 67, No. 2, February 1997, pp. 48–51</ref>
Street namesEdit
Most streets in the community are named after notable historical personalities. Generally, streets in section one begin with the letter "D", section two begins with the letter "C", section three with the letter "A", section four with the letter "B" and section five with the letter "E". Baychester Avenue is in section 1<ref name=":0" />
- Adler Place – named for archaeologist Cyrus Adler<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp
- Alcott Place – named for author Louisa May Alcott, it is located directly above the former path of Rattlesnake Brook, which originated in Edenwald<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Aldrich Street – named for author Thomas Bailey Aldrich<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Asch Loop – named for author Sholem Asch<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Bellamy Loop – named for writer Edward Bellamy, it was located on the eastern edge of Pinckney's Meadow and located on the path of Rattlesnake Brook before becoming part of Freedomland<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Benchley Place – named for writer Robert Benchley<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Broun Place – named for sportswriter Heywood Broun<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Carver Loop – named for inventor George Washington Carver, it was formerly swampland and a tidal creek, not part of Freedomland<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Casals Place – named for conductor Pablo Casals, it was formerly swampland and not part of Freedomland<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Cooper Place – named for author James Fenimore Cooper, it was formerly a navigable tidal creek<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Darrow Place – named for lawyer Clarence Darrow<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Debs Place – named for socialist Eugene V. Debs<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Defoe Place – named for author Daniel Defoe<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- De Kruif Place – named for microbiologist Paul de Kruif<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Donizetti Place – named for composer Gaetano Donizetti, it was a mill lane for 250 years before Co-op City was built<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Dreiser Loop – named for journalist Theodore Dreiser, it was part of the parking lot for Freedomland and located on the path of Rattlesnake Brook<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Earhart Lane – named for aviator Amelia Earhart, it was formerly occupied by barges and frame houses<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Einstein Loop – named for physicist Albert Einstein, it is the site of Givans and Barrow Creeks, on what was formerly the 14-acre Rose Island<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Elgar Place – named for composer Edward Elgar, it is the site of Givans Creek<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Erdman Place – named for poet Loula Grace Erdman, it is the site of Givans Creek<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Erskine Place – named for educator, author, pianist, and composer John Erskine<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
Other streets include:
- Bartow Avenue – named after Reverend John Bartow who served as rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Westchester Square, and whose son later owned land in Pelham Bay Park<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Baychester Avenue – originally called South 18th Avenue and Comfort Avenue, named after the Baychester real estate venture of the 1890s<ref name=":0" />Template:Rp
- Hutchinson River Parkway – named for the Hutchinson River, which is named for Anne Hutchinson<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Hunter Avenue
HistoryEdit
Previous land useEdit
In the 1920s the land that would become Co-op City had been set aside, intended for a future municipal airport.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The land north of the Hutchinson River Parkway was a large swampy area known by residents as "the dump", and most of the land on the north side of the Hutchinson River was flat land used for recreation.
The land to the south of the Hutchinson River (now Section 5 of Co-op City) was swampland. A tidal estuary reached from the Hutchinson River at the New Haven Railroad along a route just north of Hunter and Boller Avenue to pass under the Hutchinson River Parkway. The estuary was the site of boat yards and canoe rental sites during the 1950s.
The northern portion of the site became the home of a 205-acre theme park named Freedomland U.S.A. Freedomland operated from June 19, 1960<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> until September 1964, when it closed after going bankrupt.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A small portion of the former park site at the northeast corner of Bartow and Baychester Avenues in Co-op City remains zoned as a C7 district,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> reserved "for large open amusement parks".<ref name="nyc.gov zoning">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The zoning district is a holdover from Freedomland's operation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Issuu 19102">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
DevelopmentEdit
In February 1965, plans were announced for the residential Co-op City development, the world's largest housing cooperative, on the site.<ref name=":4">Template:Cite news</ref> The plans for Co-op City were announced in May 1965, with no provisions for an amusement park.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Construction on Co-op City began in May 1966.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> While much of the Freedomland site and some of the surrounding land was infilled, several existing houses were retained along Givans Creek (near Section 5 of Co-op City) because of opposition from residents there. These houses received sewage and other utilities, though these projects were delayed. There was a controversy when Co-op City builders filled the land to grade, because the existing houses were located as much as Template:Convert below grade, and filling for the main development caused storm runoff to flood the existing houses.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Residents began moving in during December 1968,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and construction was completed in 1973. The project was sponsored and built by the United Housing Foundation, an organization established in 1951 by Abraham Kazan and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and was designed by cooperative architect Herman J. Jessor. The name of the complex's corporation itself was later changed to RiverBay at Co-op City.
FinancingEdit
The construction of the community was financed with a mortgage loan from New York State Housing Finance Agency (HFA).<ref name=":1" /> The complex defaulted on the loan in 1975 and has had ongoing agreements to pay back HFA.
Mismanagement, shoddy construction, and corruption led to the community's defaulting on its loan in 1975. The original Kazan board resigned, and the state took over control. Cooperators, faced with a 25-percent increase in their monthly maintenance fees, organized residents to refuse to pay their monthly maintenance fees. New York State threatened to foreclose on the property and evict the residents, which would mean the loss of their equity. However, cooperators stayed united and held out for 13 months (the longest and largest strike of its kind in United States history) before a compromise was finally reached, with mediation from then-Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams and then-New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo. Cooperators would remit $20 million in back payments of maintenance fees, but they would get to take over management of the complex and set their own fees.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The shares of stock that prospective purchasers bought to enable them to occupy Co-op City apartments became the subject of protracted litigation, culminating in a United States Supreme Court decision United Housing Foundation, Inc. v. Forman, 421 U.S. 837 (1975).<ref name= uhfvf>Template:Cite court</ref> 57 residents sued because they had been charged for costs that were not described in a 1965 Information Bulletin seeking to attract residents for apartments in Co-op City. The Supreme Court held that federal courts have no jurisdiction of shares of stock that allow the purchaser to live in an apartment in Co-op City because they are not federally-regulated shares of commercial stock.<ref>Template:Cite court</ref>
In 2004, Co-op City was financially unable to continue payments to HFA due to the huge costs of emergency repairs. New York Community Bank helped RiverBay satisfy its $57 million mortgage obligation, except for $95 million in arrears, by refinancing the loan later that same year. This led to the agreement that Co-op City would remain in the Mitchell-Lama Housing Program for at least seven more years as a concession on the arrears and that any rehabilitation that Co-op City took on to improve the original poor construction (which happened under New York State's watch) would earn credit toward eliminating the debt. By 2008, RiverBay had submitted enough proof of construction repairs to pay off the balance of arrears to New York State.
RenovationsEdit
Within the first decade of the 2000s, the aging development began undergoing a complex-wide $240 million renovation, replacing piping and garbage compactors, rehabilitating garages and roofs, upgrading the power plant, making facade and terrace repairs, switching to energy-efficient lighting and water-conserving technologies, replacing all 130,000 windows and 4,000 terrace doors (costing $57.9 million in material and labor) and all 179 elevators. The word "renaissance" is being used to describe this period in Co-op City history. Many of these efforts are also helping in the "greening" of the complex: the power-plant will be less polluting, the buildings will be more efficient and recycling efforts will become more extensive. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) awarded its largest ever grant—$5.2 million—to the community under its NY Energy $mart Assisted Multifamily Program.
In 2003, after a partial collapse in one garage, inspectors found 5 of the 8 garages to be unsafe and ordered them closed for extensive repairs. The other 3 garages were able to remain partially open during repairs. To deal with the parking crisis, New York City allowed angled parking in the community, the large greenways in the complex were paved over to make outdoor parking lots and agreements were made with nearby shopping centers to use their extra parking spaces. All garages were re-opened by January 2008, and work began to restore the greenways that had been paved.
Financial responsibility for these upgrades was the subject of a protracted dispute between RiverBay and the State of New York.<ref>"Co-op City secures $480m loan to pay mortgage, finance repairs" Template:Webarchive New York Times. Accessed September 15, 2004. "Many of the needed repairs stem from construction-related defects, and Co-op City residents and state officials have been arguing for years over who should pay for them."</ref> Co-op City was developed under New York's Mitchell-Lama Program, which subsidizes affordable housing. RiverBay charged that the state should help with the costs because of severe infrastructure failures stemming from the development's original shoddy construction, which occurred under the supervision of the state. The state countered that RiverBay was responsible for the costs because of its lack of maintenance over the years. In the end, a compromise had the state supplying money and RiverBay refinancing the mortgage, borrowing $480 million from New York Community Bank in 2004, to cover the rest of the capital costs.<ref>"Residential Real Estate; Co-op City Hires Outside Managers" Template:Webarchive The New York Times. Accessed November 5, 1999</ref>
In 2007, the power plant was in the process of upgrading from solely managing the electricity brought in from Con Edison to a 40-megawatt tri-generation facility with the ability to use oil, gas or steam (depending on market conditions) to power turbines to produce its own energy. The final cost of this energy independence could be as much as $90 million, but it is hoped to pay for itself with the savings earned—with conservative estimates at $18 million annually—within several years. Also, whatever excess power generated after satisfying the community's needs will be sold back to the electrical grid, adding another source of income for RiverBay.
In September 2007, a report by the New York Inspector General, Kristine Hamann, charged that the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR), which is responsible for overseeing Mitchell-Lama developments, was negligent in its duties to supervise the contracting, financial reporting, budgeting and the enforcement of regulations in Co-op City (and other M-L participants) during the period of January 2003 to October 2006. The report also chided Marion Scott management for trying to influence the RiverBay Board by financing election candidates and providing jobs and sports tickets to Board members and their family/friends—all violations of DHCR and/or RiverBay regulations. The DHCR was instructed to overhaul its system of oversight to better protect the residents and taxpayer money.<ref>"An In-Depth Review of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal's Oversight of the Mitchell-Lama Program" Template:Webarchive. State of New York Office of the Inspector General. September 2007</ref>
In October 2007, a former board president, Iris Herskowitz Baez, and a former painting contractor, Nickhoulas Vitale, pleaded guilty to involvement in a kickback scheme. While on the RiverBay Board, Baez steered $3.5 million in subsidized painting contracts for needed work in Co-op City apartments, to Vitale's company, Stadium Interior Painting, in exchange for $100,000 in taxpayer money.<ref>Cornell, Kati. "PAINT MISBEHAVIN' AT CO-OP" Template:Webarchive, The New York Post, October 19, 2007. Accessed January 20, 2008.</ref> Herskowitz Baez was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 12 months' probation and given a $10,000 fine in March 2008.<ref>"FORMER CO-OP CITY BOARD PRESIDENT SENTENCED TO JAIL TIME FOR ACCEPTING KICKBACK PAYMENTS" Template:Webarchive, United States Attorney Southern District of New York, MARCH 2008</ref>
2010s to presentEdit
During January 2015, an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease sickened 8 people near Co-op City's cooling towers. Twelve people were diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease between December 2014 and the end of the outbreak in January 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Another outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in 2018 sickened three people, one of whom died.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
As a result of the continued presence of the amusement park zoning lot at Bartow and Baychester Avenues, there were no restrictions on the heights of signs on that lot. In late 2017, the site's owner began erecting tall LED billboards on the lot, a move opposed by Co-op City residents since one of the billboards faced Co-op City, keeping residents awake at night.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following year, residents proposed changing the lot's zoning to a standard commercial use.<ref name="Bronx Times 20182">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Issuu 19102"/> A tall wind turbine was erected on the lot in December 2019.<ref name="News 12 The Bronx 2019">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The turbine toppled later that month, knocking down the billboard, but causing no injuries.<ref name="News 12 The Bronx 2019" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ManagementEdit
RiverBay Corporation is the corporation that operates the community and is led by a 15-member board of directors. As a cooperative development, the tenants run the complex through this elected board. There is no pay for serving on the board. The corporation employs over 1000 people and has 32 administrative and operational departments to serve the development.
The complex has its own Public Safety Department with more than 100 sworn officers. In December 2007, the cable television company Cablevision gave RiverBay permission to use its fiber optic cables in order to install additional surveillance cameras throughout the complex to be viewed at the Public Safety Command Center. In 2008, trained supervisors were granted the power to write summonses for parking and noise violationsTemplate:Cn and Segways were acquired – along with bikes – to help the officers patrol during the warmer months.
Co-op City was managed by Marion Scott Real Estate, Inc. from October 1999 to November 2014. Before then the property was run by in-house general managers. The development is currently managed by Douglas Elliman Property Management.
There are two weekly newspapers serving the community: Co-op City Times (the official RiverBay paper) and City News.
Qualifications for resident applicationEdit
When Co-op City first opened, the original residents were required to pay $450 per room in equity and subsequently $25 per room in carrying charges.<ref name=":1" />
As of November 15, 2022, people who applied to live in Co-op City must meet the following requirements.<ref name="application">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Applicants must not have any criminal convictions for producing methamphetamine in the home
- Applicants must not be legally required to be a lifetime registrant on the state sex offender registry
- Applicants must have a FICO credit score of at least 650 or, if no credit score, documentation of bills paid consistently
- Applicants must be subject to a home visit during the application process
- Applicants' children must attend school if age 5+
The following requirements depend on the number of rooms and number of residents.<ref name= application/>
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Maximum residents |
Sales price | Monthly maintenance payment |
Minimum annual income (age 18–61) |
Minimum annual income (age 62+) |
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Maximum annual income (4+ residents) |
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| 3 | 1 | 2 | $22,500 | $807 | $28,786 | $26,370 | $77,683 | — |
| 3.5 | 1 | 2 | $26,250 | $941 | $33,472 | $30,167 | $89,957 | — |
| 4 | 1 | 2 | $30,000 | $1007 | $38,187 | $34,158 | $103,654 | — |
| 4.5 | 2 | 4 | $33,750 | $1,212 | $43,027 | $38,724 | $115,850 | $126,117 |
| 5 | 2 | 4 | $37,500 | $1,344 | $47,781 | $43,002 | $121,409 | $137,475 |
| 6 | 4 | 6 | $45,000 | $1,616 | $57,315 | $52,663 | $145,157 | $166,471 |
| 6.5 | 4 | 6 | $48,750 | $1,739 | $62,141 | $55,925 | $156,315 | $179,766 |
DemographicsEdit
Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of Co-Op City was 43,752, an increase of 3,076 (7.6%) from the 40,676 counted in 2000. Covering an area of Template:Convert, the neighborhood had a population density of Template:Convert.<ref name="PLP5">Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 Template:Webarchive, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.</ref> The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 8.5% (3,723) White, 60.5% (26,452) African American, 0.2% (108) Native American, 1.2% (522) Asian, 0.0% (7) Pacific Islander, 0.3% (125) from other races, and 1.6% (681) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 27.7% (12,134) of the population.<ref name="PLP3A">Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010 Template:Webarchive, Population Division - New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>
The entirety of Community District 10, which comprises City Island, Co-op City, Country Club, Pelham Bay, Schuylerville, Throgs Neck and Westchester Square, had 121,868 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 81.1 years.<ref name="CHP2018">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp This is about the same as the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<ref name=":21">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Rp<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Most inhabitants are youth and middle-aged adults: 20% are between the ages of between 0–17, 26% between 25–44, and 27% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 9% and 18% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
As of 2017, the median household income in Community District 10 was $59,522.<ref name="CB9PUMA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2018, an estimated 14% of Community District 10 residents lived in poverty, compared to 25% in all of the Bronx and 20% in all of New York City. One in eleven residents (9%) were unemployed, compared to 13% in the Bronx and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 45% in Community District 10, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 58% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, Template:As of, Community District 10 is considered high-income relative to the rest of the city and not gentrifying.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
Because of its large senior citizen block—well over 8,300 residents above the age of sixty as of 2007<ref>"Identifying Risks to Healthy Aging in New York City's Varied NORCs – NORC Program Characteristics, 2007" Template:Webarchive "Fredda Vladeck and Rebecca Segel, United Hospital Fund". Accessed August 14, 2013</ref>—it is considered the largest naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) in the nation and its Senior Services Program has extensive outreach to help its aging residents, most of whom moved in as workers and remained after retiring.<ref>"Haven for Workers in Bronx Evolves for Their Retirement" The New York Times. Accessed August 5, 2002</ref>
Co-op City was home to a large Jewish community during its early years, as well as Italian Americans and Irish Americans; many of them had relocated from other areas of the Bronx, such as the Grand Concourse. With African Americans making up a large minority, the community became known for its ethnic diversity. As early tenants grew older and moved away, the newer residents reflected the current population of the Bronx, with African American and Hispanic residents comprising the majority of residents by 1987.<ref>"Co-op City Sets New Goal: Attract More Whites" Template:Webarchive The New York Times. November 30, 1987.</ref> In the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the neighborhood received an influx of former Eastern Bloc émigrés, especially from Russia and Albania.<ref>"Urban Mass: A Look at Co-op City" Template:Webarchive The Cooperator: The Co-op & Condo Monthly. December 2006</ref>
Policing and crimeEdit
Community District 10 is patrolled by the 45th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 2877 Barkley Avenue in Throggs Neck.<ref name="NYPD 45th Precinct">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The 45th Precinct ranked 28th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:As of, with a non-fatal assault rate of 53 per 100,000 people, Community District 10's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 243 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
The 45th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 67% between 1990 and 2022. The precinct reported five murders, 13 rapes, 235 robberies, 265 felony assaults, 108 burglaries, 609 grand larcenies, and 323 grand larcenies auto in 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Public Safety DepartmentEdit
The Co-op City Department of Public Safety is a privately owned and operated police force that protects the residents, visitors and property of Co-op City only. The Co-op City Department of Public Safety currently employs more than 100 Public Safety officers and 10 civilian employees.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fire safetyEdit
Co-op City is served by the New York City Fire Department (FDNY)'s Engine Co. 66/Ladder Co. 61 fire station at 21 Asch Loop.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite FDNY locations</ref>
HealthEdit
Template:As of, preterm births are more common in Community District 10 than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common. In Community District 10, there were 110 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 10.3 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Community District 10 has a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 7%, lower than the citywide rate of 14%, though this was based on a small sample size.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in Community District 10 is Template:Convert, the same as the city average.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Fourteen percent of Community District 10 residents are smokers, which is the same as the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In Community District 10, 24% of residents are obese, 13% are diabetic, and 37% have high blood pressure—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp In addition, 25% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
Eighty-seven percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is the same as the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 77% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", about the same as the city's average of 78%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp For every supermarket in Community District 10, there are 7 bodegas.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
The nearest large hospitals are Calvary Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center's Jack D. Weiler Hospital, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi in Morris Park. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine campus is also located in Morris Park.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Post offices and ZIP CodeEdit
Co-op City is located within ZIP Code 10475.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The United States Postal Service operates three post offices in Co-op City:
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- Dreiser Loop Station – 179 Dreiser Loop<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Einstein Station – 127 Einstein Loop<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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ParksEdit
The largest open space in Co-op City itself is the Greenway, which is located in the superblock connecting all of the buildings.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The majority of Co-op City was built atop Rattlesnake Creek, a small stream that emptied into the Hutchinson River to the east. A small nature preserve called the Givans Creek Woods is located at the northern portion of Co-op City, near the intersection of Baychester Avenue and Co-op City Boulevard.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Despite its name, which is derived from Scottish immigrant Robert Givan, it is located above Rattlesnake Creek.<ref name="Kadinsky2016">Template:Cite Hidden Waters NYC</ref>
Co-op City Field, located on the waterfront of Hutchinson River at Co-op City Boulevard north of Bellamy Loop North, contains two baseball fields.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Directly to the south is a proposed Template:Convert waterfront park, which was announced in 2017<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and is still in the planning stages.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
EducationEdit
Community District 10 generally has a lower rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city Template:As of. While 34% of residents age 25 and older have a college education or higher, 16% have less than a high school education and 50% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 26% of Bronx residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp The percentage of Community District 10 students excelling in math rose from 29% in 2000 to 47% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 33% to 35% during the same time period.<ref name=":17">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Community District 10's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is slightly higher than the rest of New York City. In Community District 10, 21% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, a little more than the citywide average of 20%.<ref name=":21" />Template:Rp<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp Additionally, 75% of high school students in Community District 10 graduate on time, the same as the citywide average of 75%.<ref name="CHP2018" />Template:Rp
SchoolsEdit
The New York City Department of Education operates the following public schools in Co-op City:<ref name="Zillow">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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- PS 178 Dr Selman Waksman (grades K–5)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- MS 180 Dr Daniel Hale Williams (grades 6–8)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- IS 181 Pablo Casals (grades 6–8)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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LibraryEdit
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The New York Public Library (NYPL)'s Baychester branch is located at 2049 Asch Loop North. The one-story branch building opened in 1973 and was renovated in 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
TransportationEdit
Co-op City is served by several MTA Regional Bus Operations routes. (Note that sections 1-2-3-4-5 corresponds to Dreiser, Carver, Bellamy, Asch, and Einstein Loops, respectively; buses pull into Asch and Dreiser Loops directly.)<ref name=busbx>Template:Cite NYC bus map</ref>
- Bx5: to Bay Plaza Shopping Center or Simpson Street station (Template:NYCS trains) (via Crosby Avenue, Bruckner Boulevard, and Story Avenue; serves Bay Plaza weekends only)
- Bx12: to Bay Plaza Shopping Center to University Heights (via Fordham Road and Pelham Parkway)
- Bx12 SBS: to Bay Plaza Shopping Center or Inwood–207th Street station (Template:NYCS trains) (via Fordham Road and Pelham Parkway)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Pelham Bay Park station (Template:NYCS trains) (loop via sections 1-2-3-4-5)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Bay Plaza Shopping Center or Bedford Park (via sections 4-5, Allerton Avenue)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Earhart Lane or Bedford Park (via sections 1-2-3, Allerton Avenue)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Earhart Lane or Fordham Center (via sections 1-2-3, Gun Hill Road)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Earhart Lane or Pelham Parkway station (Template:NYCS trains) (via sections 2-1-4-5, Boston Road)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Bay Plaza Shopping Center or Norwood–205th Street station (Template:NYCS trains) (via sections 4-5, Gun Hill Road)
- Template:NYC bus link: to Earhart Lane or Flushing–Main Street station (Template:NYCS trains) (via sections 2-3-5, Bronx–Whitestone Bridge; serves Co-op City rush hours only)
- Template:NYC bus link: express to Dreiser Loop or Midtown Manhattan (via sections 1-2-3-4-5, Bruckner Expressway, Fifth Avenue/Madison Avenue)
Currently, there are no subway or Metro-North commuter rail stations in Co-op City (a plan to extend the IRT Pelham Line to Co-op City as part of the 1968 Program for Action ran out of money<ref>Template:Cite Routes Not Taken</ref>). However, as part of the Penn Station Access project to extend Metro-North service to Pennsylvania Station, the MTA plans to build the Co-op City station, an idea that has been proposed since the 1970s.<ref>Penn Station Access Project Overview Template:Webarchive, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, December 12, 2016. Accessed October 9, 2017.</ref>
Notable residentsEdit
- Brian Ash (born 1974), screenwriter/producer (resided in Co-op City from 1974 to 1993)Template:Citation needed
- Jamaal Bailey, politician<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Earl Battey (1935–2003), former baseball player with the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators (later renamed the Minnesota Twins).<ref>Peterson, Armand. "Stan Jefferson" Template:Webarchive, Society for American Baseball Research. Accessed September 28, 2017. "Jefferson's baseball exploits attracted the attention of Earl Battey, the four-time All-Star catcher with the Minnesota Twins in the 1960s. Battey was also a resident of Co-op City and since 1968 had been running the Con Ed Answer Man community relations program for Consolidated Edison of New York."</ref>
- David Berkowitz (born 1953), "Son of Sam" Killer (resided in Co-op City from 1968 to 1971)<ref name="auto">Case File: David Berkowitz Template:Webarchive Retrieved June 17, 2009</ref>
- Big Tigger (born 1972), radio and television personality<ref name="auto1">Radar: Big Tigger Template:Webarchive, SixShot.Com, date December 27, 2007, Retrieved June 17, 2009</ref>
- Kurtis Blow (born 1959), old school hip hop pioneer (resided in the Broun Place Townhouses during the mid-1980s)<ref name="On Da Come Up with Clap Cognac">On Da Come Up with Clap Cognac Template:Webarchive, HipHopRuckus.com, date February 24, 2009. Retrieved June 13, 2009</ref>
- Chris Canty (born 1982), professional football player for the New York Giants<ref>Super Bowl champs preach importance of education at charter school Template:Webarchive from News 12 Networks, January 29, 2019. Accessed January 29, 2019</ref>
- Eddie Carmel (1936–1972), entertainer, known as "The Jewish Giant", his claimed height of 9 feet made him an instant celebrity with traveling circuses. At the time of his death in 1972, he resided with his parents at 100 Elgar Place.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Christopher Scott Cherot (born 1967), screenwriter/director (resided in Co-op City from 1970 to 1981)<ref name="auto2">"An Interview With Filmmaker Christopher Scott Cherot" Template:Webarchive from The New Times Holler, April 7, 2008. Accessed June 13, 2009</ref>
- Cormega (born 1970), rapper<ref>Golianopoulos, Thomas. "The Bridge Is Over; The Queensbridge Houses were once at the center of the rap universe. What happened to hip-hop's most storied housing project? " Template:Webarchive, Complex, November 25, 2014. Accessed July 16, 2017. "Born Cory McKay in Brooklyn, Cormega moved at an early age from Bedford-Stuyvesant to Co-Op City in the Bronx where he lived on a 22nd floor apartment with a balcony."</ref>
- Eliot Engel (born 1947), United States Congressman who represented Template:Ushr.<ref name="auto3">Stanley, Alessandra. "Out of Cell (and Sickbed), Biaggi Tries Anew" Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, September 12, 1992. Accessed July 16, 2017. "Mr. Engel, 45, a former teacher and State Assemblyman who grew up in Co-op City, where he still lives, is so subdued and unflamboyant that on Capitol Hill, where he serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee, he is sometimes mistaken for a Congressional aide."</ref>
- Frank Andre Guridy (born 1971), historian, author, and Professor of History at Columbia University.<ref>Harris, Frederick. "Professor of History & AAADS Frank Guridy – DT6" Template:Webarchive, The Dean's Table. Accessed July 12, 2022. "Fredrick Harris: And where? Where did you grow up? Frank Guridy: Co-op City."</ref>
- Stan Jefferson (born 1962), professional baseball outfielder from 1983 to 1991.<ref>Coffey, Wayne. Former Met Stanley Jefferson struggles to cope with horror of life as 9/11 cop" Template:Webarchive, New York Daily News, March 9, 2007. Accessed June 18, 2007.</ref>
- Queen Latifah (born 1970), actress and rapper (resided in Co-op City from 1980 to 1984)<ref name="On Da Come Up with Clap Cognac"/>
- Miles Marshall Lewis (born 1970), African-American author (resided in Co-op City from 1974 to 1996)<ref name="auto5">Akashic Books: Miles Marshall Lewis Template:Webarchive, from www.akashicbooks.com</ref>
- Tamika Mallory (born 1980), activist<ref>Barker, Cyril Josh. "Tamika Mallory: The beauty of activism" Template:Webarchive,New York Amsterdam News, October 24, 2013. Accessed July 12, 2022. "Born and raised in Manhattanville Houses in Harlem, her family moved to Co-Op City in the Bronx when she was 14."</ref>
- Melina Matsoukas (born 1981), music video, film, commercial, and television director.<ref>Smith, Danyel. "Her Own Space Melina Matsoukas — Grammy-winning director for Beyoncé and Rihanna — makes her Hollywood feature debut with the kind of story Hollywood has overlooked." Template:Webarchive, California magazine, November 18, 2019. Accessed July 12, 2022. "Young Matsoukas lived in the Bronx’s 4,000-apartment Co-op City, a middle-income housing development, with her mother, an Afro-Cuban and Jamaican math teacher, and her father, a Greek and Jewish construction worker (her grandmother lives in the complex to this day)."</ref>
- Mwalim (born 1968), performing artist, writer, and professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Sean Nelson (born 1980), actor
- Jourdana Phillips (born 1990), model.Template:Citation needed
- Richard Price (born 1949), novelist and screenwriter.<ref name="auto6">Vanderbilt, Tom. "City Lore; Stagecoach Wreck Injures 10 in Bronx" Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, September 1, 2002. Accessed September 28, 2017. "After a few years, the world's largest theme park, and New York's last, gave way to the world's largest housing development, Co-op City. Mr. Price, who joined the electrical workers' union, helped build it.... A year later, Mr. Price got an apartment in Co-op City: I wound up living in Freedomland, so to speak."</ref>
- Sally Regenhard (born 1946), mother of firefighter Christian Regenhard, and activist for families of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.<ref>Gest, Emily. "9/11 SURVIVORS FEEL DUTY TO KIN Mission of remembrance a cornerstone of their lives" Template:Webarchive, New York Daily News, August 5, 2002. Accessed June 6, 2016. "ally Regenhard, of Co-op City in the Bronx, who lost her son Christian, a firefighter, has quit her two jobs at nursing homes to devote herself full-time to her passion - improving skyscraper safety."</ref>
- Christopher Rose (born 1957), professor of engineering and associate dean of faculty at Brown University<ref name=BAM2009/>
- Tricia Rose (born 1962), academic, scholar of hip hop; Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University<ref name=BAM2009>Schwartzapfel, Beth. "It’s All About Love" Template:Webarchive, Brown Alumni Magazine, July 22, 2009. Accessed July 12, 2022. "If you think scholarly research and hip-hop music don't go together, you don't know Tricia Rose '87 AM, '93 PhD.... In 1970, when Rose was nine, the family moved to Co-op City, a brand-new housing development in the northeast Bronx. Her brother Chris, five years her senior, remembers the move as 'a revelation.'"</ref>
- Larry Seabrook (born 1951), former New York City Councilman<ref name="auto7">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court<ref name="auto8">My Beloved World, 2013 Knopf, Chapter 11</ref><ref>Sonia Sotomayor: At Last a Bronx Candidate! Template:Webarchive Concurring Opinions, date May 2009. Accessed June 17, 2009.</ref>
- Rod Strickland (born 1966), former NBA basketball player<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Ron Suno (born 2000), rapper.<ref>"Get To Know Ron Suno and his latest project Swag Like Mike" Template:Webarchive, Kazi, June 19, 2020. Accessed July 12, 2022. "Born Keron Foriest in Co-op City, a cooperative housing development in the northeast section of the Bronx, Suno emerged last fall on the New York drill scene, when he dropped his first hit, 'Pinnochio.'"</ref>
- Kenneth P. Thompson (1966–2016), former District Attorney for Kings County<ref>Feuer, Alan. "For Brooklyn's District Attorney, Year One Is a Trial by Fire" Template:Webarchive, The New York Times, March 13, 2015. Accessed September 28, 2017. "He also noted that although he was raised in the Robert Wagner Houses, his mother, Clara, eventually moved the family to Co-op City in the Bronx, where they did not live in Section 5 — 'where the black folk live,' he said — but in Section 2, where he spent his teenage years as a bookworm and a paperboy for his neighbors, most of whom were Jewish."</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Community Home Entertainment
- Cooperative Village
- LeFrak City
- Mitchell-Lama Housing Program
- Park La Brea, Los Angeles
- Parkchester, Bronx
- Parkfairfax, Virginia
- Parkmerced, San Francisco
- Penn South
- Riverton Houses
- Rochdale Village, Queens
- Starrett City, Brooklyn
- Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village