Rochdale Village

by Peter Eisenstadt

Book Overview

From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens, New York. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to create an integrated community in New York City or,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448786
• ISBN13: 9780801448782
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher