CO-OP CITY

CO-OP CITY (SHORT FOR COOPERATIVE CITY) is a predominantly lower- to middle-class community made up entirely of a 320-acre cooperative building complex. It has over 15,000 apartments, thirty-five high-rise structures ranging in height from twenty-four to thirty-three floors, plus 236 townhouses, and about 35,000 residents. When it opened in 1968, it was the largest co-op housing development in the country. There are five sections, set apart by the fact that their streets all begin with the same letters, from A to E. Four of the sections are on one side of the Hutchinson River Parkway, with the fifth close by