Bolstered by the success of the Amalgamated Cooperative in the Bronx, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America began working on a second limited-equity housing cooperative on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Like a breath of fresh air amid the dwelling of dark, congested tenements, Amalgamated Dwellings provided spacious apartments built around a central courtyard containing gardens and fountains.

Completed around 1930, Amalgamated Dwellings was the first of four housing cooperatives to be built along Grand Street, from Essex Street east to the FDR Drive. Collectively, the four cooperatives came to be called Cooperative Village. © Joel Raskin