Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Brooklyn Cohousing

[Katie Henry (katie-henry]

I too was very sad to hear about the disbanding of Brooklyn Cohousing. I 
attended some of their meetings. It was a very impressive group.

Raines, you mentioned the nasty comments in the NY Times article. There's a 
well-known commune named Ganas in Staten Island that lives up to everyone's 
notions about communes, including a charismatic founder/leader, a shared 
ideology, shared income, all shared meals, extensive partner-swapping, etc. It 
got a lot of coverage a few years ago when a resident who was asked to leave 
stalked one of the founding members for several years and eventually shot and 
nearly killed him. When I mention cohousing in New Jersey, people often say 
"Oh, 
you mean like that place in Staten Island?" Well, no, I have to explain, it's 
NOTHING like that place in Staten Island!

Katie Henry
Maplewood, NJ