Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: New York City Co-Housing

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 Sarah  (girlact [at] hotmail.com) wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone has any information on any co-housing groups
> that have existed or tried to exist in the New York City metropolitan
> area?

> Also what are the most urban co-housing communities?  Especially looking
> for ones that exist in one contained building.  Thanks for the help as
> my partner and I are interested in the concept in New York and I want to
> know about the feasibility, the groups already formed in the area and
> the communities that have made a go of it in tight inflated urban
> settings.

Search the old cohousing-L (via link at bottom of every message). It seems
like NYC comes up from time to time.  In particular (2/6/06),
http://lists.cohousing.org/pipermail/cohousing-l/msg22873.html

> Larry, who lived at Ganas years ago, is revitalizing the IC meet-up
> group in NYC.It was limping along for a year until the first convenor,
> Susan, decided to let go.  We'll see what happens.  If you know anyone
> in the NYC area interested in coho or community in general, please
> tell them about this group.  It's free to sign up.  Go to:
>
> http://intentionalcomm.meetup.com/55/

My page http://mn.cohousing.org/urban may be of interest.  One big
building cohousing is unusual in the US but exists.  See BO-90 (Denmark)
and Fardknappen (Sweden) , their sites are not in English but have
pictures.  (Search for them in Cohousing-L, I've written about them.)

Fred

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