‘A very exclusive experiment in communism’: the radical origins of the Manhattan co-op

Urban History ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jack T. Masterson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Domestic Labour ◽  
Charles Fourier ◽  
New Harmony

Abstract Though it has long been the residence of choice for Manhattan's rich, the co-operative apartment building has an intellectual lineage that originates in pre-Marxian communitarian socialism. In the early nineteenth century, radical philosophers Charles Fourier and Robert Owen first theorized a multifamily dwelling owned in joint stock by its residents that could deliver economies of scale in the production and delivery of household necessities. Using previously untranslated French sources and archival material (New Harmony Working Men's Institute), this article demonstrates how early socialist ideas about housing, domestic labour and ownership evolved into the idea for the New York City co-operative apartment building.

A Tale of Two Cities I

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
African American ◽  
York City ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
English Speaking

The first of two companion chapters, this essay focuses especially on the historical meeting of European and African American movement vocabularies in English-speaking early-nineteenth-century contexts. It focuses particularly upon public music and dance in two creolized cities: Kingston, Jamaica, and New York City. Primary source evidence includes period illustrations (most notably, a ca. 1802 watercolor entitled A Grand Jamaica Ball) and period accounts of entertainments at lower Manhattan’s African Grove Theater; both are analyzed for the evidence they provide regarding the synthesis of creolized movement vocabularies and, by extension, cultural experiences. Methodology is drawn especially from iconography and kinesics.

scholarly journals Learning Local Immigration History In and Out of the Museum

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Stoddard ◽  
Alan Marcus ◽  
Kurt Squire ◽  
John Martin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
York City ◽  
Middle Grades ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Immigration History ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
The Us

In this article we utilize three case studies from the US as models for structuring historical inquiry in museum education programs focused on local immigration history. We focus on how models of practice from museums can be utilized as part of authentic history education pedagogy – in particular conducting historical inquiry with archival material and creating engaging exhibits. The three cases we draw from are the Tenement Museum (New York City), the Open House exhibit at the Minnesota History Center (St Paul, Minnesota), and a middle grades project in the Greenbush neighborhood (Madison, Wisconsin).

Decoding dimensions of the Dakota

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-80
Author(s):  
Sherri Farmer ◽  
Signe E. Kastberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Apartment Building ◽  
Teacher Reports

This part of the department showcases students' in-depth thinking and work on problems previously published in Teaching Children Mathematics. The September 2013 problem scenario highlights a sightseeing trip to New York City and the resulting mathematical wonderings about the historic Dakota apartment building. An Indiana teacher reports on how her fourth graders engaged with this investigation of differences and relationships between perimeter and area.

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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