Everything about Rochdale Queens totally explained
Rochdale (also called
Rochdale Village) is a 20-building, 5,860-apartment residential
cooperative built by architect
Herman Jessor, consisting of five circles of four buildings in the
South Jamaica neighborhood of the
New York City borough of
Queens. The
United States' second largest housing co-operative,
The architect's concept of Rochdale Village was an attractive community covering 122 blocks that would provide the residents with a park-like setting and facilities of suburbia, within the limits of the Urban Jamaica Area. Rochdale was designed to be a "city within a city". In addition to its thousands of apartment, it included a
power plant (providing electricity, heat and air-conditioning all included in the carrying charges), two
shopping malls, two
supermarkets, two
drug stores, and an assortment of others amenities. Also included were a community center,
post office,
public schools, a
public library branch, and a
New York Police Department precinct.
The property is the former site of
Jamaica Racetrack, which was operated by the Metropolitan Jockey Club and its successor, the Greater New York Association (now the
New York Racing Association.) When the NYRA decided to renovate Greater Jamaica's other track,
Aqueduct Racetrack (in
South Ozone Park), it also decided to close Jamaica Racetrack when the Aqueduct Racetrack's improvements were finished. Jamaica Racetrack was shut down in 1959 and demolished.
The problems began before Rochdale Village was completed: the construction company responsible for building Rochdale Village wouldn't hire
African American workers. Construction proceeded at a rapid pace on a new community in Queens. When Rochdale Village opened, it was the largest private cooperative housing complex in the world (later surpassed by
Co-op City in the Bronx), and was between 10 to 20 percent African American and 80 to 90 percent
white. As years passed, more and more African Americans moved to Rochdale. It was between the late 1960s and mid-1970s that most whites moved from the community.
Some of the major highways/transportation methods are the
Belt Parkway,
MTA New York City Transit buses and the
Long Island Rail Road, which stops right by the complex at the
Locust Manor station
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