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Leonard Kriegel reminisces about moving to a co-op in the 1960s, when When "urban renewal" was not yet a term of opprobrium. Most New Yorkers were less interested in what was being knocked down than in what was being built in its place.

The author describes his life -- from his early married years, through fatherhood, to grandfatherhood -- in a co-op apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City that was built in the early 1960s by the United Housing Federation & backed by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This New York urban junkie, as he calls himself, saw the co-op go from the urban equivalent of suburbia to an island surrounded by a violent neighborhood, & then to its place in a gentrified neighborhood where his ecologically attuned neighbors buy their groceries at Whole Foods, totally ignoring the picket lines advocating for unionization of the store. J. Stanton