Brooklyn Co-housing in the New York Post

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Codicts Team
  • December 8, 2009

New York Magazine profiled Brooklyn Co-housing, the first co-housing community in New York City, in an in-depth article recently.

This is a level of group interaction that the co-housers haven’t been able to find anywhere else in the city, and that they are betting other New Yorkers would enjoy, too. “There’s this thing called community” says one member, “and whatever it is, it turns out people are willing to sacrifice a lot for it.”
Read more: How a Group of People Is Building New York’s First Co-Housing Community — New York Magazine

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