Archive Resources
Related Archives
The Kheel Center at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, is the home for the ILGWU archives with a wealth of information about the union and the founding of Penn South.
NYU’s Tamiment Library has a Labor History collection well worth taking a look at.
The Skyscraper Museum has a great resource on Housing Density: From Tenements to Towers.
Books & Papers
Cole Cahill used the archive’s oral histories to create his award winning senior thesis at Columbia University (2023) The Limits of Cooperation
Press
In These Times, How Unions Can Solve the Housing Crisis, Eric Forman, October 2018
Chelsea Living, What Does it Mean When Big, New Housing Developments Come Into This Neighborhood?, Wyatt Frank
Films
A Church in Chelsea by Tassos Rigopoulos The little-known story of St. Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church founded in 1918 in Chelsea, New York City, as told by its priest and some of its longstanding parishioners.
At Home in Utopia (2009) by Michal Goldman. An award winning documentary about ‘The Coops’ in the Bronx.
Penn South Recycles (2008) homemade guide to recycling at Penn South.
The Modernization of the Historic Penn South Housing Complex (2014) Steamfitters union on the modernization of Penn South infrastructure.
More resources coming soon!