Diane Patrick

Those comments...

are exactly why Co-op City is the best kept secret, because it's like hiding in plain sight.

You look at the exterior, you make your judgment, and you just keep moving, and you don't give it another thought.

I think I paid $2,500 for the apartment.

Yes.

We can do things inside our unit, whatever we want.

We do our own painting and flooring and whatever improvements we want to do.

It's gorgeous.

I think it's like 850 square feet.

It's large and it's beautiful.

And it's large and it's beautiful.

I saw what people were paying for tiny, teeny, teeny little apartments in Manhattan.

You know, you'd have to have a big pile of money.

Endless money because they're not made for people who are just ordinary people.

For a long while, I was the laughingstock in the organization when I spoke about building cooperative housing.

All my close friends used to make fun of me.

If we don't clean out these slums...

The central areas are going to rock.

There are very few cases where genuine slums can be fixed up in any other way than by tearing them down.

Same thing, man.