New York State is home to more than 100 worker cooperatives, more than any other state. See examples from New York City, the Hudson Valley, Buffalo, the Capital Region, the Finger Lakes, the North Country, the Catskills, the Berkshires, and Long Island.
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- Hell Gate – 2025 Annual Report
- Nieman Lab – Hell Gate saw a 69% increase in subscribers in its third year of covering New York City (2025)
- Labor Wise – The Worker-Owned Businesses Proving You Don’t Need Venture Capital (2025)
- New York Times – Tired of Waiting for Their Dream Workplace, These Writers Made Their Own (2022)
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- Ward Lumber – Our Cooperative
- NCPR – Employees officially take charge at North Country’s largest worker-owned co-operative (2021)
- Senator Gillibrand – Gillibrand Celebrates Ward Lumber’s Transition At ‘Board’ Cutting Ceremony (2021)
- ANCA – Ward Lumber Becomes Worker-owned Cooperative (2021) video
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- Defector – Reflections On Five Years In Worker-Owned Media (2025)
- Columbia Journalism Review – Tom Ley Thinks More People Should Experience Worker-Owned Journalism (2025)
- Reynolds Journalism Institute – At journalism co-operatives, worker-owners take news into their own hands (2025)
- Start.coop – Co-op Case Study: Defector Media (2022)
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- People’s Choice Communications – About
- Broadband Breakfast – NYC Worker-Owned ISP Faces Uncertain Future Amid Shifting City Broadband Policy (2025)
- Forbes – People’s Choice Offers Internet Cheaper Than Tapwater (2022)
- PBS – A cooperative effort to bridge the digital divide with low-cost WiFi (2021)
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- Translash – Joselyn Mendoza: Cooperative Economics in Queens and Brooklyn, New York (2025)
- Yes – This Trans-Owned Co-op Builds Community and Economic Stability (2020)
- Huffpost – This Trans-Owned Beauty Co-op Wants To Be A Safe Space For Latinx And LGBTQ Workers (2020)
- Wolfe – Situating Worker Cooperatives: The Urban, Racial and Gendered Geographies of Cooperative Development in New York City’s Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (2020)
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- Brooklyn Stone and Tile – Our History
- DAWI – Testimonial: Brooklyn Stone and Tile (2021) video
- NYC Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Council – “If I Ran This Place, Things Would Be Very Different”: Here’s What Happened When Staff Members Became Employee-Owners (2020)
- Business Insider – How Employees Became Owners of the Business They Work At (2020) video
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- Random Harvest – About us
- Berkshire Edge – BerkShares Business of the Month is Random Harvest (2022)
- Hill County Observer – A hub for food and community – Columbia County market blends co-op, consignment models (2021)
- Chronogram – Random Harvest Market in Craryville Gets New Life and A New Model (2019)
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- Fast Company – I’m a queer farmer. Here’s how I’m fighting back against Tractor Supply’s anti-DEI stance (2024)
- Marie Claire – The New Crop of Farmers (2024)
- The Guardian – Radishes and rainbows: the LGBTQ growers reimagining the traditional family farm (2023)
- Cornell Small Farms – Collectively Managing a Farm with Rock Steady (2023) video
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- NPQ – Evolving a Culture of Care: Lessons from Third Root Community Health Center (2022)
- Ramírez-Mallis – Third Root Community Health Center Worker Cooperative (Portraits of the Solidarity Economy) (2012) video
- Bklyner – The Ditmas Park Word: Angela Ueckerman On The Third Root Community Health Center, Why She Loves Raising Her Son Here & More (2015)
- Patch – Meet the Owner(s): Third Root Community Health Center (2012)
New York State Worker Ownership 