New York State Worker Ownership

• CHCA – About 
• Gusoff et al – Centering marginalized care: Home care cooperatives and system change (2025)
• Pinto – Case Studies of Worker Cooperatives in Health: Cooperative Home Care Associates (2022)
• Start.coop – Cooperative Home Care Associates (2022) video

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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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Closed in 2021

• 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)

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• Samamkāya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective – About 
• GEO – Samamkaya Yoga Back Care and Scoliosis Collective (2020)
• CEANYC – Samamkaya (2018)
• City Meetings – Testimony by Catherine Murcek, Worker Owner at Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective (2025)

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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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• Start.coop – The Drivers Cooperative (2022)
• The Workers Lab – Innovator Update: The Drivers Cooperative (2024)
• Documented NYC –  The Rise and Fall of NYC’s Driver-Owned Ride-Share (2024)
• Next City – New York’s Driver-Owned Ride-Hailing App Is Putting Its Foot On The Accelerator (2023)

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• Ecomundo Cleaning
• NMIC – We are putting power back into collective community hands (2016)
• Manhattan Times – Winning for workers (2015)
• ILO – New York City Domestic Worker Cooperatives (2015)

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• Fund for Jobs Worth Owning – APartnership 
• ICA Group – The Beginning of a New Era: APartnership’s Transition to Employee Ownership (2024) video

• 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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• Prism – How a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy (2022)
• Rutgers – Alliance Collective: Case Studies of Worker Cooperatives in Health (2022)

• 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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• NYRA – New York Review of Architecture is a worker cooperative (2024)