2025 Next City Power & Place Film Series

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Expired December 15, 2025 4:45 AM
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A trailblazing housing organizer and her diverse working class neighbors fight Robert Moses, the real estate industry and five mayors to create the first Community Land Trust in New York City - an oasis of permanent low-income housing in the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side.


  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    83 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
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  • Director
    Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, Ryan Joseph
  • Cast
    Frances Goldin
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