Two Dickinson Street Co-op, Student dining cooperative at Princeton University, New Jersey, United States.
Two Dickinson Street Co-op is a vegetarian student housing community near Princeton University's campus that serves dinners and weekend brunches to approximately 50 members. The cooperative occupies a residential building with shared kitchen, dining, and living spaces organized across multiple floors to support group meals and daily activities.
The cooperative was established in the late 1970s when students sought alternatives to university dining halls and wanted to create a vegetarian living community. It became Princeton's first residential cooperative focused on plant-based meals and collective self-governance from its founding.
Members participate in consensus decision-making and share responsibilities for cooking, cleaning, and maintaining the cooperative's daily operations.
New members pay a semester fee at the start of each term to cover meal and supply costs, and all residents take turns cooking, washing dishes, and cleaning shared spaces. Visitors should understand that this is a functioning residential community where participation in daily tasks is a requirement for membership.
Josue Lajeunesse, a former maintenance worker featured in the documentary 'The Philosopher Kings', initiated water access projects in Haiti while he was part of this community. His work demonstrates how living and working here influenced him to pursue meaningful projects beyond the residence.
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