Glenn Beck blasts Bronx, compares Co-Op City to failed socialist state

"Once you say there's a place where everyone's life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these beautiful complexes," the Fox News broadcaster told viewers of "The Glenn Beck Show" on Tuesday.

An image of Co-Op City then flitted across Beck's monitor.

"Do you want to live there? This is Co-Op City. Oh man! This is so beautiful," Beck said sarcastically. "That's the Great Society for you, and those are the lush [buildings]."

In 1955, New York lawmakers passed Mitchell-Lama legislation offering developers tax breaks for building apartments to be sold to working-class people at below-market rates.

The law helped build the massive "city within a city" of 35 high-rises and several townhouses.