Welcome to the website for the Finnish Home Building Association, otherwise known by its Finnish name, Alku, which translates to “Beginning.”
Alku and Alku Toinen are apartment buildings built in 1916 by the Finnish American immigrant community in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Located at 816–826 43rd Street, they were the first nonprofit housing cooperatives in New York City.
See History of the Finnish Home Building Association (Alku and Alku Toinen) for more
Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the west. The neighborhood is named after a 24.5-acre public park of the same name, located between 41st and 44th Streets and Fifth and Seventh Avenues.
History of the Finnish Home Building Association (Alku and Alku Toinen)