innish immigration to the U.S. hit a peak between 1910 and 1925, forming a strong community within the wider Scandinavian matrix of Sunset Park, near port and dock areas of Brooklyn. This "Finntown" grew around the 8th Avenue Alku and Alku Toinen, two co-ops built by Finnish socialists in 1916. Known as the first non-profit housing cooperatives in the U.S., these experiments inspired dozens of other (Finnish and non-Finnish) cooperative houses, restaurants, stores, and garages around Sunset Park. By the 1970s, most Sunset Park Finns had moved out to Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut, but a Finnish church remains in Greenwich Village, and there are scattered speakers throughout the New York area. In the early 20th century, another major community, now gone, was in Harlem, concentrated east of Lenox Avenue in the 120s.