Sunrise on Sunset Park

This book tells how a group of immigrants from Finland founded the fi rst
co-ops in our nation focusing on one in a group of associations that are
organized around Sunset Park, a New York City public park with an outlook
over the harbor that is located on the highest hill of this neighborhood from
the perspective of a Swedish-American fi rst generation person accepted by
the Finns. This is an inside look into how one co-op has functioned adapting
with the growth of Brooklyn and New York City. While it is tempting to
want to examine each of the co-ops and compare how they are similar
and differ from one another, it is more important to focus on how they
cooperated with each other to remain independent and are able to adapt
to changes. This book is organized into chapters that focus on different
aspects of co-op living and includes a Patriotic Tour at the end to help
the reader understand why it is important to be all-inclusive when writing
history and important also to put new residents in the very spots where
history happened, even if the original spot has been changed over time.