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The Women’s Building in the headlines
A Place for Women’s Activism
WNYC
The Women’s Building Block Party 2018
NY1 News
Block Party Celebrates Community, Anticipates The Women’s Building
Chelsea Now
Women In Prison Are Still Waiting For Their Me Too Moment
Huffington Post
A great job for New York’s women—and one they rarely get
Crain’s
Forced To Serve 10 Years In A Men’s Prison, A Trans Activist Demands Change
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Former Women’s Prison Transforming Into Space for Activism
Teen Vogue
Meet the female plumber who’s encouraging women to enter trades
The Today Show
Women Together Fight Together
Buzzfeed News
A Block Party Showcases Possibilities For Women After Incarceration
Pavement Pieces
10 Things To Do in Your Manhattan Neighborhood This Weekend
DNAinfo
The five best free things to do in NYC over the next seven days
TimeOut New York
Side Street Saturday: Blocks Worth Walking on Sept. 23
Chelsea Now
This Former Prison Will Soon Be a Hub for Women’s Rights Organizations
Self Video
Former Women’s Prison Becomes Feminist Community Space
The Laura Flanders Show
Bayview Series: Women Rising
The Culture Trip
Bayview Series: Women and The Prison System
The Culture Trip
This Building Was Once a Notorious Women’s Prison. Now It’s Becoming a Center for Feminist Organizing.
The Nation
A Women’s Prison in Chelsea Will Be Transformed
Village Voice
A Block Party for ‘The Women’s Building’
Voices of NY
Former Women’s Prison in Chelsea, Once Held Women Down, Being Repurposed to Lift Them Up
NY1
Governor Cuomo Announces State’s First “Women’s Building” to Unite More Than a Dozen Women-Focused Organizations to Empower Generations of Women to Come
NY Governor’s Office
Former Women’s Prison in Chelsea, Once Held Women Down, Being Repurposed to Lift Them Up
NY1
Ex-Inmates Helping to Transform Prison Into Building for Women and Girls
YOUTHtoday
Design Firm Chosen for Bayview’s Transformation
Chelsea Now
Deborah Berke to turn former New York prison into women’s rights headquarters
Dezeen Magazine
Deborah Berke Partners to Transform Retired New York Women’s Prison Into a Hub for Women’s Rights
Architect Magazine
A Chelsea Address Goes from Women’s Prison to Women’s Nonprofit
Commercial Observer
Women’s Building Envisioned as ‘Vertical Neighborhood’
Chelsea Now
Former Prison for Women to Become a Place That Serves Them
New York Times
What Happens When Old Prisons Are Given Back to Their Communities?
The Nation
Former Chelsea prison to be transformed into Women’s Building
Newsday
From a house of despair to a house of hope
New York Daily News
Inside A Notorious Women’s Prison Before Its Revolutionary Makeover
Huffington Post
Inside the abandoned New York prison that’s been taken over by activists
Fusion
Announcements
July 8, 2016
NoVo Foundation And Goren Group Announce Winning Architect For The Women’s Building
November 12, 2015
NoVo Foundation and Goren Group Announce The Women’s Building International Design Competition
October 26, 2015
NoVo Foundation, in collaboration with Goren Group, to transform former women’s prison into home for women’s rights movement