Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Novo Foundation Supports Transformation of Former NYC Prison Into 'Women's Building'
Finding affordable real estate in New York City can take forever. Just ask Gloria Steinem and other feminist activists who searched for decades before finding a building to house women's groups.
"We've been looking for a women's building and hoping to find one for 40 years," said Steinem, who co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972. "There was just nothing. New York is so expensive."
Finally, renovation is about to begin to transform a former women's prison in New York City into the Women's Building, to offer women-focused groups everything from offices and shared meeting space to on-site child care and a rooftop garden...