On June 11th 2005, residents and collectives of the house project 'Yorck 59' squatted 2 floors of the southern wing of the Bethanien, this happening just 5 days after being evicted violently by more than 500 cops from the Yorck Street 59.
Since then, many new collectives and groups joined the project, in spite of repression and threats of eviction. One of them being the 'Initiative Zukunft Bethanien', which in June 2006 handed over more than 14.000 signatures to the district government - to call for an open cultural, artistic, political and social centre in the Bethanien and to prevent the buildings privatization.

A short overview about some of the collectives in the New Yorck:

ARI Documentation group | Initiative Zukunft Bethanien | B.O.N.E. | Carambolage | CIRCA (Rebel Clown Army) | DruzBar | IWPS | Kampagne gegen Zwangsumzüge | Mediaspree Versenken! | Mietshäusersyndikat Regionalgruppe Berlin | Nomadisches AntiKriegsCafé | Solidarité | Spreepirat_innen | The VOICE | Plataforma Berlin | Libertad Berlin | DruzBar | Kiezcafe | Glocal Office Gipfelsoli |  Anarchist Infocafe | ...

Previously there was senseless vacancy, while, today the southern wing of the building (now called 'NewYorck') stands for art, culture, infrastructure for left politics from below and much more!

New Yorck in Bethanien - living and working in self-determined and self-organized structures.