Steinem's Brownstone to Serve as Feminist Organizing Hub

Gloria Steinem's longtime Manhattan home won't go quiet after her death at age 92. The East 73rd Street brownstone where the feminist icon lived, worked, and hosted the "talking circles" that helped shape modern feminism will remain a hub for organizing and activism, her foundation says, per the New York Times. Steinem gradually bought three floors of the five-story building after moving in as a renter in 1967, turning it into a packed, book-lined space that drew figures include novelist Alice Walker, activist Tarana Burke, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Jill Heller of Gloria's Foundation says the group will preserve the space as a permanent venue for activism, in line with Steinem's wishes. The rooms where Ms. magazine was born and women once traded stories of discrimination and loss are now set to keep incubating social movements long after their host is gone. A spokesperson for the foundation cited a quote from Steinem in her upcoming book, An Unexpected Life, per Curbed: "I have now lived for more than 50 years in this brownstone, in rooms that have witnessed lives before mine, and will know others after I am gone." Architectural Digest has photos from inside the home.