Fulton Community Reentry Center

Bronx, NY

Designed to support the Osborne Association’s mission to replace punitive systems with community-generated solutions, the seven-story Fulton Community Reentry Center has been transformed into a community resource for the neighborhood, space for Bronx nonprofits, and a home for older justice-involved individuals with 140 transitional reentry beds and a holistic support structure.

C+GA’s sensitive restoration gives new life to this 1907 structure after multiple reincarnations—as a former church house, synagogue, nursing home, drug treatment facility, and minimum-security state prison. The new Center reflects the surrounding Claremont neighborhood, as well as Osborne’s vision of a welcoming facility that helps transform lives and communities, while promoting healing, equity, accountability, and justice. The transformed interiors utilize cool and neutral tones, wood and glass partitions to offer a sense of calm, opennes and welcome, with ample views onto Crotona Park.

Providing the building blocks for individual and community success, in addition to supportive housing the Center includes spaces to share meals, foster community, and hold classes, training sessions, support groups, events, and private meetings. At the significant onsite kitchen, Osborne’s Fresh Start culinary arts program will train and employ residents to prepare meals for their fellows and commercial clients. The ground floor central space serves as a gathering, dining and event hub for residents and the community, with a café whose sliding wall opens it up to the light-filled lobby.

• Size: 63,000 SF
• Client: The Osborne Association
• Photographer: Inessa Binenbaum