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:

... some more info ...

• international herald tribune am 01.08.07 [en]
  "In Berlin, a squatters' utopia collapsing under a city's ambitions"
• Logbook # 2 by Mobile Global Station Against G8 [31.05.07 --- en]
  "Analyses, Impressions, Voices: a journey through Germany rebelling against G8"
  
• indymedia am 09.06.2005 [en]
  "Berlin: Yorckstr.59 evicted" [pay attention to the updates in the commentary sections...]

Information about how to get to the New Yorck can be found here:

http://yorck.plentyfact.net/node/38