As a result, he developed the idea of a charitable trust to build a home for older individuals who had lost their fortunes, where they could live in their retirements.

[5][6] The Home was built as a four-story building in a French and Italian Renaissance style with soft gray and yellow limestone.

[9] On April 4, 2012 No Longer Empty opened "This Side of Paradise", an exhibition of artworks in various mediums including photography, video projections and installations.

[10] Since "This Side of Paradise", Andrew Freedman Home Director Walter Puryear has offered an Artist In Residency program.

Workshops are low-cost or free-of-charge and include art-making and music lessons, such as Afro-Puerto Rican drum classes offered by Jose "Dr.

[13] Current AFH | AIR resident artist and organizations include Renée Cox, En Foco, Jennie West and Meguru Yamaguchi.

Bronx Voyeurs featured works by artist Emory Douglas and others in a multichannel video installation in windows of the Home, curated by Walter Puryear[15] and designed by Benton C Bainbridge.

[16] Interactive exhibit Undesign the Redline examined the social effects of urban planning in a series of participatory displays.

[17] In Fall, 2017, a three-venue exhibition between Andrew Freedman Home, BronxArtSpace and Swing Space opened, featuring Incarcerated Nation, Noté Peter George, Solitary Watch, Hank Willis Thomas, Julia Justo, and dozens of other organizations and artists.

STATE PROPERTY is a multi-disciplinary examination of American consumerism of prison labor and our daily choices to purchase, condone or reject goods created in penitentiaries.