Skip to content
Bushwick Daily

News

Inside a Humanitarian Crisis Happening Right Off Myrtle/Broadway

Instead of a Blink Fitness, a local building in Bushwick has become a token in the city’s ongoing asylum crisis.

Asylum Crisis Stockton Street shelter

Inside a Humanitarian Crisis Happening Right Off Myrtle/Broadway

Instead of a Blink Fitness, a local building in Bushwick has become a token in the city’s ongoing asylum crisis.

Inside a Humanitarian Crisis Happening Right Off Myrtle/Broadway

For nearly two months, hundreds of asylum seeking men have been arriving in batches to a city-run “respite center” steps away from the Myrtle Broadway JMZ train station, where Bushwick meets Bed-Stuy. 

The shelter sits on Stockton Street, in a building that was once earmarked to become a Blink Fitness. Instead of a gym, however, it has become a token…

The rest of this story is for members.

Enter your email to continue.

Top image taken by Katey St John.

Thanks for being a member.

Read next

Food & Drink

Brooklyn’s political crowd has a favorite restaurant: Peaches in Bed-Stuy, 58 orders and $17,951 since July 2025

Eight campaigns paid Peaches and its sister restaurants $17,950.56 since July 2025, including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' and both in today's Bed-Stuy Assembly race.

Today’s governor vote decides whether the Working Families Party keeps the line 12 local candidates run on

News ·

Voters who used the Bushwick and Arlington libraries in June have new poll sites today

News ·

Election Day voter guide: every race, 5 charter questions and where to vote in North Brooklyn and Ridgewood

News ·

Advertise with Bushwick Daily

Reach North Brooklyn, and the New Yorkers who read it.

Written in Bushwick, read across the city since 2009.

129K site visitors a month 1–2M Instagram impressions a month 24K email list members
Advertise with us →
Become a member of Bushwick Daily