Instead of a Blink Fitness, a local building in Bushwick has become a token in the city’s ongoing asylum crisis.
The free store, a concept dreamt up by Bushwick Mutual Aid, is stocked with free clothes, baby supplies, furniture, household appliances and other donated goods.
Bushwick Abbey and Mayday Space are teaming up to combat food insecurity in the neighborhood.
‘The work is political, but we don’t want so much to get caught in a lot of the Brooklyn party politics’
A city-wide grassroots, volunteer effort called In It Together NYC, is tackling food insecurity to ensure New Yorkers don’t go hungry during COVID-19 pandemic.
