Chris McKeen/Stuff Art space Studio One Toi Tū has taken over what used to be the Newton police station. The crossroads is just past Studio One Toi Tū, the old Newton Police Station – another spot where Māori and Pasifika men used to be rounded up at closing time, Strickson-Pua says. It shut its doors as a cop shop in 1969, reopening as an arts centre a decade later. The reverend would be there every Tuesday in his days as a youth worker with the King Cobras. Then a block further down, Western Park, where Ponsonby workers on lunch breaks sprawl in the shade of sculptures offering commentary on the destruction of Auckland's architectural heritage.