 He had thousands of Hasidim around the world.Schick also established a Yeshiva "Tifereth Hatorah" in Williamsburg for Breslover students, Rabbi Yoel Roth leads his yeshiva

In April 2012, Schick suffered a heart attack and underwent surgery, from which he recovered.In 2015 he was treated for the final stages of leukemia at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where he died on February 6, 2015.