Walk-Up COVID Vaccinations Will Open To 75+ NYers At 22 Sites

New York City NY

06 April, 2021

11:41 AM

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Update: Because of inaccurate information provided by the mayor's office, an earlier version of this story had an incomplete list of locations providing walk-in shots. This story has been updated with the complete list. NEW YORK CITY — New York City seniors soon will have more places to get a COVID-19 vaccine with less the wait. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday the city will expand a program that allows people 75 and up to walk-up to vaccination sites and get shots without appointments. The city will offer these walk-up shots at 26 sites starting this week, city officials said. "This is the group we need to reach the most," de Blasio said. "This is a tactic that we know is working." Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced the city will expand walk-up coronavirus vaccine access to seniors who are 75 and up. (NYC Mayor's Office) The city-run pilot initiative began at Citi Field in Queens, Brooklyn Army Terminal in Brooklyn and Bathgate Contract Postal Station in the Bronx. Those sites became the only places in the city where New Yorkers could officially walk up and get vaccine doses without an appointment. They aimed to get New Yorkers who are 75 and older vaccinated, but the sites also offered doses to eligible people who escorted the seniors into the locations. The expanded sites will offer shots to eligible escorts as well, a mayor's office spokesperson confirmed. The full list of sites are: Brooklyn Bushwick Educational CampusCanarsie HSBrooklyn Army Terminal Starrett City - Spring Creek Towers Teachers Prep Flatbush YMCACity Point Coney Island YMCA (opening Thursday) Bronx South Bronx Educational CampusBronx High School of ScienceCo-Op CityBathgateWest Bronx Gymnasium Queens Beach Channel Educational CampusLong Island CityKorean Community ServicesCitiFieldMartin Van Buren Highschool Staten Island Ocean Breeze Athletic Empire Outlets Manhattan Essex CrossingCity College Abyssinian Baptist ChurchFord Foundation (opening Wednesday)Yeshiva University (opening Wednesday)Fulton Community Center (opening Wednesday) De Blasio said the new sites will set aside doses and appointments for seniors, as well as conduct outreach in surrounding communities. More than 4.6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have went into arms in New York City so far, de Blasio said. That's more than the entire population of Kentucky, he said.