State-run COVID vaccination site to open on Staten Island on Wednesday to focus on grocery store, supermarket workers
Updated Apr 23, 2021;
Posted Apr 23, 2021
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a pop-up vaccination effort across the five boroughs that will focus on bodega, grocery store and supermarket workers. (AP Photo)Mary Altaffer | AP Photo
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. The state is opening pop-up coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination sites in all five boroughs within the next week with a focus on grocery store, supermarket and bodega workers.
Staten Island’s pop-up vaccination site will be located at Manor Superette, located at 927 Manor Rd., on Wednesday, April 28. The site will receive 400 doses including doses set aside for workers.
City lifts vaccine eligibility restrictions, walk-ups accepted at all city-run sites beginning Friday
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“Life in this city is coming back so we want to make it simple,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “Convenience matters to New Yorkers.”
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Any New Yorker seeking a vaccination can now do so without an appointment beginning Friday, April 23.
City residents aged 16 and older can get vaccinated at any site administering Pfizer and those aged 18 and older can get vaccinated at any site administering Moderna.
Staten Island’s city-run vaccination locations are:
Empire Outlets - 55 Richmond Terr., Pfizer
City Health+Hospitals Gotham Health/Vanderbilt - 165 Vanderbilt Ave., Moderna
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Travis couple shows up for vaccine appointments to an empty tent; city says sorry, appointments were overbooked
Updated Mar 10, 2021;
Posted Mar 10, 2021
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Like many Staten Island residents, it took Bill and Maria Castello three weeks to snag a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine appointment at the city Health + Hospitals Gotham Health/Vanderbilt clinic in Clifton.
The husband and wife were ecstatic Bill has an underlying heart condition, having previously survived a heart attack, and Maria is a therapist and treats patients in-person daily.
Their appointments were scheduled for Sunday at 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. “We don’t typically stay up that late, but we were happy to get an appointment,” the Travis residents told the Advance/SILive.com.
Empire Outlets mass vaccination site to open Thursday, will be for borough residents only
Updated Feb 18, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. After nearly a month delay, the mass vaccination site at Empire Outlets will open on Thursday, Feb. 18 but it will not open as a 24-hour a day facility.
“We want to focus on Staten Island, we want a major push,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said, adding the borough’s residents have been disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).
The site will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., seven days a week.
Appointments will be required for the site and can be made through the city’s vaccination website, however, as of Tuesday it has not been updated to reflect Empire Outlets opening on Thursday.