Free at-home kits are available all across NYC.

To find distribution sites near you,
visit nyc.gov/covidtest or call 311

George Bruce Library
Harlem Library
Hamilton Grange Library
Countee Cullen Library
Washington Heights Library
El Museo del Barrio

Harlem Covid Test, Vaccination & Home Kit Locations

George Bruce Library
518 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027
Dates: April 4 - 8
Monday - Friday, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tests can be used on people 2 years and older.

Harlem Library
9 West 124th Street
New York, NY 10031
Dates: April 4 - 8
Monday - Friday, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Hamilton Grange Library
503 West 145th Street
New York, NY 10031
Dates: April 4 - 8
Monday - Friday, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Countee Cullen Library
104 West 136th Street
New York, NY 10030
Dates: April 4 - 8
Monday - Friday, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Washington Heights Library
1000 St. Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032
Dates: April 4 - 8
Monday - Friday, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Tests can be used on people 2 years and older.

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Dates: April 8
Friday, 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM

 

Harlem Covid News 2022

New Yorkers will be able to pick up Binax rapid COVID-19 tests at the following sites beginning at 9 a.m., de Blasio announced on Twitter: 

  • The State Office Building at 125th St and Adam Clayton Powell (New Testing Site)

  • The corner of West 125th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem (Home Test Kits)

Each site will hand out 2,000 kits, the mayor noted. The city is also handing out free at-home test kits at its COVID-19 testing sites.

The push to distribute test kits accompanies the opening of several new testing sites across the five boroughs. The city started handing out free kits at several new sites on Thursday.

Many New Yorkers have been unable to find at-home COVID-19 test kits in stores. Chains including Walgreens and CVS earlier this week limited the number of test kits customers are allowed to purchase at once, citing dwindling supplies and high demand.

New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Dave Chokshi on Thursday said New Yorkers should take the city's evolving COVID-19 response into account as the omicron variant spreads.

Appearing on "Mornings On 1," Chokshi said the city will be receiving more self-test kits to distribute around the city. But while the at-home kits will help alleviate the long lines for a COVID-19 test, he said there is a trade-off.

"They don't show up in our surveillance data in the same way a PCR or other lab-based test does," Chokshi said. "So there is that downside. But overall as the health commissioner, I would say the public health benefit of widespread availability to testing and being able to do that as rapidly as possible, the benefits outweigh any downsides."

Chokshi is staying on as health commissioner until mid-March under Mayor-elect Eric Adams. He said he was honored to see the city through this latest COVID-19 wave. Dr. Ashwin Vasan will take over after that. 

Harlem's rates of COVID-19 have jumped to their highest levels in months. Here's how to get tested in the neighborhood this week.

HARLEM, NY — The surge in COVID-19 that is gripping New York City has not spared Harlem, where positive cases have jumped in recent days to their highest level in months, according to city-data.

In all of Harlem's eight ZIP codes, the percentage of residents who tested positive during the week that ended Friday was above 6 percent — the highest figure since at least early September, and likely earlier than that.

A total of 1,292 Harlemites tested positive during that recent week, as the state broke its all-time case record three days in a row. (Though testing was limited during the pandemic's early days.)

 

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CityMD West Harlem
Urgent Care 

Location: 356 W 125th St, New York, NY 10027
Phone: (646) 647-1267
Hours: 8AM - 7:30PM

 

Harlem Hospital

Location: 506 Lenox Ave., at West 136th Street.

Phone: 212-423-6262

Hours Open: Mon.-Sun. from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Central Harlem COVID-19 express site:
Central Harlem Center, 2238 Fifth Ave. between west 136th and 137th streets. (By appointment only.)

Mobile testing

These mobile testing sites 
are up and running:

Gotham Health – Sydenham: 264 West 118th St., btw Frederick Douglass Boulevard and St. Nicholas Avenue.
Open: Mon.-Sun. from 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

NYCHA Manhattanville: parking lot at 549 West 126th St., just east of Broadway.
Open: Monday-Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

And these saliva-based self-test sites are open in Harlem this week:

MetroPlus Community Office: 2104 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard, at West 132nd Street
Open: Wednesday only, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement
203 West 146th St., between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard.
Open: Monday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

263 West 153rd St., between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macombs Place
Open: Thursday only, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

 

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Manhattan

Gotham Health - Sydenham
(Rapid antigen testing available)
264 W. 118th Street
New York, NY 10026
Dates: December 20 - 26
Monday - Sunday, 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. (Dinkins)
(Saliva self-testing site)
263 W. 153rd Street, community space
New York, NY 10039
Dates: December 23
Thursday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc. (Petioni)
(Saliva self-testing site)
203 W. 146th Street
New York, NY 10039
Dates: December 20, 23
Monday, Thursday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Highbridge Park Rec Center
(Rapid antigen testing available)
2301 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10033
Dates: December 21 - 23
Tuesday - Thursday, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Assembly Member Carmen De La Rosa's District Office
(Saliva self-testing site)
210 Sherman Avenue
New York, NY 10034
Dates: December 20 - 22
Monday - Wednesday, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Masaryk Towers
(Rapid antigen testing available)
75 Columbia Street
New York, NY 10002
Monday, Wednesday - Sunday, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM

The New School
(Rapid antigen testing available)
1 E. 13th Street (just east of 5th Avenue)
New York, NY 10003
Dates: December 20 - 21
Monday - Tuesday, 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

NYCHA/Manhattanville
(Rapid antigen testing available)
549 W. 126th Street (parking lot)
New York, NY 10027
Dates: December 20 - 26
Monday - Sunday, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Quisqueya Playground
(Rapid antigen testing available)
2405 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10033
Dates: December 20 - 26
Monday - Sunday, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Compton Eye Associates
(Saliva self-testing site)
4738 Broadway
New York, NY 10040
Dates: Deecmber 21
Tuesday, 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM