NEW YORK (WCBS 880) – Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Brooklyn on Saturday to encourage senior New York City Housing Authority residents to get the COVID vaccine as part of a statewide effort.
The state looks to vaccinate 1,000 NYCHA residents across four of its 33 senior housing developments on Saturday.
"We're going to do every NYCHA senior development in the city of New York," Cuomo said. "All 33 will have access. We will get the access. Our bigger problem is the acceptance."
Vaccines were also deployed to eight church-based sites across the state, including in Brooklyn and the Bronx, as part of the effort. The initiative is expected to provide first doses of the vaccine to an additional 3,000 seniors and eligible New Yorkers statewide by Tuesday.
“We bring the vaccine to the people,” Cuomo said. “We don’t say you have to schedule an appointment, go into the Javits Center or somewhere else. It’s here. So that’s why I’m stressing come and get your vaccine. It’s the acceptance of the vaccine. We’re bringing the vaccine to the community, in this case to the residents in this building.”
The governor was at the William Reid Apartments in Crown Heights, where all of its about 250 qualified residents will get the vaccine even after the state exhausted its Week 5 vaccine supply.
“We are now starting to receive Week 6 allocations, which trickle in during the week,” Cuomo said. “They’re sent by Washington. They’re delivered by Washington to individual locations. We’re now starting to get some of the Week 6 allocation, and that’s what we’re using today.”
The state is working with local governments to ensure that there isn’t an overlap with city-run and state-run senior NYCHA vaccine sites.
The four NYCHA sites established Saturday in partnership with SOMOS Community Care are:
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