PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY WARNING!
Brooklyn, NY — The most common
method your doctor will recommend to
treat your neuropathy is with prescription
drugs that may temporarily reduce your
symptoms. These drugs have names such as
Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin,
and are primarily antidepressant or antiseizure
COURIER L 6 IFE, JANUARY 21-27, 2022
‘We needed this’
New COVID self-testing site at
former Century 21 in Bay Ridge
BY JESSICA PARKS
The shuttered fl agship location of
Bay Ridge-born department store Century
21 has been given temporary new
life as the sprawling building serves as
a city-operated COVID-19 self-testing
site, which opened Jan. 15.
“We needed this site and we needed it
badly,” said Bay Ridge Councilmember
Justin Brannan in a statement. “There
are many local pharmacies and drug
stores as well as mobile lab vans offering
testing. But the only sites within our
control are the ones run by NYC Health
and Hospitals. We are very lucky to have
a brick-and-mortar site in our community;
not every community does.”
Brannan and State Senator Andrew
Gounardes announced the opening of
the newest NYC Health and Hospitals
coronavirus testing site the day before
its opening, as long wait times continue
to plague the city’s free testing
sites due to the surge of the Omicron
variant. Over 280,000 Brooklynites got
tested for COVID in the span of just
seven days last month — many of them
stuck waiting days longer than anticipated
for their results to come back.
“With the surge in Omicron cases
across our city, it’s crucial that everyone
get tested regularly. We’ve seen
people have to wait for hours to get free
testing, causing stress and anxiety for
our neighbors,” said Gounardes, who
represents a swath of southern Brooklyn
including Bay Ridge, in a statement.
“Thank you to New York City Health
and Hospitals and the team over at Century
21 who made this a reality.”
The testing site — located at 448
86th St., between Fourth and Fifth avenues
— is expected to take the burden
off other local sites and reduce wait
times which will hopefully encourage
more people to get tested, Brannan
said in a statement.
“Due to the rise of new variants and
a drastic increase in the demand for
testing, we and the rest of the city have
seen growing lines and wait times that
are simply unconscionable,” Brannan
said. “No one should have to give
up their whole day get tested. I’m so
thankful to NYC Health and Hospitals
for seeing the need for our new location,
and to the Century 21 team for
opening their doors to meet it. This
is going to make a huge difference in
keeping our neighborhoods as healthy
and safe as possible.”
The “self-testing site” — a method
which has gained popularity as New
Yorkers face a shortage of at-home
tests and traditional testing sites continue
to be overrun — will administer
at-home tests which visitors can take
on-site under the guidance of an NYC
Health and Hospitals employee.
A ‘Going Out Of Business” sign adorns the
old Century 21 before it shuttered in late
2020. File Photo by Paul Frangipane
The Century 21 testing site will
serve as Bay Ridge’s second NYC
Health and Hospitals COVID testing
site, the other just half a block away at
8511-8515 Fifth Ave.
This is the fi rst time the barren
building will be used since Century 21
closed at the end of 2020. The big-name
retailer announced the closure of all
of its 13 locations — including two in
Brooklyn — after fi ling for bankruptcy
in September 2020. Owners at the time
blamed the shutdown on the pandemic
and the chain’s longtime insurance company,
which allegedly refused to pay out
nearly $175 million to the store under
their business interruption policy.
The department store’s closure sent
shockwaves through Brooklyn, and
especially Bay Ridge, where residents
depended on the store for decades —
and while rumors spread in 2021 that
Century 21 could make a comeback,
those claims ended up proving fruitless
when the 86th Street location offi -
cially went up for sale to kickoff 2022.
News of the new Bay Ridge testing
site also comes as locals lament a lack
of options in southern Brooklyn — and
as elected offi cials across the city and
the aisle work to secure more testing
resources for their districts.
Just last week, the city’s lone Republican
congressmember, Rep. Nicole
Malliotakis, announced an expansion
of PCR testing in her district, which
includes a sliver of southern Brooklyn.
In a release, the pol said she helped secure
three new testing sites: RJ Medical
and Urgent Care at 464 Bay Ridge
Ave., Americare at 8114 Fifth Ave.vand
Teba Pharmacy at 7618 Fifth Ave.
“As residents continue to experience
long lines at existing testing sites,
expanding the number of locations and
tests available in our community is
key so people can determine whether
their symptoms are COVID and properly
isolate to stop the spread,” Malliotakis
said.
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