BY JESSICA PARKS
Southern Brooklyn will
see four new COVID-19 testing
sites in the coming weeks,
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
Thursday.
“Lack of widespread testing
was our Achilles heel from
day one, but we’re rewriting
that story every day,” the
mayor said during his daily
coronavirus briefi ng. “Our
effort to test and trace every
New Yorker in need of a test is
coming together at lightning
speed, giving us the tools we
need to defeat the virus once
and for all.”
The borough’s eight active
testing sites will be joined by
four new ones by May 25, with
the fi rst one slated to open in
Midwood on March 18 alongside
another new site in Manhattan.
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The other three locations
— in Bay Ridge, Sunset
Park and Canarsie — will
open the following week along
Testing sites are slated for Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Midwood and Sunset Park.. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
with seven others across the
city.
“Again, this is going to
keep growing,” said de Blasio.
“The more capacity we have,
the more labs we bring into
the game, the more we’ll keep
building this program out.”
The free testing will be
available to anyone with
symptoms of coronavirus —
regardless of age — as well as
anyone who may have come
in contact with a confi rmed
COVID-19 patient or who
works in a residential home
like a shelter or senior care
facility.
The 12 additional
sites, along with the existing
28 testing locations, will bring
the city’s testing capacity up
to 10,700 tests per day — more
than halfway to the mayor’s
goal of 20,000 tests per day by
May 25.
“We are now confi dent
in that goal. In fact, we want
to beat that goal,” de Blasio
said Thursday. “We believe
that more and more testing
capacity can be put into play
quickly, and that’s going to allow
us to then test people, do
the follow-up tracing, contact
tracing, and for those who
need to be in a hotel, make
that hotel available to them.”
Councilman Justin Brannan,
who represents a swath
of southern Brooklyn, said in
a tweet that it took some coaxing
from his constituents for
City Hall to fi nally budge on a
testing site for Bay Ridge.
“We huffed and we puffed
and City Hall fi nally listened!”
he wrote.
Four new
testing sites
for south BK
The four new southern
Brooklyn sites will
be located at:
• 1223 Coney Island
Ave., between Avenue
H and Avenue I, in Midwood
• Brooklyn Army Terminal
at 80 58th St., at the
intersection Third Avenue,
in Sunset Park
• 8511 5th Ave., between
85th and 86th
streets, in Bay Ridge
• 6565 Flatlands Ave., at
the intersection of Ralph
Avenue, in Canarsie
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