#New Yorkers 50-plus don’t need appointment for COVID vaccination

New Yorkers aged 50 and older no longer need to make an appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccination — they can walk right into more than 30 locations throughout the five boroughs.

The city made the announcement Saturday in the hopes that giving a large swath of the population access to hassle free walk-in appointments will help it reach its goal of vaccinating 5 million people by June.

Previously, walk-in vaccinations were only available to New Yorkers 75 and older.

“Starting TODAY, New Yorkers 50 and older can walk into any City-run site and get vaccinated. No appointment necessary,” Mayor de Blasio tweeted Saturday.

No health insurance is needed to get vaccinated at city-run inoculation facilities.

Hours of operation and addresses of the 31 sites accepting walk-in visits by those over 50 can be found here.

They are:

Bronx

• Bronx Co-Op City Dreiser Community Center
• Northeast Bronx YMCA (Edenwald)
• South Bronx Educational Campus
• West Bronx Gymnasium 
• Lehman College – Apex Center
• Bathgate Contract Postal Station

Brooklyn

• Coney Island YMCA
• Teachers Prep High School
• Starrett City
• Flatbush YMCA
• Bushwick Educational Campus
• Event Space at City Point 
• Brooklyn Army Terminal

Manhattan

• Ford Foundation
• NFL Experience Times Square
• Yeshiva University
• City College 
• Essex Crossing
• Abyssinian Baptist Church
• Fulton Senior Community Center / Hudson Guild

Queens

• Modell’s – Queens Center Mall
• Korean Community Services
• Beach Channel Educational Campus
• Long Island City Vaccine Site (Plaxall)
• Queens Public Library – Flushing Library
• Queens Public Library – Ozone 
• CitiField

Staten Island

• Former Babies R Us – Staten Island Mall
• Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex
• Empire Outlets
• St. Thomas St. Joseph’s School