Jake says he looked it up online but found no other options to get tested for COVID, so he opted to wait in the long line at a mobile clinic in town.
“How is everyone sick, now everyone wants to get tested,” says Jake.
It’s like him, some Harlem residents say they have had a hard time finding where to get tested.
NY1 Noticias made a tour of other centers, the state opened a new one this Wednesday in the Adam Clayton Powell building on 125th Street where in the early hours of the morning very few waited to take the test.
When we asked the people in the line of the mobile city center as well as Jake they did not know that they were doing the test there.
“No, I did not find … Now I was looking, I did not see that here,” said a resident.
At the corner of the intersection of 114 and Frederick Douglass Blvd, another test center for the community organization Somos and the office of State Senator Adriano Espaillat did not open due to technical problems.
The center is expected to begin operating on Thursday and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Some residents hope more centers will open “You can see that it is difficult because many people are looking for a place … Wherever you go there is a long line”.
The state opened four other test centers: in Brooklyn at Kings Plaza Mall, in Queens at York College, in the Bronx at Concourse Village, and another on Staten Island.
Some had long lines of people waiting, to find a state testing site call 1-888-364-3065
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