NY Opens Vaccination Sites In State Office Buildings

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY — Following the governor's mandate of vaccinations for state employees and patient-facing employees in state-run hospitals, the state opened new vaccination sites Wednesday in state office buildings around New York.

Nine locations will allow state employees a convenient way to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, including in Poughkeepsie at the Eleanor Roosevelt State Office Building.

The full list of sites are:

• Dulles State Office Building in Watertown
• Hughes State Office Building in Syracuse
• Utica State Office Building
• Binghamton State Office Building
• Empire State Plaza Concourse
• Eleanor Roosevelt State Office Building in Poughkeepsie
• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building in Harlem
• Duryea State Office Building in Hauppauge
• NYS Department of Labor, Hicksville

Cuomo also said the state is reevaluating the remaining mass vaccination sites based on demand, proximity to other vaccination sites and other locally focused efforts.

"While we continue to use every tool at our disposal to make the vaccine available to all New Yorkers," he said, "we are determining that some of our mass vaccination sites can meet demand using smaller spaces."

Cuomo said that he urged everyone with an appointment for a second dose to honor that appointment, but be ready to show up at a new site if necessary.

In the Hudson Valley, mass vaccinations sites are still open at the New York National Guard Armory in Yonkers, the Westchester County Center in White Plains and Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern.