After City Relocates COVID Vaccine Hub, Bushwick Neighbors Step In To Ease Confusion
arrow Mutual aid group volunteers sit outside the shuttered vaccine site at Bushwick Educational Campus. Courtesy of Bed Stuy Strong
After Tanner Celestin, 27, arrived for her second COVID-19 vaccine appointment at Bushwick Educational Campus last Thursday evening, her confusion quickly turned into annoyance. This was the site she had visited for her first shot, but now it looked closed.
That frustration was fleeting because as Celestin walked toward the building, she was quickly intercepted by a volunteer with the mutual aid group Bed Stuy Strong.
They told her that the site had been relocated to a hub about a mile-and-a-half away. The volunteer handed Celestin a slip of paper with a code for a free Lyft to get to the new spot at 455 Jefferson Street, along with a flyer featuring a little map of the area.