Free at-home COVID test kits now offered at City’s cultural sites and libraries

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The NYC Test & Trace Corps’ at-home test distribution initiative, in partnership with 14 landmark City cultural sites and 27 branches of The New York Public Library, Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library, began handing out at-home test kits on Valentine’s Day to New Yorkers free of charge.

Test & Trace will make weekly deliveries of at-home tests to cultural sites and libraries, where they will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to one per person while supplies last.

Participating cultural sites and library branches and their hours of distribution are listed below:

Cultural Sites

  • Bronx
    • Bronx Museum of the Arts
      • Tuesdays, 1 to 4 p.m.
    • Wave Hill
      • Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
    • Brooklyn
      • Brooklyn Children’s Museum
        • Monday – Saturday, 12 to 4 p.m.
      • Brooklyn Museum
        • Wednesday – Friday, 12 to 4 p.m.
      • Weeksville Heritage Center
        • Tuesday – Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
      • Manhattan
        • American Museum of Natural History
          • Wednesday – Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
        • El Museo del Barrio
          • Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
        • The Museum of the City of New York
          • Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
        • Queens
          • Flushing Town Hall
            • Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 12 to 5 p.m,
          • Queens Botanical Garden
            • Tuesday – Friday, 12 to 4 p.m.
          • Queens Theatre
            • Tuesday – Friday, 12 to 4 p.m.
          • Staten Island
            • Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden
              • Monday – Friday, 2 to 3 p.m.
            • Staten Island Children’s Museum
              • Saturday & Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m.
            • Staten Island Zoo
              • Monday – Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

 

Brooklyn Public Library

Tests can be picked up at the following libraries Tuesday and Thursday between 2 and 6 p.m., except at Central Library/Civic Commons, noted below.

 

The New York Public Library, serving the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island

Tests can be picked up at the following libraries Monday – Friday between 12 and 4 p.m.

Queens Public Library

Tests can be picked up at the following libraries Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday from 1 to 5 p.m., and Thursday from 12 to 7 p.m., except at Central Library, noted below.

Some branches, noted with a * below, offer additional pick-up hours Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

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