Harlem Vaccine Event Offers Single Doses, Lottery Tickets

HARLEM, NY — A coronavirus vaccine event in Harlem on Thursday will offer free, one-dose jabs to 100 residents — along with free lottery tickets to all who want one.

The event will run from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Thursday at the Salvation Army Harlem Temple, on Lenox Avenue near West 137th Street.

There will be 100 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine on hand, available to the first people who arrive to claim them. The event is sponsored by the Salvation Army, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office and the Harlem Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Those who get vaccinated on Thursday will also receive lottery tickets as part of the state's "Vax & Scratch" program, which offers scratch-off lotto tickets worth up to $5 million as an effort to ramp up vaccinations.

A majority of Harlem residents have gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but officials say more people need to get their shots to prevent the spread of the contagious delta variant.

Here's the vaccination data for all eight Harlem ZIP codes, as of Wednesday:

• 10026 – Central Harlem (South): 52 percent received one dose, 48 percent fully vaccinated
• 10027 – Central Harlem (South)/Morningside Heights/West Harlem: 54 percent received one dose, 50 percent fully vaccinated
• 10029 – East Harlem: 55 percent received one dose, 51 percent fully vaccinated
• 10030 – Central Harlem (North): 47 percent received one dose, 43 percent fully vaccinated
• 10031 – Hamilton Heights/West Harlem: 56 percent received one dose, 51 percent fully vaccinated
• 10035 – East Harlem: 58 percent received one dose, 52 percent fully vaccinated
• 10037 – Central Harlem (North)/East Harlem: 51 percent received one dose, 46 percent fully vaccinated
• 10039 – Central Harlem (North)/Washington Heights (South): 45 percent received one dose, 41 percent fully vaccinated