and I had the pick of the litter,” says Robert Khederian, a real-estate broker who gets tested every other week. “Once, I woke up in the middle of the night, and instead of getting a glass of water, I reserved a COVID test because it was like 3 a.m. Slots are released up to 48 hours ahead of time - so you could book an appointment for a Wednesday on a Monday - usually around midnight. They use the gold standard of diagnostic tests, the RT-PCR, with access to results within 24 hours. But you’ll need to book an appointment, and they fill up fast. There are nine (also free) city-run COVID Express Quickie Lab sites. Got my results within 48 hours.” Other Health + Hospitals sites that people we spoke to say generally have short waits include Jacobi Medical Center, Harlem Hospital Center, 196 Albany Avenue in Crown Heights, 8515 Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge, and St.
Last Wednesday, there were only two people in front of me. “The site in Midwood where I live usually gets pretty backed up - over an hour sometimes - but the one at the Red Hook Recreation Center is almost always empty, and it’s a quick bike ride from my work. “It’s made a big difference for me,” said Jonah Goldberg, a chef who gets tested weekly. That’s when checking wait times on the city’s website comes in handy. Still, depending on where and when you go, it can be a mixed bag of almost no wait time to upwards of two hours. There are dozens of locations, from hospitals and health centers to new pop-up sites ( look up the nearest to you here) - and no appointment is needed. Testing sites run by the city’s (free) Health + Hospitals system generally have shorter waits than private urgent-care clinics like CityMD.
Check wait times at your nearest Health + Hospitals location.
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