Syringe Access

Currently WHCP operates as a New York State-licensed Syringe Exchange and Harm Reduction Education Program. Syringe exchange services are available at our 76 Wadsworth Avenue office location (at 176th Street in Washington Heights, Northern Manhattan) as well as street-based near the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal during our various ‘walkabout’ outreach shifts.

Office-based Syringe Exchange is available on:
Monday’s, Wednesday’s, and Friday’s from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday’s, and Thursday’s from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday’s from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Street-based Syringe Exchange is available during outreach shifts which take place within the vicinity of the George Washington Bridge Bus Station on Broadway and 178th during the following hours:
Monday through Friday- 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Monday’s, Tuesday’s, and Thursday’s from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday’s from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
**If you have difficulty locating an our outreach team please call our Outreach Phone: 917-569-4877, we often walk back and forth between 178th Street and 181st Street (West side of Broadway).

In addition to free, sterile syringes WHCP offers safer sex supplies, safer smoking supplies, and safer injection supplies such as bottle caps, cotton, bleach, tourniquet’s, alcohol pads, gauze, band-aids, and antibacterial hand gel.
For more information on street-based Syringe Exchange services please call 212-923-7600 or to reach an outreach worker directly call 917-569-4877.

Supplies provided by WHCP related to Safer Injection

Wide variety of hypodermic syringes
Sterile Water
Bottle Caps
Cottons (filters)
Towelettes
Antibiotic Ointment
Alcohol Pads
Gauze
Bandages
Condoms
Lubricant
Vitamin C (for crack-cocaine injection)
Sharps containers of all sizes