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New York Blood Center warns of donor shortfall, plans Throggs Neck donor center for the Bronx
Summary
At a Bronx Borough Service Cabinet meeting, New York Blood Center director Yitierra Navarro said Bronx donations remain well below pre-pandemic levels and announced a planned donor center in Throggs Neck to expand local collections. Navarro urged residents to donate and noted supply levels are currently below the healthy seven-day benchmark.
At a Bronx Borough Service Cabinet meeting on Jan. 12, 2026, Yitierra Navarro, director of community and stakeholder relations for the New York Blood Center, told board members the city and the Bronx continue to experience a shortfall in blood donations and urged local residents to donate.
Navarro said the New York Blood Center is one of the nation's largest nonprofit blood centers, supplying hospitals nationwide and managing a large rare blood inventory. She described a continuing decline in donations since 2012 that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic and has only partially recovered: "We're still down about 25% of community drives" and "still down about 33% for first-time donors," she said,…
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