Outside Bushwick Educational Campus, a line of mostly young men stretched down Irving Avenue on Sunday, waiting for their first dose of the monkeypox vaccine.

“I'm craving it. My pores are like, ‘Gimme gimme gimme,’” Larry Bullock, a bartender, told Gothamist as he waited in line. “I work in a gay club, I need it, I've been wearing gloves to work for the last four nights and I never wear gloves to work. But I've noticed my hands are so soft and supple now."

The high school was one of three large-scale sites that opened Sunday as New York City ramps up its vaccination efforts to tamp down on rising cases. As of Friday, the city reported 461 cases of monkeypox which account for nearly a third of all U.S. cases recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The city is struggling to meet demand with a limited supply of doses, and last week, officials botched the vaccine roll out when its outsourced appointment websites crashed. Eventually, the city transitioned to using its own appointment scheduling site where appointments quickly disappeared.