Contact Central NJ Mask Bloc

Below are some of our forms. You can also direct message us on our social media, or email us if that is more accessible for you!

Need Masks?
Check HERE to request masks and to see our selection!

Want to donate to our bloc?
Complete our Donation Form if donating supplies.
You can also donate funds to our Kofi.

Interested in joining us?
Complete our New Member Interest Form.

Have questions or want to collaborate? Email us at [email protected].

Central NJ Mask Bloc

we keep each other safe

Central NJ Mask Bloc is a disabled and queer led group promoting community care through mutual aid and education.

What is mutual aid?

Mutual aid is how we work together to meet each other's needs in our community. This comes from an understanding that the state and the oppressive systems we are forced to live under will not meet our needs, and in fact create or worsen the conditions we live in. When the world we live in is unjust, mutual aid is a radical response where we choose to connect with and care for one another and our collective survival. A mask bloc (like ours) is just one example of a mutual aid project.

What do we do?

We distribute free high filtration respirators and covid-19 rapid antigen tests (when available) through deliveries, community mask dispensers, tabling events, and local partnerships. We also provide educational resources to combat public health disinformation, misinformation, and eugenics propaganda.

Community Partnerships:
Solidarity in Action

Note: Our request form is always open to individuals needing masks and tests.The below statement is specific to our solidarity expectations with other organizing groups when requesting supplies from our bloc.

Central NJ Mask Bloc is eager to partner with fellow values-aligned organizers and groups to offer our community high-filtration respirators.One of our core values is that we practice centering access and those most impacted while working towards mutual liberation. If we are providing your group masks, then we need your commitment to combating anti-Blackness, promoting community care, and practicing disability justice, demonstrated by the following actions:• Require masks for your event or action.
• Be explicit about this requirement in your communications leading up to it.
• Require your members/volunteers to wear masks at your mutual aid/community tabling.We also understand the exception of folks medically unable to mask - by requiring masks of your members that can mask, you are helping to keep our most vulnerable community members safer!Requesting masks for your group but not committing to these actions doesn't just mean excluding disabled people from the mutual aid you are organizing, but actively endangering them and our entire community! We must fight the eugenics of the state that wants us dead. Public health has failed us and our bloc is doing the most we can to keep our communities safe.We need you to resist with us!We will not decenter the most impacted by providing your group with supplies without this explicit and actionable commitment.

Why do we do what we do?

We believe in Sins Invalid's 10 Principles of Disability Justice. We resist eugenics and focus on caring for our community and our collective safety, because we believe we keep each other safe. The public health response to Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) has been a failure. It has made fascist anti-mask propaganda mainstream. The United States, a imperial settler colony, has a history of eugenics, fascism, and genocide, which continues with this failed response. We are committed to combating and resisting mass death and disablement while keeping each other safe with the resources available to us. Masks are one of those resources and they serve multiple purposes. Everyone, not just disabled people, is at increased risk of dying or becoming disabled by Covid-19 and other airborne illnesses. There have been many ways disinformation has spread to create a false sense of normal in favor of capitalism instead of our safety:

  • The idea of "vax and relax" and that vaccines are the only protection you need

  • Refusing to acknowledge and prevent airborne transmission

  • Overall minimization of Covid and its dangerous effects

  • The lab leak propaganda that spreads anti-Chinese sentiment

  • Ending the Public Health Emergency even though Covid is still spreading, disabling, and killing many people

All of the above worked together to create a false story that we as a society agree to mass infection, disablement, exploitation, and death. This continues no matter what administration is in charge of the government or institutions like the CDC.

Our struggles are all connected!

  • We are queer and we learned that Long Covid has a disproportionate impact on Trans people. We know that Black and Indigenous people, and people of color in general, are less likely to be diagnosed with both Long Covid and ME/CFS because of racism and lack of access to medical care.

  • We are anti-capitalists. We know that Covid-19 is a labor issue, because racial capitalism continues to exploit, disable, and kill workers through forced covid infections, anti-mask policies, union-busting, lack of paid sick leave, etc.

  • We work on understanding how every part of our lives are affected by the ideology of white supremacy. We recognize that incarceration and forced institutionalization are violent and meant to disappear people the government finds undesirable. We also recognize the physical forces that carry out these ideologies like ICE, police, prisons and the US military. We believe abolition is liberatory and necessary.

  • We are anti-racists who recognize that ableism and anti-Black racism is central to the history of this country. Both of these ideas have continued to shape the country throughout history and today. There is the history of the genocide of the Native people of Turtle Island, the chattel slavery of African Americans, and forced sterilizations. Racist eugenics also continues today with white people being less likely to mask once they found out Black folks were most impacted by Covid.

  • We are anti-imperialists and we believe in resistance to colonialism by all means and land back. We believe this is necessary for global liberation and the survival of our planet - from Turtle Island to Palestine to Sudan to all oppressed people and occupied lands. We reject fascism in all its forms and the injustices committed by the US empire under each and every president - we refuse to accept that eugenics and genocide, here and abroad, is normal.

Our Commitments

These are our current agreements, last updated 7/17/2025

Our members wear masks indoors and outdoors whenever possible, because we care about those most affected by covid. We also believe in practicing our values while we work together for liberation. Even though the public health response to Covid-19 was a systemic failure, we understand that we as individuals must also fight the state's neglect, not add to it. We mask up to protect one another.Our members commit to choose care. We choose to become more informed, instead of choosing denial or to do nothing. We think choosing to do nothing and minimizing the pandemic is violent. We commit to supporting each other as we adapt to and survive the ongoing pandemic. We commit to this for future pandemics, climate disasters, and fascism. We work together in ways that listen to and trust our bodies and capacities. This may seem slow or go against what society says is "productive". We make decisions together so we can build community for the long-term. We believe building networks of safety and support for community care is important to surviving fascism.We are made up of community members, workers, patients, students, and caretakers. We believe everyone has the right to be in communal spaces safely. This includes spaces like public transportation, workplaces, medical and mental healthcare facilities, grocery stores, and schools. Safely means being in the space and not risking death, disablement, or further debilitation from Covid-19 and other airborne illnesses.Disabled and immunocompromised people deserve community and connection. We know that accessible, safer spaces for everyone are possible. Wearing a mask whenever possible makes these spaces possible for everyone. Especially for fellow disabled folks who can't wear their own respiratory protection*. There will be access friction and we believe it is possible to meet everyone's access needs without compromising safety. We also believe that solidarity with the most impacted, disabled and queer folks of the Global Majority, is necessary for collective liberation.

*This might mean not being able to mask sometimes (ex. having nausea because of overheating, being diabetic and needing to eat in an inaccessible space, etc.) or not at all (ex. people with trachs, those born without a jaw, neurologically and developmentally disabled folks who can’t tolerate masking, etc.)

Do you have covid?

Are you not sure if you have Covid? Did you know up to 60% of transmission comes from sources who are presymptomatic (before they show symptoms) and asymptomatic (they are sick, but show no symptoms). Here are various resources on testing, resting, and keeping others safe as you recover.

- General Guidance -What to do if you or someone else in your household has COVID-19
My Covid+ Plan Protocol
Pacing and Self Management Guide for ME/CFS

This is an instructional pdf on how to do a rapid throat and nose test for COVID-19 from UK Health Security Agency. There is also this instructional video about collecting a nasal swab from Dr. Eric Levi. The People's CDC shared that a recent study showed that a throat swab will have higher clinical sensitivity than the usual instructed nasal swab.

- Tests & Treatment -$15 Online Paxlovid Consultations
Paxcess - Patient Support Program

Visit our Resources section to learn how to protect yourself and others from Covid-19!

Public Masks Dispensers

You can find free masks and tests (when available) in any of our public mask baskets. If you notice a basket is low on masks or empty, please email us! [email protected].You can also request free masks to be delivered/picked up here.Baskets are listed below in alphabetic order by city.

Two photos stacked on top of each other, the top one has an arrow pointing at it, indicating it is the upper level. The bottom photo also has an arrow, indicating it is the lower level.
The top photo is of a window a window ledge featuring a large green mutual aid supplies poster, with a clear stickered portfolio folder full of various masks next to it. The bottom photo is of a light green double-sided bookcase in front of a wall of light green book shelving with decorative paper and artwork along the top wall. The bookcase has a rectangle sign with a light blue outline, that has the blue highlighted text: TEENS (12-18). The lime green mask basket is on the top of the bookcase, behind the TEENS sign, filled with various individually packed high filtration masks.

ASBURY PARK
Asbury Park Library
500 First AvenueThere is a basket located in the non fiction section of Junior Fiction on the lower level. If entering through the Grand Ave entrance, go down several steps and it will be immediately on your right. If entering through the 1st ave entrance, there is a long flight of stairs into the Adult library, go past the reference desk and then a flight of stairs down to the Junior room. There is also a folder in the main entrance hallway, on your right as you enter, next to the large green mutual aid poster. The library entrances are not wheelchair accessible.

Photo of a green translucent folder filled with different respirators and decorated with mask bloc stickers. The folder is hanging on a shop window above a basket full of chocolate candy. A shop sidewalk and parking lot are visible beyond the window.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
Gilded Raven
120 Cedar Grove Ln, Unit T13Store entrance is level with ground and there is curb cut nearby connected to the parking lot. Entrance can be a bit of a tight fit when well attended since it’s not a large store.

a photo of an orange folder with a FREE MASKS sticker with our QR code against a brick wall filled with various individually packed high filtration masks. The folder is is on a table behind COVID-19 rapid tests, and next to dental hygiene products and Narcan ideas for folks to take.

HIGHLAND PARK
Highland Park Library
31 N 5th AveThe folder is at the harm reduction table in between the seed library and the bathrooms once you enter. The entrance is wheelchair accessible.

a photo of a white table against a flyer covered wall and fire extinguisher, featuring various pamphlets, flyers, and free items such as canned foods and books. The pink mask basket is on the right and filled with rapid tests and various individually packed high filtration masks. There is a paper sign taped to the edge of the table with plain black text: PLEASE TAKE, IS FREE. POR FAVOR AGARREN CON GUSTO, ES GRATIS.

HIGHTSTOWN
RISE Center
219 Franklin StDown the entry stairs and immediately to the right, above the resource table (the dispenser is a plastic portfolio hung up on the wall). The Rise entrance is not wheelchair accessible.

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NEW BRUNSWICK
New Brunswick Teen Center
411 Joyce Kilmer AveThe adults dispenser (plastic portfolio) is upstairs at the reference desk (you can ask the staff member for adult masks). The entry door has a set of stairs, upon entry, walk past the circulation desk, turn left and head down to the last room (reference). The child dispenser (plastic portfolio) is downstairs at the circulation desk (you can ask the staff member for a children's mask). You can enter from the door by the ramp. and turn right to find the circulation desk.

a photo of a dark brown cubicle bookcase against a white dry erase board covered in various flyers. The bookcase has open cubicles with different informational pamphlets, flyers, etc. The teal mask basket is on the top, on the right and filled with rapid tests and various individually packed high filtration masks. There are a few zines next to it about bird flu, covid, and masking, as well as our community flyer. An open office door made of glass is in the background on the right.

NEW BRUNSWICK
Paul Robeson Cultural Center at Rutgers
600 Bartholomew Rd (Busch campus)Enter through the Richard Weeks facing entrance and the basket is right there on your left at the resource table against a wall filled with various flyers. This entrance is wheelchair accessible.

picture of a basket of respirators with a sign that reads: FREE protection from COVID and air pollution. Protección GRATIS contra el COVID y la contaminación del aire. scan for more free masks. escanea para más mascarillas gratis.

NORTH BRUNSWICK
North Brunswick Senior Center
15 Linwood PlFor senior resident (55+) in North Brunswick only! There is a parking lot and a wheelchair accessible entrance. The basket is located in the main hall upon entering!

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NEW BRUNSWICK
Rutgers Social Justice Education Center
17 Bartlett Street
(College Avenue Campus)The adult dispenser (blue plastic portfolio) is on the wall to the left of the hallway entrance (next to a white board, under a magazine shelf). The child dispenser (orange plastic portfolio) is across the hall from the adult dispenser, above the safer sex supplies. The front entrance has steps, but the back entrance is wheelchair accessible.

Two photos stacked on top of each other, the top one has an arrow pointing at it, indicating it is the 1st floor. The bottom photo also has an arrow, indicating it is the 3rd floor. Top is a photo of a light brown wooden bookcase featuring various flyers across the top. The bookcase has white metal shelves with different informational pamphlets, flyers, and a teal mask basket filled with rapid tests and various individually packed high filtration masks. Bottom is a photo of light colored wooden desk in a circular arc shape, with a white basket on top filled with various individually packaged respirators. Next to it are a few black and white quarter zines. Behind the desk is a book cart and more of the children’s area, sunlit with large windows.

PLAINSBORO
Plainsboro Library
9 Van Doren StLibrary has two wheelchair accessible entrances (one facing Sohl Pl, the other facing Market Square). Upon entering, go to the circulation desk ahead (on the left if entering through Sohl Pl, or on the right if facing Market Square). The 1st floor basket (teal) is located across from the cafe on a light colored wood bookcase with metal shelves. The cafe is immediately to the left after entering through the market square entrance. For the 3rd floor basket, use the Sohl Pl entrance, and immediately upon entering, the elevator will be to your left. Once on the third floor, head towards the middle of the children’s floor, and the basket (white) will be locate on the left side of the circular librarian’s desk, on top of the counter.

Photo of the entrance to JFCS of Greater Mercer County — including a sign with the name of the organization on a brick building, a door with a large glass window with the number 204 printed on it, and level sidewalk allowing those with mobility aides or other wheeled devices through.

PRINCETON
707 Alexander Rd, STE 102
Jewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Mercer County Food BankOnce you enter for your food bank appointment, masks will be available upon request (just ask whoever is checking you in)

a photo of a black square basket featuring a free masks/mascarillas gratis qr code sticker on it, placed on a light colored wooden countertop. The basket is filled with various individually packed high filtration masks, rapid tests, and nitrile gloves.To the right of the basket is the glass office entrance door. Behind the basket is a window looking out into the parking lot, with several cars, a trash bin, and the building's brick outer wall visible.

TRENTON
Puerto Rican Community Center
223 Perry StreetThe basket is on the counter immediately to your right upon entering through the office entrance (from the parking lot behind the center on Olive St). From the parking lot to the office door is wheelchair accessible, however there is no push-button for the door. The door must be opened from the inside by a staff member for all visitors.

a photo of a yellow translucent open portfolio folder full of masks against a white wall between two gray doors. To the left of the folder is a blue bathroom sign indicating a men’s bathroom. Above the mask folder is a laminated piece of paper with small text with various highlights, unreadable from this distance. The folder is filled with various individually packed high filtration masks.

TRENTON
Free Public Library
120 Academy StreetThe adult dispenser (plastic portfolio) is next to the main desk upon entry. The child dispenser (plastic portfolio) is on the second floor for the children's room. The front entrance has a wheelchair accessible ramp, and there is an elevator to get to the second floor to the right of the main entry desk. There is no push-button for the door, but they should be getting new ramp/button installed summer 2025.

Get Free Masks

**How do I request masks?

We currently offer mask deliveries, pickups and mailings in these counties:
Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth & Somerset.

Are you in NJ, but outside of the counties we support?
We collaborate with Mask Bloc NJ & Mask Bloc Jersey City to support the NJ area! You can also find a list of where there are free mask dispensers here.

Grades:
KF94 (South Korea Standard)
KN95 (China standard)
N95 (US standard)
FFP3 (Europe standard)N95 ≈ KN95 ≈ FFP2 < N99 ≈ KN99 ≈ FFP3 < N100 ≈ KN100

*Available Mask Selection

Strap style: strapless (for medical procedures)

Strap style: headband

Strap style: earloop

Covid Tests:

Test Type:
Intelliswab Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test (2 pk)
expires: 03/31/2026

Test Type: We are out of covid tests.
If we are able to get more we'll update this section!
Tipo de Prueba: No tenemos pruebas de covid en este momento. Compartiremos noticias si conseguimos más.

Not sure which masks fit you best?

Request our sample pack!
(limited supply)Each sample pack includes different masks we have (depending on availability) and features various shapes (bifold, boat/trifold, cup, and duckbill) with both headstrap and ear loops, for children and adults. The sample pack also includes a silicone ear saver.

* A note on expiration dates: Our masks are stored indoors and some may show as past their expiration date. Generally masks last longer than their expiration date!Learn more about expiration dates here
MedSup testing information