Now there's a face mask vending machine in midtown

Another vending machine selling face masks has popped up at Columbus Circle's Turnstyle Underground Market.

In April, online retailer RapidMask2Go installed a face mask vending machine at 156 Delancey Street, selling KN95 masks and added more at that location and another at 3015 Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island in May.

The masks aree $3 a pop with the option of buying bundles of three, five, and 10.

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Rapidmask2go.com sells KN95 masks—not N95 medical grade masks—which are for personal/general everyday use only, the company told us.

The online shop will install more vending machines throughout the city and open up a brick-and-mortar store at the same location when the city opens back up.

New Yorkers are required to wear face masks in public if social distancing isn't possible. If they don't they could face an NYPD summons. 

In May, New York City began handing out free face coverings at parks, grocery stores, public housing and grab-and-go meal sites.

But a lot of other countries have been using vending machines, including Germany, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic, so it was only a matter of time until some showed up here, no matter how strange the concept is.

Over here in #CzechRepublic🇨🇿, we already have vending machines with masks. Czech people are making them at home and giving them to others, we don't wait for outside help and so should you. Stay safe, help each other, we can do this together #COVID19 #Czechia #coronavirus #corona pic.twitter.com/hW9brBKK0i

— 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮 🦇 (@SynastryComics) March 24, 2020

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