Yes, elderberry (Sambucol) is available in New York City, I bought some at a vitamin shoppe, the syrup is quite tasty. At the office we all became obsessed with buying this after reading about it in one of the alternative health care magazines, and lo and behold it was advertised during the big 35% off sale at this particular chain store. I've also taken to dropping echinacea STRAIGHT from the dropper onto my tongue whenever someone at the office so much as sneezes my way. After being sick for four months with whooping cough, I don't need any new bugs, thank you! This method of ingesting the extract was shown to those of us who attended an HERBS ETC lecture given by the president of that company who believes his asthma was cured when he started using herbology. This is the way some people use the extract, instead of diluting it in water. One of his distributors was at the meeting and that's how she used it. I feel that it is absorbed better too.FWIW Pearl Shifer