# Joshua Shapiro, New Windsor: a dermatologist in New Windsor (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ny/new-windsor/joshua-shapiro-new-windsor-ny. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 3 sources. Updated 2026-09-02. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ny/new-windsor/joshua-shapiro-new-windsor-ny

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## In short

Joshua Shapiro is a dermatologist in New Windsor, NY. Its AI Score is 43 of 100, which is poor.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Dermatologist |
| Address | 448 Temple Hill Rd Ste 101, New Windsor, NY 12553, USA |
| Hours | Mon 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Tue 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Closed Wed · Thu 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (845) 567-3434 |
| Medical director | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.4 across 79 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Joshua Shapiro is best known for his thorough and effective treatment of skin issues, particularly enlarged pores and unusual skin conditions like beads under the skin. Patients value his attentive approach and quick results. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 9:35 AM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 448 Temple Hill Rd Ste 101, New Windsor, NY 12553, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | 448 Temple Hill Rd Ste 101, New Windsor, NY 12553 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Tue 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Wed Closed · Thu 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Joshua Shapiro | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (845) 567-3434 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Acne treatment | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Actinic keratosis treatment | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Alopecia treatment | AI guess | Nothing found |
| Services | Service | Body contouring | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Botox | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Chemical peels | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Cryotherapy | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Dermal fillers | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Excisional surgery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Laser therapies | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Mohs micrographic surgery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Moles | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Neurotoxins | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/vanguarddermatology | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/vanguarddermny | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | http://vanguarddermatology.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Aug 24, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 10 services Joshua Shapiro offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Body contouring |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Botox |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Neurotoxins |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Dermal fillers |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Excisional surgery |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Mohs micrographic surgery |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Moles |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Chemical peels |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Cryotherapy |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Laser therapies |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

Joshua Shapiro is best known for his thorough and effective treatment of skin issues, particularly enlarged pores and unusual skin conditions like beads under the skin. Patients value his attentive approach and quick results.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Joshua Shapiro

Address: 448 Temple Hill Rd Ste 101, New Windsor, NY 12553, USA. Phone: (845) 567-3434. Hours: Mon 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Tue 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Closed Wed · Thu 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked August 24, 2026 at 5:04 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Joshua Shapiro on its Google Business Profile: "448 Temple Hill Rd Ste 101, New Windsor, NY 12553"


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Temple Hill Monument | Park | 8 min walk |
| Primo's Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 8 min walk |
| Matson's Deli & Cafe | Deli | 9 min walk |
| National Purple Heart Hall of Honor | Museum | 10 min walk |


## Reputation

4.4 average across 79 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read August 24, 2026.)

Dr. Shapiro is recognized for his effective dermatological treatments but faces criticism for office management and professionalism. (AI guess, from 79 reviews.)


### What people like

- Effective treatment for acne and eczema
- Easy online appointment scheduling


### What people do not like

- Unprofessional front desk staff
- Appointment cancellations with short notice
- Long waits for responses from the office


### Press

No press story about Joshua Shapiro found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Joshua Shapiro

Joshua Shapiro hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### prices round here, anyone got a number

No answer yet


### parking at Joshua Shapiro, where does everyone put the car?

No answer yet


### planning a Wednesday visit, is that a wasted trip

No answer yet


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?

No answer yet


### any last minute appts at Joshua Shapiro?

No answer yet


### best dermatologist in New Windsor

No answer yet


### are the injectors here nurses or doctors

No answer yet


### does it hurt, and can you ask for numbing

No answer yet


### walk in here, or is it appointment only?

No answer yet


### is Murphy any better for Effective treatment of enlarged pores

No answer yet


### anywhere cheaper than Joshua Shapiro in New Windsor that is still good?

No answer yet


### what does Joshua Shapiro actually get right?

No answer yet


### opening hours at Joshua Shapiro in New Windsor, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### services here, what do people go in for?

No answer yet


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say

No answer yet


### do regulars get anything here

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Joshua Shapiro

We ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about Joshua Shapiro. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 2, 2026. Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 24, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What the record says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hours | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 2, 2026: 11 a.m.–7 p.m. | Mon 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Tue 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Closed Wed · Thu 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM · Fri 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |


## The AI Score: 43 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. New Windsor dermatologists run 38 to 58. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Joshua Shapiro scores 43, below the New Windsor average of 46. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Joshua Shapiro |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 33 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 1 of 3 answers that recommended anyone. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 81 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 57 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 84 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 50 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 81 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a dermatologist

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a dermatologist in New York, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice.

- Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the New York medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free.
- Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license.
- Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area.
- Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Joshua Shapiro if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Joshua Shapiro |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joshua Shapiro | MedicalBusiness | #business | http://vanguarddermatology.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Botox | MedicalProcedure | #service-botox | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin | Service offered |
| New Windsor, New York | City | #city | Nothing found | City Joshua Shapiro is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the dermatologists in New Windsor, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best dermatologists in New Windsor: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/new-windsor/dermatologist
- Best businesses in New Windsor: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/new-windsor


### Nearby

- /new-york: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/new-york
- /poughkeepsie: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/poughkeepsie
- /middletown: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/middletown
- /flushing: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/flushing
- /kingston: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/kingston
- /huntington: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny/huntington


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in New York: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ny


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


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### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own Joshua Shapiro. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJM2uyGQT0wokRMHGO6cxJv4o (accessed Aug 24, 2026)
- [2] vanguarddermatology.com, https://vanguarddermatology.com/services-offered/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 2, 2026; Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 24, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 19, 2026)