Bed-Stuy Area Tallies At Least 1,500 Coronavirus Cases: Data

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN — The patchwork of zip codes covering Bed-Stuy and parts of its surrounding neighborhoods have at least 1,500 confirmed coronavirus cases, according to city data.

A long-awaited breakdown of coronavirus cases by neighborhood released Wednesday shows Bed-Stuy and other lower-income places in Brooklyn have been particularly hard hit by the outbreak.

The city only released coronavirus counts by zip codes, which don't necessarily fit with neighborhood boundaries. Bed-Stuy, for instance, has six different zip codes, all of which it shares at least partly with surrounding neighborhoods of Crown Heights, Bushwick and Williamsburg.

Tallied together, there were 1,552 positive coronavirus cases in those zip codes as of March 31. The zip codes and cases are:

• 11213, 394 positives
• 11206, 329 positives
• 11221, 260 positives
• 11233, 225 positives
• 11205, 182 positives
• 11216, 162 positives

Bed-Stuy shares roughly half the 11213 zip code — which had the lion's share of cases — with Crown Heights. Likewise, 11206 and 11221 are half-Bed-Stuy and Williamsburg and Bushwick zips, respectively, and only a sliver of 11205 rests in Bed-Stuy proper.

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The number of cases in the Bed-Stuy area account for about one in 10 out of Brooklyn's total 12,274 positive tests. But that's a drop in the bucket compared to those found in south Brooklyn.

A "heat map" of positive coronavirus cases shows a purple bloom representing higher concentrations blossoming in on the southern end of Bed-Stuy and south Brooklyn in general.

The zip code covering Borough Park alone had 771 positive coronavirus cases, the most that can be definitively tied to a single neighborhood in Brooklyn. Its neighboring and somewhat overlapping zip codes had 631 and 534 cases, respectively.

New York City's total coronavirus cases topped 50,000, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday during a news conference.

The raw city numbers can be found here.

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