500 Coronavirus Deaths In Crown Heights Zip Codes, Data Shows

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Rich and poor. Black and Hasidim. Gentrified and long-standing communities.

Crown Heights is in many ways a community divided — and deaths from the new coronavirus are no exception, according to long-awaited city data.

Overall, 509 people died from coronavirus in five zip codes largely or partially covering Crown Heights, the data shows.

Those are:

• 11213 zip code — 125 deaths
• 11216 zip code — 59 deaths
• 11225 zip code — 122 deaths
• 11233 zip code — 119 deaths
• 11238 zip code — 84 deaths

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There were 4,983 total confirmed cases in those zip codes as of Monday, according to the data.

The neighborhood shares some of those zip codes with Bed-Stuy and Prospect Heights, making it difficult to precisely say how many people in Crown Heights proper died from or even had the virus.

But the numbers still reflect what city officials acknowledged with the data's release — poor and black and brown communities are the hardest-hit by the virus.

"The data also show that this virus is not hitting New Yorkers equitably," said Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot on Monday. "That reality is guiding the COVID-19 response."

People living in 11213 zip code split roughly equally between Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy typically make about $35,000 a year, according to U.S. Census data. And that's the zip code with the most deaths and highest death rate — 194 deaths per 100,000 people — seen in and near the neighborhood.

By contrast, the 11216 zip code's typical income is about $61,000 a year, according to data. It had the fewest deaths and lowest death rate — 106 deaths per 100,000 people — of a Crown Heights zip code.

The second-lowest number of deaths — 84 — hailed from the 11238 zip code shared with Prospect Heights, according to the city data.

Black and brown people citywide had a coronavirus death rate of about 200 per 100,000 people, the data shows.

White death rates stood at 102.04 per 100,000 people.

Check out a map of New York City's coronavirus deaths by zip code here.

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