Upper West Side Suffers More Than 250 Coronavirus Deaths: Data

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN — The Upper West Side has lost more than 250 people to the coronavirus crisis, according to data released for the first time by the city's Health Department this week.

The long-awaited breakdown of coronavirus fatalities by zip code released Monday revealed that 258 people have died of the virus in the four zip codes that make up the Upper West Side. The data also included death rates, which calculates the number of fatalities per 100,000 people.

Here's how the numbers break down by zip code:

• 10025: 144 deaths, with a death rate of 155 per 100,000 people
• 10024: 62 deaths, with a death rate of 108 per 100,000 people
• 10023: 50 deaths, with a death rate of 82 per 100,000 people
• 10069: 2 deaths, with a death rate of 32 per 100,000 people

A portion of the deaths in two of the Upper West Side zip codes are likely from three neighborhood nursing homes that have seen high death tolls during the pandemic. There have been 38 confirmed coronavirus deaths at The Riverside rehab facility in 10024 and 47 confirmed deaths at Amsterdam Nursing Home and the New Jewish Home, which are both found in the 10025 zip code.

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The death toll for Upper West Side, like many of the city's wealthier neighborhoods, is relatively low compared to the number of fatalities in neighborhoods across New York City. All four zip codes were in the bottom half of death rates for the 178 zip codes that make up New York City, according to the data.

The Health Department's data found the virus running rampant in mostly poor neighborhoods and among people of color, largely in the outer boroughs.

All 20 of the zip codes with the highest death counts were found in outer boroughs, the highest being West Queens zip code 11368, where 369 lives were lost.

Those in the very high poverty bracket saw a death rate of 232.03 per 100,000 while low-poverty New Yorkers saw less than half that rate at 99.56, data show.

Black and Latino New Yorkers continue to die at about twice the rate of white New Yorkers, when adjusted for age, data show.

The death rate per 100,000 people is 212.79 for Hispanic New Yorkers, 204.79 for Black New Yorkers and 102.94 for white New Yorkers, data show.

To view the data culled from your zip code, go to New York City's COVID-19 data page.

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