Upper West Side Tallies At Least 670 Coronavirus Cases: Data

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN — The Upper West Side has reported hundreds of cases of the new coronavirus but is significantly less hard-hit than other New York City areas that have become hotspots for the virus, new data shows.

A long-awaited breakdown of coronavirus cases by neighborhood released Wednesday shows that the four zip codes that include parts of the Upper West Side — 10023, 10024, 10025 and 10069 — had a combined 670 confirmed cases of the coronavirus as of March 31.

The zip code with the most cases, 10025, includes the northern-most portion of the neighborhood from West 91st Street to West 116th Street. The neighborhood's smallest zip code area, 10069, which encompasses a slice near Lincoln Square, has the least amount of cases.

Here's the breakdown for the three zip codes:

• 10023, 190 positives
• 10024, 204 positives
• 10025, 252 positives
• 10069, 24 positives

The Upper West Side case counts were on the higher end of Manhattan zip codes, but significantly less than some of the hardest-hit areas, such as a Queens zip code that had 947 cases, the most of any in the city. Washington Height's southern-most zip code had the highest tally in Manhattan with 308 cases.

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The neighborhood-specific data has largely shown that the virus is hitting low-income areas the hardest. Nineteen of the 20 neighborhoods with the lowest percentage of positive tests have been in wealthy ZIP codes, according to the New York Times.

Experts have warned, though, that New Yorkers should not take a lower number of cases in their neighborhood to necessarily mean they are less at risk.

Given New York's density, all New Yorkers should operate under the assumption that "they are at risk and there is very active transmission in the city," an expert told Pro Publica.

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

The raw city numbers can be found here.

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