Midtown Suffers Nearly 200 Coronavirus Deaths: City

MIDTOWN-HELL'S KITCHEN, NY — Nearly 200 Midtown and Hell's Kitchen residents have suffered fatal cases of the new coronavirus, according to a new batch of city data that breaks down the number of virus deaths tests in each city zip code.

A long-awaited breakdown of coronavirus fatalities by neighborhood released Monday revealed that 215 people have died of the virus in the seven zip codes that make up Midtown neighborhoods.

Here's how the numbers break down for Midtown's zip codes:

• 10001: 17 deaths (335 cases)
• 10016: 46 (642)
• 10017: 5 (132)
• 10018: 3 (200)
• 10019: 42 (558)
• 10022: 25 (325)
• 10036: 33 (389)
• Total: 171 (2,581)

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Midtown and Hell's Kitchen zip codes had some of the lowest rates of death due to coronavirus citywide, according to the city Health Department's data. Only one Midtown zip code, 10036, recorded a death rate outside the city's 50 lowest with a rate of about 126 deaths per 100,000 residents. Midtown zip codes with extremely low death rates included 10017 and 10018 which suffered just about 31 deaths per 100,000 residents.

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

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

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

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