Upper East Side Suffers More Than 200 Coronavirus Deaths: City

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — More than 200 Upper East Siders 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 six zip codes that make up the Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island.

Here's how the numbers break down for the Upper East Side's zip codes:

• 10021: 57 deaths (526 cases)
• 10028: 28 (448)
• 10044-Roosevelt Island: 31 (222)
• 10065: 24 (316)
• 10075: 41 (362)
• 10128: 34 (603)
• Total: 215 (2,477)

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Death rates on the Upper East Side are relatively low compared to other New York City neighborhoods. Only one Upper East Side zip code — Roosevelt Island's 10044 — ranked within the city's top 75 zip codes by coronavirus death rate. The 10044 zip code has a death rate of 265 deaths per 100,000 residents.

Death rates for the rest of the Upper East Side zip codes are some of the lowest in the city. The 10128 zip code has a rate of just 55 deaths per 100,000 residents, the 10028 code has a rate of about 57 deaths per 100,000 residents and the 10065 code has a rate of about 82 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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