All But 1 Bed-Stuy ZIP Code Reach 50-Percent Vaccine Rate: Data

BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — After lagging other parts of New York City and the borough as a whole, nearly all of Bed-Stuy has reached the halfway mark in getting its residents vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Four of the five ZIP codes that span Bed-Stuy had reached the 50-percent vaccination rate on Friday, meaning half of the residents over 18 in each had gotten at least the first dose of the vaccine, city data shows. The northern 11205 and 11206 ZIP codes were the last of the four to reach the milestone.

Only 11233, which has consistently had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the city, had not reached the 50-percent mark. As of Friday, 39 percent of adults had been partially vaccinated in the ZIP code, which includes the eastern portion of Bed-Stuy, as well as parts of Brownsville and Ocean Hill.

The highest vaccination rate in the neighborhood is found in 11216, which became the first Bed-Stuy ZIP code to reach the 50-percent mark late last month. Nearly 60 percent of adults in 11216, which includes parts of Crown Heights, had been partially vaccinated as of Friday.

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Brooklyn as a whole reached the 50-percent marker last week, the second to last borough to do so.

The borough's wealthiest, majority-white neighborhoods still have the highest vaccine rates, including Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights, where more than 70 percent of adults have gotten at least their first shot.

The city has struggled to reach New Yorkers of color and the neighborhoods hardest-hit by the coronavirus crisis since the start of its vaccine distribution.

Coronavirus rates have continued a steady decline as New Yorkers get vaccinated, despite a recent slowdown in the distribution of the shot.

In Bed-Stuy, rates are lowest in 11205 and 11216, where the seven-day positivity stood at 1.24 percent and 1.47 percent as of Friday. The highest coronavirus rate in the neighborhood is in 11233 at 3.45 percent, data shows.

Find all the vaccine and coronavirus rates by ZIP code on the city's data page here.