Hell's Kitchen Is Among NYC's Most Vaccinated Neighborhoods: Data

HELL'S KITCHEN, NY — It has been about eight weeks since all New Yorkers age 16 and over became eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and data shows that Hell's Kitchen has emerged as one of the city's most heavily inoculated neighborhoods.

All three ZIP codes that cover Hell's Kitchen rank in the city's top 10 by the percentage of residents who have gotten at least one dose, according to official data.

Highest among them is 10036, which run roughly between West 41st and 48th streets, and where 91 percent of residents have received a vaccine dose — trailing only two ZIP codes in the Financial District.

Here's the breakdown across Hell's Kitchen, ranked from most to least vaccinated:

• 10036: 91 percent received one dose, 78 percent fully vaccinated (estimated population: 27,242)
• 10018: 81 percent received one dose, 68 percent fully vaccinated (estimated population: 11,791)
• 10019/10020: 80 percent received one dose, 70 percent fully vaccinated (estimated population: 43,522)

The neighborhood's least vaccinated ZIP code, 10019, is also its most populous, though its bounds stretch past Eighth Avenue into the Central Park South area of Midtown. (The city also lumps it together with 10020, a tiny five-block area surrounding Rockefeller Center.)

Still, even Hell's Kitchen's least inoculated areas far exceed some other parts of the city, where some less affluent and less white neighborhoods have had more sluggish rollouts.

In Harlem, for example, one-dose vaccination rates range between 37 and 49 percent. Rates are lowest in parts of Brooklyn and Queens, with a Far Rockaway ZIP code posting the city's lowest rate at just 31 percent.

Still, coronavirus rates across the city continue to drop, a sign of the vaccination campaign's success.

As of Wednesday, the city's seven-day positivity rate stood at 0.83 percent. Virus rates were even lower in Hell's Kitchen's three ZIP codes: in 10018, 10019 and 10036, positivity rates were 0.59, 0.53 and 0.31 percent, respectively.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is trying to further New York City's vaccine rollout, urging young people to get vaccinated and offering walk-in vaccine appointments citywide.

Find vaccine sites to make an appointment or simply walk in at vaccinefinder.nyc.gov.