See If Your NYC Neighborhood Falls In A Coronavirus Closure Zone

NEW YORK CITY — One side of a border between new coronavirus cluster zones can be the difference between students going to school, a casual evening inside a restaurant or whether a business can keep its doors open.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's freshly-minted, color-coded closure zones quickly drew mixed-to-negative from New Yorkers confused by where their neighborhoods fell.

His office later released more detailed maps and Mayor Bill de Blasio — who said enforcement on restrictions begins Thursday — outlined the affected ZIP codes.

“The faster we address this challenge the shorter the shutdown will be,” de Blasio said.

The city put out a searchable website — the "COVID-19 Zone Finder" — that allows New Yorkers to type in their address or nearby intersection and see if it falls in a closure area.

Areas in Brooklyn and Queens covered by red zones cover actual clusters of coronavirus cases. They have the most restrictions and closures, which are:

• Houses of worship: 25 percent capacity, 10 people maximum
• Mass gatherings: Prohibited
• Businesses: Only essential businesses open
• Dining: Takeout only
• Schools: Closed, remote only

Orange "warning" zones in a roughly five-block buffer around red clusters have fewer, but still strict restrictions. Those are:

• Houses of worship: 33 percent capacity, 25 people maximum
• Mass gatherings: 10 people maximum, indoor and outdoor
• Businesses: Closing high-risk non-essential businesses, such as gyms and personal care
• Dining: Outdoor dining only, four person maximum per table
• Schools: Closed, remote only

Yellow zones form a "precautionary" area around the orange zones. They have fewer restrictions but still some requirements to keep the virus at bay. Those are:

• Houses of worship: 50 percent capacity
• Mass gatherings: 25 people maximum, indoor and outdoor
• Businesses: Open
• Dining: Indoor and outdoor dining, four person maximum per table
• Schools: Open with mandatory weekly testing of students and teachers/staff for in-person settings

The clusters broadly overlap with the nine ZIP codes that city officials previously identified as hotspots and recommended for lockdowns. But state officials instead opted for geographic areas based around clusters themselves.

That means the borders of zones can't easily be summarized. Broadly speaking for Brooklyn, the red zone encompasses much of the area around Ocean Parkway south of Fort Hamilton Parkway and Church Avenue.

The red zone in the so-called "Flushing Zone" in Queens is smaller and broadly bound by the Long Island Expressway, Queens Boulevard and 150th Street.

And finally the Far Rockaway red zone is broadly circled by the Nassau Expressway, Seagirt Boulevard and Baywater and Redfern avenues.

No one ZIP code is entirely in a red or orange zone. The affected neighborhoods and ZIP codes in Brooklyn are:

• Borough Park, 11219
• Kensington, 11218
• Bensonhurst, 11204
• Midwood, 11230
• Flatlands, 11210
• Gravesend, 11223
• Gerritsen Beach, 11229
• Portions of Brighton Beach and Coney Island, 11224 and 11235
• Sunset Park, 11220 and within a yellow zone
• Bergen Beach, 11234 and within a yellow zone

Affected Queens neighborhoods and ZIP codes in the "Flushing Zone" are:

• Kew Gardens, 11367 and 11415
• Briarwood/Jamaica, 11435
• Jackson Heights, 11372
• Elmhurst, 11373
• Corona, 11368
• Rego Park, 11374 and 11375
• Forest Hills, 11375

The Far Rockaway neighborhoods and ZIP codes are:

• Edgemere/Far Rockaway, 11692
• Arverne, 11692 and within a yellow zone

Click here to access the city's COVID-19 Zone Finder.