STDs Are Surging In NYC This Year: See Which Neighborhoods Are Most Infested

NEW YORK, NY — Mayor Bill de Blasio found a bunch of happy figures to throw around in his annual "Mayor's Management Report," a sort of mandatory in-house report card, for summer 2017. Murder and robbery rates both dropped 12 percent over the past fiscal year (July '16 to June '17), it said. Traffic deaths were cut by 11 percent, and DUI deaths by a full quarter. Cops showed up to crime scenes around half a minute faster. Cases of kids with high levels of lead in their blood dropped 10 percent. The infant death rate dipped 5 percent. New HIV cases hit a historic low. School kids scored a smidge higher on their standardized tests. City buildings farted out three times less greenhouse gas than they did the year prior.

Again keeping with tradition, though, the 2017 report largely sugar-coated the not-so-happy trends within the mayor's recent track record — or left them out altogether.

For instance: NYC's widening income disparity. A net loss in rent-controlled apartments. Record-high homelessness. A rise in traffic accidents and injuries (if not fatalities).

But among the most extreme of the wayward city stats missing from de Blasio's report was a crazy surge in (non-HIV-related) sexually transmitted diseases — one that began during the mayor's first term and, records show, is still raging out of control in 2017.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see where your neighborhood ranks on the infestation scale.

How did we get here? It all started around 2014, when three of America's most common STDs — syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia — began to make a major comeback across the country. For the most part, health officials blamed the outbreak on dwindling government budgets for STD treatment and prevention. Less scientifically, they also blamed a tech-fueled hookup renaissance of sorts among millennials who were using apps like Tinder, Bumble and Grindr (and not, apparently, condoms) to get laid.

The situation only got worse from there.

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From 2015 to 2016, the city's syphilis rate shot up 27 percent, according to the Department of Health. During that same period, the gonorrhea rate rose by 13 percent, and the chlamydia rate by 6 percent.

The city hadn't seen an STD epidemic like this since the 1980s, the city's Independent Budget Office warned. And a report issued by the same office showed a financial correlation. Between 2006 and 2015, it said, as STD rates began to creep up in NYC, the city's annual budget for treatment and prevention stagnated between $10 million and $15 million.

All that changed circa summer 2016, when de Blasio bumped up his anti-STD budget to a pudgy $25 million.

City health officials have since used this extra taxpayer cash to extend daily hours and hire more staffers at their eight "low- to no-cost" STD clinics, and — as you've probably noticed by now — launch a public awareness campaign targeting NYC's young and reckless. (One that has transformed the subway system into a racy art exhibit exploring the role of the eggplant, taco and peach emoji in modern communication.)

But alas — despite the emoji art, our local STD problem has ballooned even bigger in 2017.

City data shows that in the first three months of this year, chlamydia and gonorrhea rates surged far past 2016 levels to 18,079 cases and 5,754 cases, respectively.

If that trend continues, nearly 850 out of every 100,000 New Yorkers will have come down with chlamydia by the end of December (up from 780 or so last year), and around 270 out of every 100,000 will have come down with gonorrhea (up from 223 or so last year).

Syphilis — which spiked more dramatically than both chlamydia and gonorrhea at the outset of the triple STD crisis — actually backed off a little in the first quarter of 2017. However, rates of "primary and secondary" syphilis are still on pace to infect about 20 out of every 100,000 city residents this year — twice the rate we were seeing five years back.

And other, less common types of syphilis are still very much on the rise, city data shows.

A spokesman for the Health Department argued these latest numbers are likely higher because more people are showing up to city clinics to get tested, and because the tests themselves have gotten more accurate. Plus the whole dating-app thing, he said.

(It's worth noting, however, that the public clinic in Chelsea — the NYC neighborhood hardest-hit by male chlamydia and gonorrhea — has been shut down for the past two-and-a-half years for renovations. It was supposed to re-open in 2017, but last we checked, it was still all boarded up. City records also show that health officials passed out fewer free condoms in 2016 and 2017 than in years prior.)

If caught at an early stage, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia can be easily treated with antibiotics — with the possible of exception of that super-scary gonorrhea "superbug" going around, which is reportedly resisting the usual meds.

Leave an STD untreated too long, though, and it could lead to "chronic pain and severe reproductive health complications, such as infertility and ectopic pregnancy," according to federal health officials. Your baby could also pick up your infection during the birthing process or in infancy, which can be fatal.

Now that you're thoroughly spooked: Below is a ranking of all NYC's neighborhoods in order of their STD infection rates for 2016. (No. 1 having the highest rate and No. 42 having the lowest.)

Stay vigilant out there, kiddos. And for all our sakes: Go get tested.

Female Chlamydia

1. Crotona/Tremont, The Bronx
2. Mott Haven/Hunts Point, The Bronx
3. Morrisania/High Bridge, The Bronx
4. East New York, Brooklyn
5. Prospect Heights/Crown Heights/Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn
6. Fordham/Bronx Park, The Bronx
7. Harlem, Manhattan
8. East Harlem, Manhattan
9. Northeast Bronx
10. East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn
11. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens/Flatbush/East Flatbush/Midwood, Brooklyn
12. Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan
13. Jamaica, Queens
14. Pelham/Throggs Neck, The Bronx
15. Rockaway, Queens
16. Canarsie/Flatlands/Bergen Beach/Marine Park, Brooklyn
17. Port Richmond, Staten Island
18. Southeast Queens
19. East Village/Lower East Side/Chinatown, Manhattan
20. Chelsea/Midtown/Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
21. Sunset Park, Brooklyn
22. West Queens
23. Stapleton/St. George, Staten Island
24. Southwest Queens
25. Tribeca/Financial District, Manhattan
26. Kingsbridge/Riverdale, The Bronx
27. Greenwich Village/West Village/Soho, Manhattan
28. Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO/Red Hook/Park Slope/Gowanus/Fort Greene/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
29. Gramercy Park/Murray Hill/Kips Bay/Midtown East, Manhattan
30. Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn
31. Astoria/Long Island City, Queens
32. Flushing/Clearview, Queens
33. Coney Island/Sheepshead Bay/Brighton Beach/Gravesend, Brooklyn
34. Upper West Side, Manhattan
    
35. Ridgewood/Forest Hills, Queens
36. Fresh Meadows, Queens
37. Upper East Side, Manhattan
38. Windsor Terrace/Kensington/Borough Park, Brooklyn
39. Bensonhurst/Bay Ridge/Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
40. Willowbrook, Staten Island
41. South Beach/Tottenville, Staten Island
42. Bayside/Little Neck, Queens

Male Chlamydia

1. Chelsea/Midtown/Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
2. Harlem, Manhattan
3. Prospect Heights/Crown Heights/Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn
4. East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn
5. East Harlem, Manhattan
6. Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan
7. Crotona/Tremont, The Bronx
8. Greenwich Village/West Village/Soho, Manhattan
9. East New York, Brooklyn
10. Mott Haven/Hunts Point, The Bronx
11. Morrisania/High Bridge, The Bronx
12. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens/Flatbush/East Flatbush/Midwood, Brooklyn
13. Northeast Bronx
14. Fordham/Bronx Park, The Bronx
15. East Village/Lower East Side/Chinatown, Manhattan
16. Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn
17. Tribeca/Financial District, Manhattan
18. Gramercy Park/Murray Hill/Kips Bay/Midtown East, Manhattan
19. Jamaica, Queens
20. Canarsie/Flatlands/Bergen Beach/Marine Park, Brooklyn
21. Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO/Red Hook/Park Slope/Gowanus/Fort Greene/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
22. Astoria/Long Island City, Queens
23. Pelham/Throggs Neck, The Bronx
24. Southeast Queens
25. Rockaway, Queens
26. Upper West Side, Manhattan
27. West Queens
28. Port Richmond, Staten Island
29. Stapleton/St. George, Staten Island
30. Upper East Side, Manhattan
31. Kingsbridge/Riverdale, The Bronx
32. Southwest Queens
33. Sunset Park, Brooklyn
34. Ridgewood/Forest Hills, Queens
35. Flushing/Clearview, Queens
36. Coney Island/Sheepshead Bay/Brighton Beach/Gravesend, Brooklyn
37. Fresh Meadows, Queens
38. Bayside/Little Neck, Queens
39. Windsor Terrace/Kensington/Borough Park, Brooklyn
40. Bensonhurst/Bay Ridge/Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
41. Willowbrook, Staten Island
42. South Beach/Tottenville, Staten Island

Female Gonorrhea

1. Crotona/Tremont, The Bronx
2. Prospect Heights/Crown Heights/Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn
3. East New York, Brooklyn
4. Harlem, Manhattan
5. Morrisania/High Bridge, The Bronx
6. Mott Haven/Hunts Point, The Bronx
7. East Harlem, Manhattan
8. Northeast Bronx
9. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens/Flatbush/East Flatbush/Midwood, Brooklyn
10. East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn
11. Fordham/Bronx Park, The Bronx
12. Jamaica, Queens
13. Rockaway, Queens
14. Canarsie/Flatlands/Bergen Beach/Marine Park, Brooklyn
15. Pelham/Throggs Neck, The Bronx
16. Southeast Queens
17. Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO/Red Hook/Park Slope/Gowanus/Fort Greene/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
18. East Village/Lower East Side/Chinatown, Manhattan
19. Stapleton/St. George, Staten Island
20. Port Richmond, Staten Island
21. Chelsea/Midtown/Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
22. Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan
23. Gramercy Park/Murray Hill/Kips Bay/Midtown East, Manhattan
24. Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn
25. Southwest Queens
26. West Queens
27. Kingsbridge/Riverdale, The Bronx
28. Astoria/Long Island City, Queens
29. Tribeca/Financial District, Manhattan
30. Fresh Meadows, Queens
31. Greenwich Village/West Village/Soho, Manhattan
32. Coney Island/Sheepshead Bay/Brighton Beach/Gravesend, Brooklyn
33. Upper West Side, Manhattan
34. Sunset Park, Brooklyn
35. Flushing/Clearview, Queens
36. Upper East Side, Manhattan
37. Ridgewood/Forest Hills, Queens
38. Windsor Terrace/Kensington/Borough Park, Brooklyn
39. Bensonhurst/Bay Ridge/Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
40. South Beach/Tottenville, Staten Island
41. Willowbrook, Staten Island
42. Bayside/Little Neck, Queens

Male Gonorrhea

1. Chelsea/Midtown/Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
2. Harlem, Manhattan
3. East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn
4. Prospect Heights/Crown Heights/Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn
5. Washington Heights/Inwood, Manhattan
6. Greenwich Village/West Village/Soho, Manhattan
7. East Harlem, Manhattan
8. Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Brooklyn
9. East Village/Lower East Side/Chinatown, Manhattan
10. East New York, Brooklyn
11. Crotona/Tremont, The Bronx
12. Morrisania/High Bridge, The Bronx
13. Mott Haven/Hunts Point, The Bronx
14. Gramercy Park/Murray Hill/Kips Bay/Midtown East, Manhattan
15. Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO/Red Hook/Park Slope/Gowanus/Fort Greene/Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, Brooklyn
16. Prospect-Lefferts Gardens/Flatbush/East Flatbush/Midwood, Brooklyn
17. Astoria/Long Island City, Queens
18. Tribeca/Financial District, Manhattan
19. Upper West Side, Manhattan
20. Fordham/Bronx Park, The Bronx
21. Northeast Bronx
22. Jamaica, Queens
23. Canarsie/Flatlands/Bergen Beach/Marine Park, Brooklyn
24. Pelham/Throggs Neck, The Bronx
25. Upper East Side, Manhattan
26. Rockaway, Queens
27. West Queens
28. Stapleton/St. George, Staten Island
29. Kingsbridge/Riverdale, The Bronx
30. Southeast Queens
31. Port Richmond, Staten Island
32. Ridgewood/Forest Hills, Queens
33. Southwest Queens
34. Sunset Park, Brooklyn
35. Coney Island/Sheepshead Bay/Brighton Beach/Gravesend, Brooklyn
36. Bensonhurst/Bay Ridge/Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
37. Windsor Terrace/Kensington/Borough Park, Brooklyn
38. Fresh Meadows, Queens
39. Flushing/Clearview, Queens
40. Willowbrook, Staten Island
41. Bayside/Little Neck, Queens
42. South Beach/Tottenville, Staten Island

Male Syphilis

This story has been updated. Images via NYC Health