Coronavirus' Toll On Park Slope By The Numbers: 1 Year Later

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — The day the first coronavirus case in New York City was confirmed on March 1, 2020 may seem like another lifetime, but it was only a year ago as of Monday.

The anniversary of the first COVID-19 case provides a chance to reflect on the scope of the virus' toll in New York City, and in its neighborhoods.

Though the coronavirus likely arrived in New York in early February, the first person known to test positive for the virus in New York City was confirmed on March 1 in a 39-year-old health care worker who returned from a trip to Iran.

Not long after, New York City marked another grim milestone with the first coronavirus death, an 82-year-old woman with emphysema, on March 14.

A year later, Mayor Bill de Blasio has said it will become an annual "Day of Remembrance" for New Yorkers lost to the virus. New York City has lost more than 29,000 people since the pandemic began.

Park Slope was among the neighborhoods in New York City least hard-hit by the virus, which laid bare the city's inequity when it came to race and income. The neighborhood's 11215 ZIP code was third-to-last in New York City in terms of the number of cases per 100,000 people leading up to the year anniversary.

But that doesn't mean the neighborhood didn't feel the devastation of the pandemic.

More than 160 families in 11215 and nearby 11217 have lost a loved one to the pandemic since it began and more than 2,000 Park Slopers have come down with the virus.

Here's a look at the virus' toll in numbers in the neighborhood's ZIP codes:

11215

• 2,188 total cases
• 3,167 cases per 100,000 residents
• 60 deaths
• 86.18 deaths per 100,000 residents
• 5.48 percent of people tested who tested positive

11217

• 1,737 total cases
• 4,250 cases per 100,000 residents
• 96 deaths
• 235 deaths per 100,000 residents
• 7 percent of people tested who tested positive

Of course, numbers only tell part of the story.

Read more about how Park Slopers mourned loved ones, celebrated frontline heroes while staying painfully apart and watched as the unforgiving virus took hold of some of its most vulnerable neighbors in these links.