First Crown Heights ZIP Code Reaches 50-Percent Vaccination Rate

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — Though still lagging nearby Prospect Heights and Park Slope, Crown Heights is nearing the halfway mark for getting its residents vaccinated against the coronavirus, data shows.

The first of the four ZIP codes that span Crown Heights reached the 50-percent vaccination rate this week, meaning half of its adult residents have gotten at least the first of two shots against the coronavirus, city data shows.

Another, 11225, is nearing the marker with a 45 percent vaccine rate. The remaining two, 11233 and 11213, still hovered just above 30 percent as of Wednesday.

The vaccine rates come several weeks after the first Brooklyn ZIP codes — in mainly wealthier, majority-white neighborhoods — reached the 50-percent milestone, including nearby 11238 in Prospect Heights.

Prospect Heights had reached a 65-percent vaccination rate as of Wednesday.

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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.

Brooklyn in particular has consistently lagged behind the other boroughs in its vaccine rates. As of Wednesday, 44 percent of adult Brooklynites had gotten at least their first dose of the vaccine, compared to 49-percent citywide.

The highest vaccination rates continue to be in wealthy Manhattan ZIP codes, where the rate of those partially vaccinated is as high as 79 percent.

Here's a look at the rates for Crown Heights, as of Wednesday:

• 11216: Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)/Crown Heights (West)
  • Adults partially vaccinated: 23,087
  • Percent of adults partially vaccinated: 50%
  • Adults fully vaccinated: 13,731
  • Percent of adults fully vaccinated: 30%
• 11233: Bedford-Stuyvesant (East)/Ocean Hill-Brownsville
• Adults partially vaccinated: 18,191
• Percent of adults partially vaccinated: 32%
• Adults fully vaccinated: 11,625
• Percent of adults fully vaccinated: 20%
• 11213: Crown Heights (East)
  • Adults partially vaccinated: 16,261
  • Percent of adults partially vaccinated: 33%
  • Adults fully vaccinated: 10,438
  • Percent of adults fully vaccinated: 21%
• 11225: Crown Heights West/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
  • Adults partially vaccinated: 20,441
  • Percent of adults partially vaccinated: 45%
  • Adults fully vaccinated: 13,136
  • Percent of adults fully vaccinated: 29%