Upper East Side Coronavirus Rates Plummet To All-Time Lows: Data

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Coronavirus rates on the Upper East Side are at or near their lowest points since the city began releasing test data, continuing an encouraging trend that has coincided with the vaccine rollout.

In the two weeks between late May and early June, the percentage of COVID-19 tests that came back positive reached record lows in four of the Upper East Side's five ZIP codes. (The city began releasing ZIP code data last August.)

Remarkably, in the 10075 ZIP code, zero people tested positive out of the 700 that were tested between June 5-11. Positivity rates across the five ZIP codes ranged between 0 and 0.4 percent. (In early January, by comparison, they were between 3.78 and 5.24 percent.)

The neighborhood's low virus numbers cannot be separated from its high vaccination rates. As of Monday, between 63 and 75 percent of residents in each Upper East Side ZIP code were fully vaccinated, ranking it among the highest in the city.

The neighborhood with the highest COVID-19 positivity rate as of Monday was Hunts Point in the Bronx, where 2.7 percent of tests came back positive last week — still just a fraction of the sky-high numbers recorded during last winter's post-holiday surge.

The lowest vaccination rates, meanwhile, are in Cypress Hills/East New York, Brooklyn; Claremont/Morrisania and Edenwald/Wakefield in the Bronx; and Laurelton/Rosedale in Queens. Many of those are lower-income neighborhoods whose populations are predominantly African-American — the group that remains the city's least-vaccinated.

Here's the latest Upper East Side vaccine data:

• 10021 — Lenox Hill/Upper East Side: 69 percent first dose received, 64 percent fully vaccinated
• 10028 — Yorkville/Upper East Side: 68 percent first dose received, 63 percent fully vaccinated
• 10065 — Lenox Hill/Upper East Side: 74 percent first dose received, 68 percent fully vaccinated
• 10075 — Lenox Hill/Upper East Side: 82 percent first dose received, 75 percent fully vaccinated
• 10128 — Yorkville/Upper East Side: 71 percent first dose received, 65 percent fully vaccinated

Meanwhile, across the Upper East Side, just 13 people tested positive for COVID-19 out of 5,642 people tested between June 5–11.