Crown Heights ZIP Code Placed On Watch List as COVID Rates Climb
by CrownHeights.info
11213, the Crown Heights ZIP code that covers a large portion of Crown Heights has been placed on the states watch list as COVID positivity rates climbed above 2% Wednesday.
The 2.3% positivity rate for 11213 was an alarming 0.3% increase just days after Yom Kippur.
As of Wednesday, the state continues to singe out only ten ZIP codes as having clusters above the 3% threshold.
Those include:
- Edgemere/Far Rockaway (11691): 4.74%
- Gravesend/Homerest (11223): 6.9%
- Midwood (11230): 5.62%
- Borough Park (11219): 6.51%
- Bensonhurst/Mapleton (11204): 6.31%
- Gerritsen Beach/Homecrest/ Sheepshead Bay (11229): 4.13%
- Flatlands/Midwood (11210): 4.66%
- Kew Gardens (11415): 3.29%
- Kew Gardens Hills/Pomonok (11367): 3.68%
- Fresh Meadows/Hillcrest (11366): 3.08%
Seven other ZIP codes have been placed on a “watch list,” as they show alarming increases, but remain below 3%.
Those include:
- East Williamsburg/ Williamsburg (11211/ 11249): 2.06%
- Bedford-Stuyvesant (West)/Clinton Hill/Fort Greene (11205): 2.07%
- Kensington/Windsor Terrace (11218): 2.79%
- Brighton Beach/Manhattan Beach/Sheepshead Bay (11235): 2.97%
- Crown Heights (East) (11213): 2.30%
- Rego Park (11374): 2.66%
- Hillcrest/Jamaica Estates/Jamaica Hills (11432): 2.69%