COVID-19 MORTALITY IN NEW YORK CITY ACROSS NEIGHBORHOODS BY RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIVITY STATUS

New York City has lost more lives from covid-19 than any other American city. This study examines variation in deaths across neighborhoods as it relates to the racial, ethnic, and nativity-status composition of neighborhoods. topic received little scholarly attention is imperative explore, given absence racial ethnic specific mortality rates by neighborhood. a racially ethnically segregated city, longstanding destination immigrants, making some susceptible greater levels others. Using ZCTA-level data on demographic Community Survey, our descriptive bivariate choropleth mapping analyses reveal that hierarchy exists geographic distribution mortality. Implications these findings are discussed they relate residential segregation persistent spatial inequalities faced color.