Overdose deaths ticked down more than 2% in New York City last year, marking the first drop in fatalities in nearly a decade even as the opioid crisis has swept across poorer parts of the city, new data shows.

Figures released Monday by the Health Department show 1,444 people died in New York City from overdoses last year — with opioids linked to 80% of the fatalities.

“The decrease in drug overdose deaths is promising, but far too many New Yorkers are still dying,” said city Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot in a statement.

Health officials linked 868 deaths last year — 60% of all cases — to just one opioid drug: deadly, synthetic fentanyl, which has mixed into the city’s heroin supply with terrifying results.

The new Health Department stats show the crisis has hit the city’s poor precincts hardest with East Harlem, Crotona-Tremont and the Hunts Point-Mott Haven neighborhoods reporting the city’s highest fatal overdose rates in New York.

Both Brooklyn and Queens posted major drops in fatal overdoses last year. But those improvements were more than offset by growing numbers of cases in Manhattan and the Bronx.

All told, the Bronx’s 391 fatal overdoses last year were the most of any borough in the city and accounted for nearly one in three cases in the five boroughs.