Cooper Street, Brooklyn: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does Cooper Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cooper Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (44) and transit (83). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Cooper Street. Reported crashes here have injured 45 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Cooper Street is led by illegal parking, with 122 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 20% of the 601 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 69 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 59. The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Cooper Street carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 35 Class C violations on Cooper Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cooper Street is pests, at 99 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (48 violations) and doors (25). The housing file lists 217 residential buildings on Cooper Street holding 688 homes, with 84 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.2 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 39 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 17. That 17 on parking puts Cooper Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 28 and housing at 23. Tree cover ranks 68 and food nearby 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Cooper Street ranks 83 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Cooper Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 44.
2% of the 688 homes recorded on Cooper Street are rent-stabilized, 12 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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