Cooper Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Cooper Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Cooper Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (83) and food nearby (89). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Cooper Street, with 258 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 604 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 85 reports, and residential noise with 60. In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cooper Street. Divided by the homes on file, Cooper Street carries roughly 76 reports per 100 of them.
Cooper Street carries 107 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cooper Street is doors, at 83 violations. Paint and lead follows at 38 violations, then pests at 32. The housing file lists 27 residential buildings on Cooper Street holding 797 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 30 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 71, with housing at 16. A 16 on housing places Cooper Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 39 and quietness at 26 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Cooper Street ranks 87 on transit and 53 on tree cover. Cooper Street ranks 89 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
63% of the 797 homes recorded on Cooper Street are rent-stabilized, 500 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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Cooper Street runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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