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Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village

Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village is a single large apartment complex on Manhattan's East Side, bounded by First Avenue, 23rd Street, Avenue C and 14th Street. Stuyvesant Town lies south of 20th Street and Peter Cooper Village north of it. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company built it in the 1940s; the first tenants moved in on August 1, 1947. It has 11,250 apartments in red-brick buildings set among lawns and paths on about 80 acres. Many units are rent regulated; about 6,200 were as of January 2023. The L train stops at First Avenue and 14th Street, at the complex's southwest corner, and Murphy Brothers Playground is at Avenue C and East 17th Street.

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village has 52 open HPD housing violations, 18 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 124 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 32nd most open violations of 33 neighborhoods in Manhattan.

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Open HPD violations
52
18 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
124
51 Class C · 32nd in Manhattan
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C18 · 35%Class B26 · 50%Class A8 · 15%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous51
  • Class B · hazardous48
  • Class A · non-hazardous24

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • 11,250 apartments
  • First tenants moved in on August 1, 1947
  • Built by MetLife; split at 20th Street into Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village
  • L train at First Avenue–14th Street, with elevator entrances at Avenue A

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Boundaries checked by testing MTA station coordinates and landmark points against the 2020 NTA polygon (NYC Open Data 9nt8-h7nd). Boundaries, 11,250 apartments, about 80 acres, first move-in date (August 1, 1947; corrected from 'first building opened') and 6,200 rent-regulated units as of January 2023 from Wikipedia; Wikipedia gives conflicting building counts, so none is stated. Avenue A elevator entrances (opened 2020) from Wikipedia (First Avenue station). Murphy Brothers Playground location (Ave C, FDR Dr, E 17 St) from the Parks Properties dataset; 'inside the complex' wording corrected.

Sources

  1. Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. First Avenue station (BMT Canarsie Line) (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. Parks Properties (dataset) · NYC Department of Parks and Recreation via NYC Open Data (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Subway Stations (dataset) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority via data.ny.gov (accessed October 12, 2026)

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“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.