Living in Stuyvesant Town: rent, commute and grades

Manhattan · Updated October 2026

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This guide also covers Peter Cooper Village, which shares Stuyvesant Town’s official city boundaries.

Rent in Stuyvesant Town

$2,723 a month

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

AOverall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

CWalkability
The average home has 4.2 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 96 places to eat or shop.
CFood and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 25 places to eat, 13 kinds of cuisine, 2.4 large grocery stores and 61 open storefronts.
C-Parks and green space
100% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 106 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 130 street trees within 300 m of the average home.
Residents: Residents get keycard access to playgrounds, courts and athletic fields, while the fountain and the Oval lawn are open to walk through. Resident, Feb 2025

ACommunity
27% of households moved in since 2018, 21% are roommates sharing a home, 31% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 20 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
BNightlife
About 17 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

ASafety
2.3 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (51 in all).
A+Quiet
12 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.
A+Building upkeep
0.7 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 2 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

Parks and green spaceResidents get keycard access to playgrounds, courts and athletic fields, while the fountain and the Oval lawn are open to walk through. Resident, Feb 2025

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The complex has lots of trees and feels a bit like a college campus.
Not a resident, Jan 2026

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourStuyvesant Town

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village are one large planned apartment complex. Stuyvesant Town is named for Peter Stuyvesant, whose farm covered the site in the 1600s, and Peter Cooper Village for Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Union. Source
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company built the complex from 1945 to 1947 as postwar housing for returning World War II veterans. Source
Demand was huge from the start: 7,000 applications came in on the first day and 100,000 by the time the first tenants, two World War II veterans and their families, moved in on August 1, 1947. Source
Under a 2015 deal made when Blackstone bought the complex, 5,000 apartments are kept affordable for middle-class tenants. Source
The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association, founded in 1971 and run by volunteers, calls itself the largest tenants association in the world. Source
Stuyvesant Cove Park runs along the East River from 18th to 23rd Street on the site of a former cement plant. Neighbors fought off a large development planned there in the 1980s, and the park was dedicated in June 2003. Source
NYC Ferry's Rockaway-Soundview route stops at Stuyvesant Cove, with boats north to East 34th Street, East 90th Street and Soundview in the Bronx, and south to Wall Street/Pier 11. Source