Minetta Lane, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Minetta Lane in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Minetta Lane in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and transit (100). Tree cover (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Minetta Lane name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 22 of them. Street condition is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. In all, 20 distinct 311 categories are represented on Minetta Lane.
The HPD file on Minetta Lane holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 79 homes in 6 residential buildings on Minetta Lane, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Minetta Lane have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, Minetta Lane ranks 89 on traffic safety and 19 on quietness. Minetta Lane sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 83 and infrastructure at 44. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 100 and tree cover at 13. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. Minetta Lane is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 79 homes on file, 2 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
- Minetta Street, Manhattan
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Minetta Lane runs through Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).