6 Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 6 Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 6 Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (74) and tree cover (99). Housing (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 6 Avenue, with 1,423 reports. Across every category, 2,817 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (746 reports) and residential noise (234). Reports on 6 Avenue span 105 distinct 311 categories. About 61 reports per 100 homes sit on 6 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 6 Avenue carries 272 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 6 Avenue, 233 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (223 violations) and paint and lead (81). 927 residential buildings on 6 Avenue hold the 4,588 homes on file, 386 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 6 Avenue holds about 4.9 homes.
NYPD records 187 people injured in crashes on 6 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 64 among major corridors and cleanliness ranks 23. That 23 on cleanliness puts 6 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. The card also puts infrastructure at 46 and parking at 25 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, 6 Avenue ranks 90 on food nearby and 66 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 190 major corridors make up the band 6 Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
12% of the 4,588 homes recorded on 6 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 392 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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6 Avenue runs through Sunset Park, Park Slope and Bay Ridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).