6 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 6 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 6 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 6 Street name commercial noise than any other category, 145 of them, and cleanliness ranks 15 among numbered streets. Across every category, 333 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name commercial noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 129 reports, then damaged tree at 21. The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 742 homes on file, that is about 45 reports per 100 homes.
6 Street carries 6 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 39 violations on file. Pests follows at 29 violations. PLUTO counts 194 residential buildings and 742 homes on 6 Street, with 76 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on 6 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 68 among numbered streets and parking ranks 50. A 50 on parking places 6 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 57 and quietness at 50 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 82 and transit 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 6 Street is traffic safety, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 742 homes on file, 59 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 Brooklyn
- 7 Street, Brooklyn
- 10 Street, Brooklyn
- 4 Street, Brooklyn
- 12 Street, Brooklyn
- 3 Street, Brooklyn
- 1 Street, Brooklyn
6 Street runs through Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, 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).