N 6 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does N 6 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts N 6 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on North 6 Street, with 213 reports, and cleanliness ranks 19 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 640 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name residential noise. Vehicle noise is the next most-filed at 95 reports, then unsanitary condition at 79. The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, North 6 Street carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 14 Class C violations on North 6 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on North 6 Street is pests, at 26 violations. Structure follows at 19 violations, then bed bugs at 18. The housing file lists 83 residential buildings on North 6 Street holding 1,780 homes, with 37 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Reported crashes on North 6 Street have injured 12 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 83 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 25. That 25 on quietness puts North 6 Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 76 on the same scale, with housing at 67. The citywide frame puts transit at 89 and tree cover at 71. North 6 Street ranks 97 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
57% of the 1,780 homes recorded on North 6 Street are rent-stabilized, 1,008 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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N 6 Street runs through Williamsburg, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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