W 6 Street, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does W 6 Street in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 6 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (81) and transit (83). Parking (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 6 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 422 of them, and parking ranks 15 among numbered streets. Across every category, 904 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 99 reports, then residential noise at 31. The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on West 6 Street, counting every category.
West 6 Street carries 20 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 47 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests, at 43 violations. 427 residential buildings on West 6 Street hold the 1,408 homes on file, 127 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
NYPD records 52 people injured in crashes on West 6 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 79 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 43. West 6 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 76 and housing at 74 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 81 and food nearby 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 6 Street, at 83. West 6 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 6 Street is cleanliness, at 81.
25% of the 1,408 homes recorded on West 6 Street are rent-stabilized, 355 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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W 6 Street runs through Gravesend, Coney Island and Bensonhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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