6th Avenue & 56th Street

The four-way crossing of 6th Avenue and 56th Street is in Sunset Park (Central), Brooklyn, and is also named Subhi Widdi Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, ten police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Rainbow Playground is 50 feet away. The nearest subway, 53 St, is about nine minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, six of them religious buildings, and 37 places to eat.

Safety record
4 hurt
10 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
53 St
0.4 miles · 9 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
890 feet
5 Av/56 St · B63
Within a walk
16 places
6 religious buildings, 4 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
6th Avenue & 56th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 53 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about nine minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. 53 St R
    0.4 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Southbound
1 line
  1. R …

Also within a walk

  1. 59 St N, R
    0.4 miles
    N R
  2. 8 Av N
    0.5 miles
    N

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Untitled” (2017) by Mickalene Thomas at the 53 St station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is 5 Av/56 St, 890 feet away, for the B63.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. 5 Av/56 St B63
    890 feet
    B63

Next buses at this stop

  1. B63 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 29 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 5 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 Ave & 55 St 19 docks in all
    270 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway westbound at 7th Avenue, 0.7 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 605 65th Street Gas station
    0.5 miles
  2. 6401 6th Avenue Charging for electric cars, two Level 2 chargers
    0.4 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2.7 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported ten crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 4 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in April 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2019
  • Turn calming, July 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11220
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 7
City Council district
38 and 43 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
72
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Sunset Park (Central)
Elevation
132 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Subhi Widdi Way, a co-naming enacted on December 30, 2013 (Local Law 154 of 2013).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 2,200 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1906 and 1924.

Trees

NYC Parks records 68 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Subhi Widdi Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 35 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of 56th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

South side of 56th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

East side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING FRIDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING THURSDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 4 day care or pre-K sites
  • 2 schools
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Bumblebees-R-Us Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    340 feet
  2. Sunset Park Early Childhood Development Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    830 feet
  3. Leep Dual Language Academy Charter School
    1,270 feet
Show all 7
  1. Brooklyn Elite Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,230 feet
  2. Franklin Career Institute Trade or language school
    1,270 feet
  3. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School
    1,280 feet
  4. District 20 Pre-K Center at 550 59th Street Pre-K center
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Rainbow Playground
    50 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Iglesia Emmanuel Piedra Viva Iglesia Church House of worship
    1,030 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Bay Ridge Post Office
    980 feet
  2. Older adult center at 545 60th Street Older adult center
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Pioneer Supermarkets Supermarket
    940 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. City Fresh Market Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 37 places to eat and 25 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 56th Street or 6th Avenue.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Records, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.