6th Avenue & 74th Street

The three-way junction of 6th Avenue and 74th Street is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and is also named John J. DeMartini Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, two police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church is 640 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about ten minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and nine places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
2 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
0.5 miles · 10 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
340 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/6 Av · B4
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
6th Avenue & 74th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 0.5 miles from this corner, about ten minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St R
    0.5 miles
    R

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. R …
Bay Ridge
1 line
  1. R …

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Bay Ridge Pkwy/6 Av, 340 feet away, for the B4.

  • 5 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Bay Ridge Pkwy/6 Av B4
    340 feet
    B4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on 6th Avenue.

  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. 6 Ave & 74 St 12 docks in all
    150 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.5 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
    0.5 miles
  3. 1763 86th Street Fast charging for electric cars
    2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2022.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11209
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 10
City Council district
47
Police precinct
68
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Bay Ridge
Elevation
70 feet above sea level

This corner is also named John J. DeMartini Way, a co-naming enacted on May 5, 2004 (Local Law 8 of 2004).

The streets

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

Homes

About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1925.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on John J. DeMartini Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between April 2018 and December 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

West side of 6th Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of 74th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING FIRE ZONE

South side of 74th Street

  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Ralph A. Fabrizio School
    790 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    1,210 feet
  2. McKinley Park Playground
    1,280 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Bay Ridge United Presbyterian Church House of worship
    640 feet

Bank branches

  1. Apple Bank Bank branch
    990 feet
  2. Chase Bank branch
    1,180 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    1,280 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are nine places to eat and four food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 6th Avenue or 74th Street.

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