6th Avenue & Bay Ridge Parkway

The four-way crossing of 6th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway is in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 18 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. McKinley Park is 920 feet away. The nearest subway, 77 St, is about eight minutes on foot, for the R. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and ten places to eat. About 1,100 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built between 1901 and 1925, almost all in houses of one or two.

Safety record
14 hurt
18 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
77 St
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · R
Nearest bus stop
90 feet
Bay Ridge Pkwy/6 Av · B4
Within a walk
5 places
2 religious buildings, 1 park and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
6th Avenue & Bay Ridge Parkway Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is 77 St, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  1. 77 St R
    0.4 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, 90 feet away, for the B4.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on 6th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway.

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

Nearest bike-share station

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

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Gowanus Expressway eastbound, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 18 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 13 people injured
  • 1 person killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot
  • 3 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Turn calming, October 2021

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
67 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

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 66 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between June 2019 and January 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of 6th Avenue

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

West side of 6th Avenue

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

North side of Bay Ridge Parkway

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM

South side of Bay Ridge Parkway

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 park
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Ralph A. Fabrizio School
    1,090 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. McKinley Park
    920 feet
  2. McKinley Park Playground
    980 feet

Houses of worship

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

Bank branches

  1. Chase Bank branch
    950 feet
  2. Apple Bank Bank branch
    1,030 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Food Emporium Supermarket
    980 feet
  2. Key Food Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are ten places to eat and seven food stores.

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

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, seven of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along 6th Avenue or Bay Ridge Parkway.

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