East 6th Street & Avenue B

East 6th Street and Avenue B meet at a four-way crossing in the East Village, Manhattan. The corner is also named Donald Suggs Jr. Way by local law. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner. It is 40 feet to the 6th Street & Avenue B Garden, and Creative Little Garden is 280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Avenue A/E 5 St, is 850 feet away for the L92 and M14A SBS. Within a five-minute walk are 49 public places and 111 places to eat.

Safety record
5 hurt
8 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
FDR Drive
0.6 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
850 feet
Avenue A/E 5 St · L92, M14A SBS
Within a walk
49 places
21 gardens, 13 religious buildings and 9 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
East 6th Street & Avenue B Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Avenue A/E 5 St, 850 feet away, for the L92 and M14A SBS.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Avenue A/E 5 St L92, M14A SBS · Shelter
    850 feet
    L92 M14A SBS
    Shelter

Next buses at this stop

  1. L92 …
  2. M14A SBS …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 83 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 8 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. E 6 St & Ave B 95 docks in all
    70 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the FDR Drive northbound at FDR Drive & East Houston Street at E Houston Street Pedestrian Overpass, 0.6 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 55 8th Avenue Gas station
    1.8 miles
  2. 169 Ludlow Street Charging for electric cars, Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 107 Essex Street Fast charging for electric cars
    0.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported eight crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of ten crashes for a Manhattan corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, March 2020
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, October 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
10009
Community board
Manhattan Community Board 3
City Council district
2
Police precinct
9
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Village
Elevation
14 feet above sea level

This corner is also named Donald Suggs Jr. Way, a co-naming enacted on January 15, 2022 (Local Law 54 of 2022).

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • A posted limit of 20 mph
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 4,100 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1900 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 3 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 109 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

The Department of Records' Honorary Street Names dataset has its own note on Donald Suggs Jr. Way.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 37 signs on these blocks
  • 9 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2020 and June 2026, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Avenue B

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Avenue B

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

North side of East 6th Street

  • Loading only 2 signs LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-6PM
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

South side of East 6th Street

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING 8AM-6PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks, monuments and public art

How landmarks are placed

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet is one Individual Landmark, and two buildings in all are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded as High Victorian Gothic and Italianate, one each. They were built between 1848 and 1886.

  1. Tompkins Square Lodging House Designated landmark
    560 feet

Monuments and public art

The City's public art inventory lists two works near this corner, the nearest in Tompkins Square Park.

  1. Samuel Sullivan Cox Statue by Louise Lawson, 1891
    720 feet
  2. Temperance Fountain Fountain by Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1891
    800 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 49 public places.

  • 21 gardens
  • 13 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 2 listed historic places
  • 2 parks
  • 6 other places

Schools and child care

  1. New Amsterdam School
    330 feet
  2. Earth School
    340 feet
  3. P.S. 064 Robert Simon School
    340 feet
Show all 6
  1. Tompkins Square Middle School
    340 feet
  2. Bank Street College of Education Preschool, ages 2 to 5 · Pre-K
    700 feet
  3. Connelly Ctr Education/Holy Child MS School
    820 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. 6th Street & Avenue B Garden
    40 feet
  2. Creative Little Garden
    280 feet
  3. Tompkins Square Park
    280 feet
Show all 24
  1. 6BC Botanical Garden
    310 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Park Playground
    400 feet
  3. Clyde Romero Memorial Garden
    690 feet
  4. De Colores Community Yard & Cultural Center Garden
    770 feet
  5. Kenkeleba Memory Garden
    860 feet
  6. Miracle Garden
    870 feet
  7. Los Amigos Garden
    900 feet
  8. Garden of the Humanitarians Garden
    950 feet
  9. La Plaza Cultural-Armando Perez Garden
    980 feet
  10. Sage's Garden
    980 feet
  11. Carmen Pabon Del Amanecer Jardin Garden
    980 feet
  12. Brisas Del Caribe Garden
    1,050 feet
  13. Sam & Sadie Koenig Garden
    1,060 feet
  14. Earth People Garden
    1,090 feet
  15. El Jardin Del Paraiso Park
    1,140 feet
  16. Secret Garden
    1,140 feet
  17. La Casita Garden
    1,150 feet
  18. El Jardin del Paraiso Garden
    1,150 feet
  19. Firemen's Memorial Garden
    1,180 feet
  20. Hope Garden
    1,240 feet
  21. Peach Tree Garden
    1,290 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Christodora House Listed historic place
    880 feet
  2. Charlie Parker Residence Listed historic place
    920 feet
  3. Tompkins Square Library
    1,260 feet

Theaters, arts and venues

  1. Kenkeleba House Arts or cultural center
    980 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Brigid Church St Emeric House of worship
    430 feet
  2. Graffiti E 7 St Baptist Church House of worship
    570 feet
  3. Emmanuel Spanish Baptist Church House of worship
    620 feet
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  1. Citylight Church House of worship
    1,130 feet
  2. Christian Missionary Church House of worship
    1,150 feet
  3. Emmanuel Presbyterian Church House of worship
    1,210 feet
  4. St Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr RC Church House of worship
    1,250 feet
  5. Divino Maestro Pentecosta Church House of worship
    1,270 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Tompkins Square Park Mini Pool Swimming pool
    940 feet
  2. Tompkins Square Post Office
    1,240 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    1,250 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Duane Reade Pharmacy
    1,030 feet
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 111 places to eat and 16 food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue B or East 6th Street.

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, NYCHA, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Public Design Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.