Bx6 bus

The Bx6 begins at Riverside Drive West and West 158th Street in the Audubon Park section of Washington Heights, Manhattan. It uses Riverside Drive to access Broadway and then West 155th Street, while buses heading to the terminus use West 157th Street and Riverside Drive West. Buses then continue on West 155th Street until it uses the Major Deegan Expressway service road and Jerome Avenue to access East 161st Street, while buses heading to Manhattan goes on West 155th Street from East 161st Street. It then continues on East 161st Street until it turns to Elton Avenue and then East 163rd Street, while buses heading to Manhattan use East 163rd Street and Washington Avenue to access Elton Avenue. It then continues on East 163rd Street until it turns to Rev J Polite, then East 163rd Street again, and goes on Hunts Point Avenue at Southern Boulevard, where some eastbound buses terminate. It then continues on the avenue for a length until it turns to Spofford Avenue and then Halleck Street, and uses the latter street and Food Center Drive to access the terminus at Hunts Point Cooperative Market, while buses heading to Manhattan uses Food Center Drive to access Halleck Street.^[2][3][4]

Both the Bx6 and Bx6 SBS operate out of the West Farms Depot.

Select Bus Service

See also: Select Bus Service

The Bx6 also employs Select Bus Service, the third in the Bronx and the 15th one in the whole city overall. It runs the same route as the Bx6 local, except that the eastbound SBS route follows the westbound local route instead of exiting the Macombs Dam Bridge to Jerome Avenue.

The Bx6 Select Bus Service is the first official SBS route to use CNG buses. It also does not run late nights.

Buses replaced 163rd Street Crosstown Line streetcars on October 25, 1947, operating as the Bx34.

In Fiscal Year 1963, this route was extended to directly serve industrial areas.^[5]

On February 14, 1965, the route was extended on mile from 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue to Riverside Drive and 157th Street via 155 Street, Broadway, and 157th Street.^[6]

The original southern terminus was at Halleck Street-East Bay Avenue. Service was partially extended to East Bay Avenue-Hunts Point Avenue in November 1967, and then to its current terminus in July 1974. It replaced the Bx15A on the same year, which ran between Norwood and Baychester.

On February 19, 1984, the entire Bronx bus system was revamped, with several routes renumbered, merged or eliminated.^[7] As part of the changes, the Bx34 was renumbered to the Bx6.^[8]

The former Bx34A rush hour-only shuttle service, running only within the eastern and western areas of Hunts Point, became part of the Bx6 in February 1984. The western branch of Hunts Point was eliminated in 1990, and was not replaced by another service until the Barreto Pool Shuttle (current Bx46) started serving the area in July 2008.

On December 20, 2023, a Washington Heights-bound Bx6 SBS was at Bruckner Boulevard just after 9pm when it collided with a city sanitation truck. Both drivers and ten passengers on the bus were all injured.^[14]

On December 15, 2025, another driver at age 63 was doing the Bx6 Local to Washington Heights when at Cauldwell Avenue, she activated the emergency brakes. This caused the bus to hit several cars before stopping near Washington Avenue. A minimum of 7 passengers were injured, as well as the driver.^[15]

In the evening of July 30, 2026, a Hunts Point-bound Bx6 bus crashed into a Bx5 bus at East 163rd Street and Hunts Point Avenue, leaving five passengers injured. One passenger got its leg caught between the seats and three were taken to a nearby hospital. All are expected to survive.^[16]