| New York City's 6th City Council district | |
| Leader Title: | Councilmember |
| Leader Name: | Gale Brewer(D—Upper West Side) |
| Population As Of: | 2010 |
| Population Total: | 163820 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Footnotes: | Registered voters (2021) 148,461[2] |
| Demographics Type1: | Demographics |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 72% |
| Demographics1 Title1: | White |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 11% |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Hispanic |
| Demographics1 Info3: | 9% |
| Demographics1 Title3: | Asian |
| Demographics1 Info4: | 6% |
| Demographics1 Title4: | Black |
| Demographics1 Info5: | 2% |
| Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics Type2: | Registration |
| Demographics2 Info1: | 69.8% |
| Demographics2 Title1: | Democratic |
| Demographics2 Info2: | 8.7% |
| Demographics2 Title2: | Republican |
| Demographics2 Info3: | 18.6% |
| Demographics2 Title3: | No party preference |
New York City's 6th City Council district is one of 51 districts in the New York City Council. It is currently represented by Democrat Gale Brewer, who took office in 2022. Brewer previously represented the district from 2002-2013, and served as Borough President of Manhattan in between her two Council stints.[3]
District 6 is nearly coterminous with Manhattan's Upper West Side, also covering a small section of Hells Kitchen.[4] Central Park, Manhattan's largest park and the most visited urban park in the country, is located in the district, as is the lower half of Riverside Park.
The district overlaps with Manhattan Community Boards 4 and 7, and is contained entirely within New York's 10th congressional district. It also overlaps with the 27th, 29th, 30th, and 31st districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 67th, 69th, and 75th districts of the New York State Assembly.[5]
Due to redistricting and the 2020 changes to the New York City Charter, councilmembers elected during the 2021 and 2023 City Council elections will serve two-year terms, with full four-year terms resuming after the 2025 New York City Council elections.[6]
In 2019, voters in New York City approved Ballot Question 1, which implemented ranked-choice voting in all local elections. Under the new system, voters have the option to rank up to five candidates for every local office. Voters whose first-choice candidates fare poorly will have their votes redistributed to other candidates in their ranking until one candidate surpasses the 50 percent threshold. If one candidate surpasses 50 percent in first-choice votes, then ranked-choice tabulations will not occur.[7]