Glenmore Avenue & Alabama Avenue

Glenmore Avenue and Alabama Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, four police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. TLC Sculpture Park Garden is 520 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about five minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 11 public places, seven of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
4 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
1,210 feet · 5 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
1,150 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
11 places
7 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenmore Avenue & Alabama Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 1,210 feet from this corner, about five minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    1,210 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. C …
Outbound
1 line
  1. C …

Also within a walk

  1. Alabama Av J, Z
    0.4 miles
    J Z
  2. Atlantic Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av, 1,150 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av B20, B83
    1,150 feet
    B20 B83

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 4 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hinsdale St & Glenmore Ave 12 docks in all
    550 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.5 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 32 Jamaica Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    0.9 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.2 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported four 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 foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
48 feet above sea level

The streets

  • One travel lane
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 300 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1901 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 100 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 57 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the 'Triumph' elm and the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 25 signs on these blocks
  • 8 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and October 2017, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Alabama Avenue

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Eleven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    1,000 feet
  2. Trey Whitfield School
    1,290 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    520 feet
  2. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    920 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    920 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and three 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 12 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Alabama Avenue or Glenmore Avenue.

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