Glenmore Avenue & New Jersey Avenue

Glenmore Avenue and New Jersey Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School is 330 feet away, and East New York Post Office is 1,140 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about three minutes on foot, and three subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 25 public places, 15 of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

Safety record
3 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
740 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
640 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
25 places
15 religious buildings, 5 schools and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenmore Avenue & New Jersey Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 740 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 3 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    740 feet
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Van Siclen Av C
    0.3 miles
    C
  2. Alabama Av J, Z
    0.5 miles
    J Z

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av, 640 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 18 bicycle racks within 820 feet, 2 of them on-street corrals
  • 3 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Pennsylvania Ave & Pitkin Ave 11 docks in all
    750 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Jackie Robinson Parkway eastbound at Jamaica Avenue & J Robinson Parkway, 0.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 43 Pennsylvania Avenue Gas station
    0.4 miles
  2. 492 Thomas Boyland Street Charging for electric cars, five Level 2 chargers
    1.1 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in February 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021
  • Accessible pedestrian signal, January 2026

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11207
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 5
City Council district
37 and 42 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
75
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East New York (North)
Elevation
43 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 700 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1905 and 1930.

Since 2014 at least 114 new affordable homes have been completed within 820 feet.

Trees

NYC Parks records 52 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the littleleaf linden.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 23 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and April 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

South side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

East side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8AM-9:30AM

West side of New Jersey Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8AM-9:30AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Within a five-minute walk there are 25 public places.

  • 15 religious buildings
  • 5 schools
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 garden
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    330 feet
  2. Achievement First Apollo Middle Charter School
    1,080 feet
  3. Achievement First East Brooklyn High School
    1,080 feet
Show all 6
  1. Bard High School Early College Brooklyn School
    1,080 feet
  2. J.H.S. 292 Margaret S. Douglas School
    1,080 feet
  3. Canarsie Children First Academy School-based preschool, ages 3 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,300 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Grace Playground
    510 feet
  2. East End Community Garden
    1,210 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    930 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    180 feet
  2. Second Calvary Baptist Church House of worship
    980 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Post Office
    1,140 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    600 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and eight food stores.

Not on record for this corner: 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 Glenmore Avenue or New Jersey Avenue.

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