Glenmore Avenue & Sheffield Avenue

Glenmore Avenue and Sheffield Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School is 480 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about three minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, 11 of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
700 feet · 3 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
630 feet
Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av · B20, B83
Within a walk
16 places
11 religious buildings, 1 ambulance station and 4 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenmore Avenue & Sheffield Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 700 feet from this corner, about three minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    700 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. Van Siclen Av C
    0.4 miles
    C

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Pennsylvania Av/Pitkin Av, 630 feet away, for the B20 and B83.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B20 …
  2. B83 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Georgia Ave & Liberty Ave 12 docks in all
    700 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 mile
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    2.3 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more 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 June 2024.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, July 2021

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
47 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

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

Trees

NYC Parks records 51 trees within 330 feet.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and April 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Glenmore Avenue

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

South side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Sheffield Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-6PM

West side of Sheffield Avenue

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 6AM-6PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 11 religious buildings
  • 1 ambulance station
  • 1 career or business center
  • 1 garden
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    480 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    1,040 feet
  2. Grace Playground
    1,050 feet

Health care

  1. EMS Station 39 Ambulance station
    1,120 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    400 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. East New York Workforce1 Career Center Career or business center
    1,090 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    1,160 feet
  2. Shop Fair Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are five places to eat and five 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 Sheffield 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.