Glenmore Avenue & Williams Avenue

Glenmore Avenue and Williams Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East New York (North), Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 14 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Trey Whitfield School is 1,030 feet away. The nearest subway, Liberty Av, is about six minutes on foot, and four subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are ten public places, six of them religious buildings, and one place to eat. About 130 homes stand within 820 feet, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
5 hurt
14 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Liberty Av
0.3 miles · 6 min on foot · C
Nearest bus stop
1,040 feet
Liberty Av/Snediker Av · T426
Within a walk
10 places
6 religious buildings, 2 gardens and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenmore Avenue & Williams Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Liberty Av, 0.3 miles from this corner, about six minutes on foot.

  • 4 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av C
    0.3 miles
    C

Next trains at this station

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

Also within a walk

  1. Atlantic Av L
    0.3 miles
    L
  2. Sutter Av L
    0.4 miles
    L

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Liberty Av/Snediker Av, 1,040 feet away, for the T426.

  • 12 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Liberty Av/Snediker Av T426
    1,040 feet
    T426

Next buses at this stop

  1. T426 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

A marked bike lane runs on Williams Avenue.

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

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Hinsdale St & Glenmore Ave 12 docks in all
    290 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
    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 14 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 5 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Enhanced crossing, December 2016

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
49 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 130 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Trees

NYC Parks records 78 trees within 330 feet; the most common are the thornless honeylocust and the black locust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 24 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2017 and August 2022, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

South side of Glenmore Avenue

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

East side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 3AM-6AM

West side of Williams Avenue

  • No parking 7 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 3AM-6AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Ten public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 6 religious buildings
  • 2 gardens
  • 2 schools

Schools and child care

  1. Trey Whitfield School
    1,030 feet
  2. W. H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education High School
    1,260 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. TLC Sculpture Park Garden
    260 feet
  2. Williams Avenue Community Garden
    660 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Russian Orthodox Church House of worship
    1,170 feet

Supermarkets

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

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one place to eat and two 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 Williams Avenue.

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