Glenwood Road & Albany Avenue

Glenwood Road and Albany Avenue meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 19 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. St Vincent Ferrer Church is 930 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Glenwood Rd/Albany Av, is 50 feet away for the B6, and four bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are five public places, two of them religious buildings, and five places to eat.

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Glenwood Road & Albany Avenue Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Glenwood Rd/Albany Av, 50 feet away, for the B6.

  • 4 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Glenwood Rd/Albany Av B6
    50 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 4102 Avenue H Gas station
    1,040 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 19 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 15 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 4 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in May 2026.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11210
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Farragut
Elevation
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes

Homes

About 400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1920 and 1929.

Trees

NYC Parks records 24 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between May 2016 and October 2024, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM

West side of Albany Avenue

  • No parking 13 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

North side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 1 sign NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 11AM-12:30PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Five public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 2 religious buildings
  • 1 day care or pre-K site
  • 1 park
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 198 Brooklyn School
    1,130 feet
  2. The Joan Snow Pre-K Center at 3610 Glenwood Road Pre-K center
    1,200 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Paerdegat Park
    890 feet

Houses of worship

  1. St Vincent Ferrer Church House of worship
    930 feet

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner:

  • A subway entrance within a ten-minute walk
  • A bike route here or a bicycle rack within 820 feet
  • A signal or safety change
  • A designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet

Nearby corners

The eight nearest corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Parks, NYC Health and NYS Agriculture and Markets, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.