Glenwood Road & Avenue H

Glenwood Road and Avenue H meet at a five-way junction in Flatlands, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Glenwood development. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Bridge Academy is 1,280 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Glenwood Rd/E 58 St, is 50 feet away for the B6, and ten bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 15 public places, seven of them schools, and ten places to eat.

Safety record
1 hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.4 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
50 feet
Glenwood Rd/E 58 St · B6
Within a walk
15 places
7 schools, 3 religious buildings and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenwood Road & Avenue H Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Glenwood Rd/E 58 St, 50 feet away, for the B6.

  • 10 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Glenwood Rd/E 58 St B6
    50 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.4 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5828 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    1,190 feet
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three 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.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, June 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11234
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
63
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
13 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • Two of the streets are one-way

Homes

About 1,600 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up in 1948.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Glenwood development.

Trees

Sixteen trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 40 signs on these blocks
  • 10 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between January 2015 and February 2018, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Avenue H

  • Back-in parking only 5 signs BACK IN ANGLE PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING MONDAY-FRIDAY 8AM-4PM
  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Avenue H

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 11:30AM-1PM

East side of East 58th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 58th Street

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Glenwood Road

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fifteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 3 religious buildings
  • 1 library
  • 1 older adult center
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Generation Health Career Institute, Trade or language school
    960 feet
  2. Academy for Conservation and the Environment School
    1,280 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Academy School
    1,280 feet
Show all 8
  1. Brooklyn Community High School for Excellence and Equity School
    1,280 feet
  2. Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
    1,280 feet
  3. Uncommon Preparatory CHS School
    1,280 feet
  4. Uncommon Preparatory Charter High School
    1,280 feet
  5. Victory Collegiate High School
    1,280 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Fox Playground
    850 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Paerdegat Library
    440 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Redwood House of worship
    1,150 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 5701 Avenue H Older adult center
    330 feet
  2. Fox Playground Mini Pool Swimming pool
    890 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    900 feet
  2. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk and a designated landmark or historic district within 820 feet.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 10 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Avenue H, East 58th Street or Glenwood Road.

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