Glenwood Road & East 19th Street

Glenwood Road and East 19th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. The corner lies inside the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District. Between 2021 and 2025, five police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn SDA Elementary School is 740 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave H, is about seven minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are three public places.

Safety record
3 hurt
5 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave H
0.3 miles · 7 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
370 feet
Ocean Av/Glenwood Rd · B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
Within a walk
3 places
1 playground, 1 religious building and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenwood Road & East 19th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave H, 0.3 miles from this corner, about seven minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave H Q
    0.3 miles
    Q

Next trains at this station

Manhattan
1 line
  1. Q …
Southbound
1 line
  1. Q …

Also within a walk

  1. Newkirk Plaza B, Q
    0.4 miles
    B Q

The MTA's permanent art catalog lists “Brooklyn Bucolic” (2012) by Ed Kopel at the Ave H station.

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ocean Av/Glenwood Rd, 370 feet away, for the B49, BM1, BM3 and BM4.

  • 8 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ocean Av/Glenwood Rd B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
    370 feet
    B49 BM1 BM3 BM4

Next buses at this stop

  1. B49 …
  2. BM1 …
  3. BM3 …
  4. BM4 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 14 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Prospect Expressway westbound at Prospect Avenue & Prospect Expressway, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1261 Flatbush Avenue Gas station
    0.6 miles
  2. 1170 Ocean Avenue Charging for electric cars, eight Level 2 chargers
    0.3 miles
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 3 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in October 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11230
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 14
City Council district
45
Police precinct
70
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville
Elevation
23 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is 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 between 1924 and 1955.

Trees

NYC Parks records 90 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 39 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between February 2021 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

West side of East 19th Street

  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING WEDNESDAY 9:30AM-11AM

North side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

South side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

The corner stands in the Fiske Terrace-Midwood Park Historic District.

Within 820 feet, 319 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1906 and 1917.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Three public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 1 playground
  • 1 religious building
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn SDA Elementary School
    740 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hot Spot Tot Lot Playground
    1,150 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brooklyn Seven Day Adv Church House of worship
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there is one food store.

Not on record for this corner: a signal or safety change.

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along East 19th Street or Glenwood Road.

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