Glenwood Road & East 45th Street

Glenwood Road and East 45th Street meet at a four-way crossing in East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, eight police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. P.S. 109 is 530 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Glenwood Rd/Albany Av, is 1,120 feet away for the B6, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, four of them religious buildings, and three places to eat.

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Glenwood Road & East 45th Street Nearby corners, linked

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Glenwood Rd/Albany Av, 1,120 feet away, for the B6.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Glenwood Rd/Albany Av B6
    1,120 feet
    B6

Next buses at this stop

  1. B6 …

Live arrivals

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Flatbush Avenue & Belt Parkway, 2.9 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 1527 Utica Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.6 miles
  3. 2143 Flatbush Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.4 miles

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

  • 7 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in September 2025.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11203
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 17
City Council district
45
Police precinct
67
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
East Flatbush-Farragut
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to two travel lanes
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 140 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, almost all of them in houses of one or two. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1945 and 1950.

Trees

Twenty trees recorded by NYC Parks stand within 330 feet; the most common is the common hackberry.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2017 and March 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 45th Street

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of East 45th Street

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

North side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • Truck loading only 2 signs TRUCK LOADING ONLY MONDAY-FRIDAY 7AM-5PM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 4 religious buildings
  • 1 playground
  • 1 school

Schools and child care

  1. P.S. 109 School
    530 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Chiarantano Playground
    820 feet

Pharmacies

  1. CVS Pharmacy
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are three places to eat and two 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, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.