Glenwood Road & East 76th Street

Glenwood Road and East 76th Street meet at a three-way junction in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Glenwood Playground is 740 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd, is 380 feet away for the B47, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 14 public places, seven of them schools, and eight places to eat. About 400 homes stand within 820 feet, mostly built in 1960, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses.

Safety record
1 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.2 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
380 feet
Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd · B47
Within a walk
14 places
7 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 5 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenwood Road & East 76th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd, 380 feet away, for the B47.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd B47
    380 feet
    B47

Next buses at this stop

  1. B47 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 19 bicycle racks within 820 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Belt Parkway westbound at Shore Parkway, 2.2 miles by car along the streets.

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

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 1 person injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 1 of those hurt, on foot

The most recent crash recorded here was in August 2024.

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11236
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 18
City Council district
45 and 46 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
69
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Canarsie
Elevation
12 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 in 1960.

Trees

NYC Parks records 31 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between December 2019 and July 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 76th Street

  • Ambulettes only 1 sign AMBULETTE ONLY TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY 9AM-3PM
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 76th Street

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 4 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Fourteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 7 schools
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 community center
  • 1 library
  • 1 playground
  • 2 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Generation Health Career Institute, Trade or language school
    250 feet
  2. Canarsie Childhood Center Preschool
    450 feet
  3. Academy for Conservation and the Environment School
    960 feet
Show all 10
  1. Brooklyn Bridge Academy School
    960 feet
  2. Brooklyn Community High School for Excellence and Equity School
    960 feet
  3. Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
    960 feet
  4. Uncommon Preparatory CHS School
    960 feet
  5. Uncommon Preparatory Charter High School
    960 feet
  6. Victory Collegiate High School
    960 feet
  7. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,040 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Glenwood Playground
    740 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Paerdegat Library
    1,170 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Redwood House of worship
    260 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Glenwood Community Center
    1,200 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    950 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    1,310 feet
  3. Bravo Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

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

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk, a signal or safety change and 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:

See every intersection along East 76th Street or Glenwood Road.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, MTA, NYC DOT, 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.