Glenwood Road & East 78th Street

Glenwood Road and East 78th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 11 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Young Israel of Redwood is 570 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Glenwood Rd/E 80 St, is 530 feet away for the B103 and BM2, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings, and 16 places to eat.

Safety record
12 hurt
11 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
530 feet
Glenwood Rd/E 80 St · B103, BM2
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 2 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenwood Road & East 78th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Glenwood Rd/E 80 St, 530 feet away, for the B103 and BM2.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Glenwood Rd/E 80 St B103, BM2
    530 feet
    B103 BM2

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM2 …

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, 2.1 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 7702 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.3 miles
  2. 5523 Glenwood Road Charging for electric cars, ten Level 2 chargers
    0.5 miles
  3. 1389 Rockaway Parkway Fast charging for electric cars
    1.1 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 11 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

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

The most recent crash recorded here was in December 2025.

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
13 feet above sea level

The streets

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

Homes

About 900 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, a mix of apartment buildings and smaller houses. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1960 and 1965.

Trees

NYC Parks records 42 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 32 signs on these blocks
  • 5 different rules
  • 1 active meter
  • 1 pay-by-cell zone

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2016 and February 2025, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 78th Street

  • No parking 9 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM

West side of East 78th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 10 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Glenwood Road

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

South side of Glenwood Road

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zone: 330834.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 2 day care or pre-K sites
  • 1 playground
  • 1 trade or language school

Schools and child care

  1. Canarsie Childhood Center Preschool
    630 feet
  2. Generation Health Career Institute, Trade or language school
    780 feet
  3. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,080 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Glenwood Playground
    1,130 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Redwood House of worship
    570 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    780 feet
  2. Bravo Supermarket
    1,070 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 16 places to eat and ten 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, five of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 78th Street or Glenwood Road.

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.