Glenwood Road & East 79th Street

Glenwood Road and East 79th Street meet at a four-way crossing in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, seven police-reported crashes were recorded here, the median for a Brooklyn corner. Young Israel of Redwood is 830 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Glenwood Rd/E 80 St, is 270 feet away for the B103 and BM2, and six bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are six public places, three of them religious buildings, and 13 places to eat.

Safety record
10 hurt
7 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.1 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
270 feet
Glenwood Rd/E 80 St · B103, BM2
Within a walk
6 places
3 religious buildings, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Glenwood Road & East 79th Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Glenwood Rd/E 80 St, 270 feet away, for the B103 and BM2.

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

Next buses at this stop

  1. B103 …
  2. BM2 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 11 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
    1,240 feet
  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 mile

Safety record

How crashes are counted

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

  • 10 people injured
  • 0 people killed

The most recent crash recorded here was in January 2026.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, April 2020

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
  • One of the streets is one-way

Homes

About 1,100 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 41 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 29 signs on these blocks
  • 6 different rules
  • 2 active meters
  • 2 pay-by-cell zones

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2018 and December 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

East side of East 79th Street

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

West side of East 79th Street

  • Metered parking 1 sign 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 11 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM

North side of Glenwood Road

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

South side of Glenwood Road

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

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 336920 and 341102.

Schools and places within a walk

How places are listed

Six public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Canarsie Childhood Center Preschool
    890 feet
  2. Generation Health Career Institute, Trade or language school
    1,040 feet
  3. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,310 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Redwood House of worship
    830 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Bravo Supermarket
    800 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    920 feet
  3. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 13 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 corners on foot, six of them within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along East 79th Street or Glenwood Road.

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