Ocean Avenue & Glenwood Road

Ocean Avenue and Glenwood Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, 17 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Brooklyn Seven Day Adv Church is 510 feet away, and Our Lady of Refuge Church is 1,230 feet away. The nearest subway, Ave H, is about eight minutes on foot, and two subway lines stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are seven public places, three of them religious buildings.

Safety record
19 hurt
17 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest subway
Ave H
0.4 miles · 8 min on foot · Q
Nearest bus stop
100 feet
Ocean Av/Glenwood Rd · B49, BM1, BM3, BM4
Within a walk
7 places
3 religious buildings, 3 schools and 1 more kind, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ocean Avenue & Glenwood Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Subway

The nearest subway station is Ave H, 0.4 miles from this corner, about eight minutes on foot.

  • 2 lines within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ave H Q
    0.4 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, 100 feet away, for the B49, BM1, BM3 and BM4.

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

Next buses at this stop

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

Live arrivals

Cycling

A signed bike route shared with traffic runs on Ocean Avenue.

  • 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
    500 feet
  3. 2699 Nostrand Avenue Fast charging for electric cars
    1.6 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 17 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 19 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 3 of those hurt, on foot
  • 2 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in November 2025.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, February 2018

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
22 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes

Homes

About 1,700 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 62 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the thornless honeylocust.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 46 signs on these blocks
  • 7 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between July 2019 and July 2021, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Glenwood Road

  • No parking 5 signs NO PARKING ANYTIME

East side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 19 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Ocean Avenue

  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 14 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY 8:30AM-10AM

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 195 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Colonial Revival, and mostly built between 1906 and 1918.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Seven public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 religious buildings
  • 3 schools
  • 1 playground

Schools and child care

  1. Brooklyn SDA Elementary School
    630 feet
  2. P.S. K315 School
    1,180 feet
  3. School of Science & Technology School
    1,180 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Hot Spot Tot Lot Playground
    820 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Brooklyn Seven Day Adv Church House of worship
    510 feet
  2. Nativity Church House of worship
    1,030 feet
  3. Our Lady of Refuge Church House of worship
    1,230 feet

Supermarkets

  1. CTown Supermarket
    0.5 miles
  2. Fine Fare Supermarket
    0.5 miles

Nearby corners

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

See every intersection along Glenwood Road or Ocean Avenue.

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