Ralph Avenue & Glenwood Road

Ralph Avenue and Glenwood Road meet at a four-way crossing in Flatlands, Brooklyn, at the edge of NYCHA's Glenwood development. Between 2021 and 2025, 37 police-reported crashes were recorded here, against a median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection. Academy for Conservation and the Environment is 620 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd, is 40 feet away for the B47. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, seven of them schools, and six places to eat.

Safety record
27 hurt
37 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Belt Parkway
2.3 miles by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
40 feet
Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd · B47
Within a walk
16 places
7 schools, 2 day care or pre-K sites and 6 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Ralph Avenue & Glenwood Road Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd, 40 feet away, for the B47.

  • 6 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Ralph Av/Glenwood Rd B47
    40 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, 2.3 miles by car along the streets.

  1. 5828 Flatlands Avenue Gas station
    0.3 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 37 crashes at this corner, more than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner.

  • 27 people injured
  • 0 people killed
  • 5 of those hurt, on foot
  • 1 of those hurt, on a bike

The most recent crash recorded here was in March 2026.

The city lists this corner as a Vision Zero priority intersection, a designation it applies to corners selected for attention on their injury record. It is not a record of work done.

What the city has done here

  • Leading pedestrian interval, June 2021

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
63 and 69 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Flatlands
Elevation
11 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,400 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 in 1948.

The corner stands at the edge of NYCHA's Glenwood development.

Trees

NYC Parks records 28 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

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

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between October 2016 and July 2021; the 12 rules shown are the first by street and side, and the sign on the street decides.

North side of Glenwood Road

  • Back-in parking only 3 signs BACK IN 90 DEG PARKING ONLY
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 11:30AM-1PM
  • No parking 2 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

South side of Glenwood Road

  • Metered parking 2 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 6 signs NO PARKING MONDAY 8:30AM-10AM
  • No parking 3 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

East side of Ralph Avenue

  • Metered parking 3 signs 2 HOUR METERED PARKING 9AM-7PM EXCEPT SUNDAY
  • No parking 1 sign NO PARKING ANYTIME
  • No parking 8 signs NO PARKING TUESDAY FRIDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM
  • No standing 5 signs NO STANDING SCHOOL DAYS 7AM-4PM

West side of Ralph Avenue

  • No parking 12 signs NO PARKING MONDAY THURSDAY MIDNIGHT-3AM

ParkNYC pay-by-cell zones: 318679 and 321572.

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

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

Schools and child care

  1. Generation Health Career Institute, Trade or language school
    310 feet
  2. Academy for Conservation and the Environment School
    620 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Academy School
    620 feet
Show all 10
  1. Brooklyn Community High School for Excellence and Equity School
    620 feet
  2. Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
    620 feet
  3. Uncommon Preparatory CHS School
    620 feet
  4. Uncommon Preparatory Charter High School
    620 feet
  5. Victory Collegiate High School
    620 feet
  6. Canarsie Childhood Center Preschool
    680 feet
  7. Yeled V' Yalda Early Childhood Center Preschool, ages 2 to 5
    1,130 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Glenwood Playground
    820 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Paerdegat Library
    830 feet

Houses of worship

  1. Young Israel of Redwood House of worship
    500 feet

Community centers and public services

  1. Older adult center at 5701 Avenue H Older adult center
    990 feet
  2. Glenwood Community Center
    1,280 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    600 feet
  2. CTown Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  3. Foodtown Supermarket
    0.3 miles

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are six places to eat and nine 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 of the 9 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Glenwood Road or Ralph Avenue.

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