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Briar Hill & Newgate

Briar Hill Ave & Newgate Rd · Toronto, Ontario · Forest Hill North · Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence

Briar Hill & Newgate is a low-volume local intersection. It sits in Forest Hill North. It has parks at the corner. Nearby: Glencairn Station (Line 1) 333 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
659
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 27, 2020
69 pedestrians · 22 cyclists
Collisions
1
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 1 property damage · #5484 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window · 1 before 2016
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Glencairn Station 333 m · 8 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 80 vehicles an hour, 7% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 10 vehicles, in line with the citywide pattern. Cyclists were 3.3% of vehicle volume, about 4.3× the typical share. On average 0.1 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Briar Hill & Newgate

Getting here

Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk

Transit & cycling

Subway
Glencairn Station (Line 1)333 m; Cedarvale Station (Line 1, Line 5)558 m; Oakwood Station (Line 5)1 km
TTC bus
10916414349063733 nearest 350 m
Blue Night
334363307
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Viewmount Park 201 m · 15 docks · 5 stations, 79 docks within 1 km

Straight-line distances to the nearest stop or station entrance in each agency's current schedule feed, including temporary diversions.

Within walking distance 1.5 km

Schools (22)
  • West Preparatory Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 513 m
  • Sts Cosmas and Damian Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 552 m
  • The Village Shul Synagogue & Supplmentary SchoolPrivate · 808 m
  • Glen Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 864 m
  • Torah Emeth Jewish Centre & Eitz Chaim Hebrew SchoolPrivate · 915 m
  • Eitz Chaim School (Bathurst)Private · 927 m
  • and 16 more
Community centres
Parks (24)
  • Newgate Parkette24 m
  • Benner Park248 m
  • Nicol Macnicol Parkette437 m
  • Wembley Parkette754 m
  • Glengrove Ave Park776 m
  • Ben Nobleman Park819 m
  • and 18 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Maria A. Shchuka branch1.3 km
  • Toronto Public Library Forest Hill branch1.4 km

Around the corner

Food premises, public washrooms, child care and emergency services — distances are straight-line from the node

Restaurants & food

No restaurant or café sits within 300 m of the corner; 62 eating places are within a kilometre. The nearest is Chalkers Sports Bar and Grill, 342 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in July 2026.

Restaurants & cafés0 within 300 m · 62 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 14 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Chalkers Sports Bar and Grill · 247 Marlee Ave Flr-2342 mPassed, Jul 2026
Sobeys · 145 Marlee Avegrocery367 mPassed, Jan 2026
Mini Mart · 838 Roselawn Ave375 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Zito's Market Place · 210 Marlee Avegrocery385 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Julsam Variety · 256 Marlee Avegrocery397 mPassed, Aug 2025
Aroma Indian Bistro · 349 Marlee Ave407 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
R Bakery Cafe · 326 Marlee Avegrocery432 mPassed, Jun 2026
Domino's · 377 Marlee Ave433 mPassed, Jan 2026

Every establishment Toronto Public Health inspects under DineSafe, screened by name to leave out kitchens inside schools, care homes and offices. A conditional pass means infractions had to be fixed by a follow-up visit, not that the premises is closed.

Washrooms & water

The nearest public washroom is Viewmount Community Centre Washroom, 215 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 173 m away at Viewmount Park.

  • Viewmount Community Centre Washroom · 169 Viewmount Ave
    View centre hours
    215 m
Drinking water
Viewmount Park bottle filling station · 173 m; Viewmount Park drinking fountain · 232 m

Park washrooms, washrooms in City buildings and automated street toilets, with hours and status as the City publishes them (park washrooms are seasonal). Malls, shops and TTC stations are not included.

Child care

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 813 spaces; four accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Macaulay - Marlee Child Care Centre (367 m, 49 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km10 centres · 813 spaces
Fee subsidy4 of 10
  • Macaulay - Marlee Child Care Centre · 145 Marlee Ave
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    367 m
  • West Prep Children's Centre of Toronto · 70 Ridge Hill Dr
    159 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    513 m
  • Plasp Sts. Cosmas and Damian C.s · 111 Danesbury Ave
    43 spaces · kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    552 m
  • Gan Sameach · 585 Glengrove Ave
    24 spaces · preschool · $10-a-day
    771 m

Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 341 (1.3 km), the nearest police station 13 Division (814 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.7 km away.

FireFire Station 341 · 1.3 km555 Oakwood Ave
Police13 Division · 814 m1435 Eglinton Avenue West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 18 · 1.7 km643 Eglinton Ave W

Nearest station by straight line — not a response time, and not necessarily the station that would answer a call.

Apartment buildings nearby

RentSafeTO-registered rental buildings within 1 km, with the City's latest evaluation score

40 registered apartment buildings with 3,275 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, two of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 111 Ridelle Ave (187 m, 139 units, 18 storeys, built 1967), which scored 96 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 67 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 12 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings40 · 3,275 units · 2 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202667 across the 40
Open fire-code violations12
Tallest28 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
111 Ridelle Ave · Dms Property Management Limited13918196796 · Aug 20263187 m
370 Ridelle Ave · Greenwin Corp.21428196584 · Dec 20255260 m
377 Ridelle Ave · Dms Property Management Limited23118196797 · Jul 20253268 m
140 Elm Ridge Dr · Dms Property Management Limited22918196789 · Nov 20259 · 7 fire269 m
141 Lyon Crt · Dms Property Management Limited14218196793 · Oct 20253298 m
822 Roselawn Ave · Linwood Management Corporation569196098 · Jul 20261332 m
145 Elm Ridge DrToronto Community Housing · TCH539198590 · Nov 20250339 m
131 Lyon Crt · 2806275 Ontario Inc.264195883 · Jul 20260342 m

The City's RentSafeTO register — rental apartment buildings of three or more storeys and ten or more units — with the score from each building's latest City evaluation (out of 100; poor scores trigger a full audit). LTB orders are final Landlord and Tenant Board orders naming the address (Jan 2026 – Jun 2026); fire-code violations are open items in Toronto Fire Services' inspection data. Each building links to its full record on LandlordReport. Condominiums and houses are not registered.

Parking

Every mapped lot within 2 km, Green P with peak occupancy, City EV charging and bike parking

All parking lots629 lots · ≈32,530 spaces · 97.6 ha
Within 500 m33 lots · ≈1,000 spaces
Green P (public)6 car parks · about 302 spaces
EV charging (City)168 Chiltern Hill Rd · 1 km · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parkingnone recorded nearby
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
995 Eglinton Ave W · Surface855 m3342% (Q1 2026)
1531 Eglinton Ave W · Surface921 m2041% (Q1 2026)
912 Eglinton Ave W · Surface1 km2662% (Q1 2026)
168 Chiltern Hill Rd · Garage1 km6834% (Q1 2026)
9 Shortt St · Surface1.6 km13827% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 136 m away, ≈68 spaces; 188 m away, ≈18 spaces; 194 m away, ≈119 spaces; 224 m away, ≈26 spaces; 252 m away, ≈80 spaces; 254 m away, ≈13 spaces.

Lot count and area from the City's topographic mapping of parking-lot footprints (every visible surface lot, public or private); spaces are estimated at one per 30 m² of lot. Lots not run by Green P are private, commercial or institutional and may be for customers or residents only. Green P spaces and average daily peak occupancy from the Toronto Parking Authority's quarterly dataset (* = capacity from the 2019 car-park list; rates are not shown because that list is stale — check Green P). EV chargers are City-operated only; on-street and underground parking are not included.

Traffic volume

The City's latest turning-movement count — 8-hour, Oct 27, 2020

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The east leg carries the load — 357 westbound vehicles, or 54% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 18. The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 122 vehicles in the hour from 8:00 a.m. and 122 from 4:00 p.m. Trucks and buses were 10.3% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 6 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2020, not today's volume. It was an 8-hour count, which is not directly comparable with the 14-hour counts the City has used since September 2023.

From the north18southbound · 6 bikes · 55.6% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 13 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles65969 pedestrians · 22 cyclists · 10.3% heavy
From the east357westbound · 2 bikes · 10.1% heavy
From the south284northbound · 1 bikes · 7.7% heavy
AM peak hour122 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour122 vehicles from 4:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 27, 2020

Approach figures are vehicles entering the intersection from that leg over the whole count. A count is one day's traffic, not an annual average; the City recounts on an ad-hoc schedule.

How fast traffic moves here

Midblock speed counts on the intersection's streets, the nearest school-zone speed sign, and traffic calming

The City's counter on Briar Hill Ave between Marwood Crt and Newgate Rd (73 m away) recorded an average of 38 km/h in its 24-hour count in January 2020; 85% of drivers were at or under 45 km/h. That segment carries about 1,200 vehicles a day. Newgate Rd between Ridelle Ave and Briar Hill Ave measured slower: 33 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 39 km/h (Jan 2020). The reading is 6 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Newgate Rd · Ridelle Ave – Briar Hill Ave · 43 mJan 2020 · 24 h1,26633 km/h39 km/h42 km/h
Briar Hill Ave · Marwood Crt – Newgate Rd · 73 mJan 2020 · 24 h1,20338 km/h45 km/h50 km/h

Midblock counts are automatic counters laid across the road for one to seven days; the 85th-percentile speed is the figure engineers use — 85% of drivers were at or below it. Counts are ad hoc, so some are years old. A midblock reading is not the speed through the intersection itself, and posted limits are not in the count data.

All police-reported collisions

Every collision reported to Toronto Police within 65 m, any severity, 2016–2025

The peak year was 2025, the most recent in the window, with 1 collision. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Nov 4, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions1#5484 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only1
Fail to remain0
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
All since 20141latest Nov 4, 2025

Source: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data — every collision reported to police since 2014, within 65 m of this node. Records through Jun 30, 2026.

Killed or seriously injured

Collisions in which someone died or was seriously injured, within 65 m, 2016–2025 — the basis of the danger rankings

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Jun 5, 2006.

KSI = killed or seriously injured. A collision is counted if its recorded location is within 65 m of this intersection's centreline node, whether the police coded it as intersection-related or mid-block. Records can lag a year or more, so the current year is excluded from rankings.

Thefts reported at this corner

Thefts from vehicles and bicycle thefts that Toronto Police have offset to this intersection, 2016–2025

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle320house driveway/garage (2), other (1)
Bicycle theft220house driveway/garage (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 19, 2025. Police offset every occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing, so these are thefts on the streets and premises around this node, not necessarily at the corner itself. Other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see Forest Hill North.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Briar Hill & Newgate a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 1 lesser collision. High counts usually track high traffic volume rather than a design flaw; volume is shown alongside so the numbers can be read in context.

How busy is Briar Hill & Newgate?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 27, 2020, 7% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Briar Hill & Newgate?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Briar Hill Ave between Marwood Crt and Newgate Rd (January 2020), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 45 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Briar Hill & Newgate?

The nearest Green P car park is 995 Eglinton Ave W (855 m away, 33 spaces, 42% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 629 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 32,530 spaces — 33 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 168 Chiltern Hill Rd (1.0 km).

How do I get to Briar Hill & Newgate by transit?

Glencairn Station (Line 1) is 333 m away; bus routes 109, 164, 14, 34, 90, 63, 7, 33 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Briar Hill & Newgate?

None within 300 m, and 62 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Chalkers Sports Bar and Grill (342 m), Mini Mart (375 m), Aroma Indian Bistro (407 m) and Domino's (433 m). Each one's latest inspection result is shown on this page; DineSafe does not record cuisine or opening hours.

Is there a public washroom near Briar Hill & Newgate?

The nearest is Viewmount Community Centre Washroom, 169 Viewmount Ave, 215 m away (View centre hours). These are the City's own washrooms — in parks, civic buildings and automated street toilets — not those in malls, coffee shops or TTC stations.

Is there child care near Briar Hill & Newgate?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 813 spaces in total; 4 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Macaulay - Marlee Child Care Centre (367 m, 49 spaces), West Prep Children's Centre of Toronto (513 m, 159 spaces) and Plasp Sts. Cosmas and Damian C.s (552 m, 43 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Briar Hill & Newgate?

40 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,275 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 111 Ridelle Ave (187 m, 139 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 370 Ridelle Ave (260 m, 214 units, RentSafeTO score 84), 377 Ridelle Ave (268 m, 231 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 140 Elm Ridge Dr (269 m, 229 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 40 is 92 out of 100. Condos and houses are not on the City's register. Each building's full record — score history, LTB orders, fire-code inspections, permits — is on LandlordReport.

How many thefts are reported at Briar Hill & Newgate?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and two bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025. Police offset every reported occurrence to the nearest intersection before publishing it, so the count covers the streets, driveways and parking around this corner rather than the corner itself. Break-ins, robberies and other offences are published by neighbourhood only — see the Forest Hill North page.

What neighbourhood is Briar Hill & Newgate in?

Briar Hill & Newgate is in Forest Hill North (City of Toronto neighbourhood 102). It is in Ward 8, Eglinton-Lawrence, represented by Councillor Mike Colle.

Sources

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