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Brock & Florence

Brock Ave & Florence St · Toronto, Ontario · Little Portugal · Ward 9, Davenport

In Little Portugal, in central Toronto, Brock & Florence is a lightly travelled intersection, with a well-used cycling route through it. It has a bike lane and parks at the corner. Nearby: 14 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
2,067
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 13, 2021
180 pedestrians · 600 cyclists
Collisions
6
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 2 property damage · #4810 of 5,508
KSI collisions
0
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
none in the window
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
0
TTC stops within 100 m
5 streetcar routes · 3 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane, Sharrows, Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 260 vehicles, 22% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 11 vehicles, in line with the citywide pattern. Cyclists were 29.0% of vehicle volume, about 37× the typical share. That comes with about 0.6 reported collisions a year, 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Brock & Florence

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501505506504508 nearest 459 m
TTC bus
2947402 nearest 318 m
Express
929
Blue Night
301305306304329
Nearest stops
no surface stop within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane on Brock Ave installed 2014; Sharrows on Brock Ave installed 2014; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Florence St installed 2015
Bike Share
Mary McCormick Rec Centre (Sheridan Ave) 234 m · 15 docks · 30 stations, 500 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 (21)
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 345 m
  • Shirley St Jr & City View AlternativeEnglish Public · 406 m
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 412 m
  • Parkdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 671 m
  • Holy Family Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 744 m
  • St Helen Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 755 m
  • and 15 more
Parks (37)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch480 m
  • Toronto Public Library High Park branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 901 m
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1.4 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There is 1 restaurant, café or takeout within 300 m of the corner, and 298 eating places within a kilometre — 4.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is McCormick Park Cafe, 210 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in October 2024 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés1 within 300 m · 298 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience0 within 300 m · 57 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
McCormick Park Cafe · 66 Sheridan Ave210 mPassed, Oct 2024 · 1 infraction
450/ Rooms Coffee · 450 Dufferin St308 mPassed, Jul 2024 · 2 infractions
C.o.r.e. · 41 Alma Ave Flr-2nd Flr None314 mPassed, May 2026 · 1 infraction
Iren's Grocery · 528 Dufferin Stgrocery321 mPassed, Dec 2023
Honeys Ice Cream · 46 Noble St, Unit-107332 mPassed, Dec 2024
H-N Grocery Ltd. · 554 Dufferin Stgrocery355 mPassed, Dec 2023 · 1 infraction
G Mercato · 440 Dufferin St378 mPassed, Jul 2024
Bb's · 5 Brock Ave401 mPassed, Aug 2024

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 Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom, 224 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 136 m away at McCormick Park.

  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    224 m
  • Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
    View centre hours
    542 m
  • Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom · 289 Sorauren Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    789 m
Drinking water
McCormick Park bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 136 m; West Lodge Park drinking fountain · 353 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,049 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Parkdale Childcare Centre (345 m, 177 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km13 centres · 1,049 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 13
  • Parkdale Childcare Centre · 78 Seaforth Ave
    177 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    345 m
  • Shirley Street Jr YMCA · 38 Shirley St
    103 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    406 m
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA · 108 Gladstone Ave
    120 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    412 m
  • Holy Family Childcare Centre-Queen Victoria · 141 Close Ave
    25 spaces · school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    744 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (401 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (909 m) and the nearest ambulance station 480 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 401 m140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 909 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 480 m1288 Queen St 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

90 registered apartment buildings with 6,827 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 21 of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 3.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 103 West Lodge Ave (171 m, 371 units, 18 storeys, built 1965), which scored 85 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Three buildings of the 90 scored below 70; the average is 88, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 219 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 53 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings90 · 6,827 units · 21 social housing
RentSafeTO score88 average · 3 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026219 across the 90
Open fire-code violations53
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
103 West Lodge Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc.37118196585 · Jun 202517 · 9 fire171 m
105 West Lodge Ave · Hazelview Property Services Inc.37119196591 · Jul 202419 · 7 fire226 m
34 Noble St · Cogir Real Estate183193591 · Jun 20252357 m
410 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Services198102021100 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire362 m
22 O'Hara AveToronto Community Housing · TCH133191897 · Jul 20240399 m
15 O'Hara Ave · Kpm Kingsway Property Management324197091 · Jul 20241399 m
400 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Service15213202199 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire399 m
20 West Lodge AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation29911195991 · Jul 20246405 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 lots608 lots · ≈23,630 spaces · 70.9 ha
Within 500 m43 lots · ≈1,030 spaces
Green P (public)25 car parks · about 1,693 spaces
EV charging (City)1224 KING ST W · 866 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking5 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 8 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1325 Queen St W · Surface505 m3294% (Q1 2026)
14 Fuller Ave · Surface692 m4247% (Q1 2026)
9 Bonar Pl · Surface810 m3471% (Q1 2026)
45 Abell St · Garage902 m12460% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface916 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 54 m away, ≈42 spaces; 70 m away, ≈40 spaces; 92 m away, ≈19 spaces; 106 m away, ≈25 spaces; 149 m away, ≈12 spaces; 197 m away, ≈102 spaces. More EV charging: 45 Abell St (931 m, 16 ports); 1051 Queen Street W (1.1 km, 2 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (1.2 km, 2 ports).

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 13, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The south leg carries the load — 1,037 northbound vehicles, or 50% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 452. Most cyclists arrived from the south (293 of 600). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 391 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 46% above the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. (268). Heavy vehicles made up 3.0% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 north578southbound · 202 bikes · 1.6% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles2,067180 pedestrians · 600 cyclists · 3.0% heavy
From the east452westbound · 105 bikes · 4.9% heavy
From the south1,037northbound · 293 bikes · 2.9% heavy
AM peak hour268 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour391 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 13, 2021

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 Brock Ave between Seaforth Ave and Florence St (36 m away) recorded an average of 35 km/h in its 7-day count in June 2022; 85% of drivers were at or under 43 km/h. That segment carries about 3,500 vehicles a day. Florence St between Lane W of Dufferin and N of Florence and Sheridan Ave measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 32 km/h (Jul 2026). The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule. At the school-zone speed sign on Brock Ave (315 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 62,684 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Florence Street between Dufferin St and Brock Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Brock Ave · Seaforth Ave – Florence St · 36 mJun 2022 · 7 days3,47335 km/h43 km/h48 km/h
Florence St · Lane W of Dufferin and N of Florence – Sheridan Ave · 210 mJul 2026 · 7 days1,77323 km/h32 km/h35 km/h

School-zone speed sign 315 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct20 · 24 km/h
Over the limit0.1%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Brock Ave (southbound), 220 Brock Ave · 62,684 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Florence Street · Dufferin St – Brock Ave
    4 speed humps

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

2023 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 1. 17% of collisions here involved an injury. 3 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 50% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 17% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Oct 4, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions6#4810 of 5,508
With an injury1#4133 of 4,660
Property damage only2
Fail to remain3
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist1#1649 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 20146latest Oct 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

The KSI record for this intersection is empty back to 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 four thefts from vehicles and no 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 vehicle420street/outdoor (3), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 16, 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 Little Portugal.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Brock & Florence a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 6 lesser collisions. 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 Brock & Florence?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 13, 2021, 22% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Brock & Florence?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Brock Ave between Seaforth Ave and Florence St (June 2022), found an average of 35 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 43 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 315 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Brock & Florence?

The nearest Green P car park is 1325 Queen St W (505 m away, 32 spaces, 94% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 608 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,630 spaces — 43 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1224 KING ST W (866 m).

How do I get to Brock & Florence by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 505, 506, 504 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 459 m away; bus routes 29, 47, 402, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Brock & Florence?

1 restaurant, café or takeout is within 300 m, and 298 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are McCormick Park Cafe (210 m), 450/ Rooms Coffee (308 m), C.o.r.e. (314 m), Honeys Ice Cream (332 m) and G Mercato (378 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 Brock & Florence?

The nearest is Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom, 66 Sheridan Ave, 224 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom (542 m); Sorauren Avenue Park Fieldhouse Washroom (789 m). 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 Brock & Florence?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,049 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Parkdale Childcare Centre (345 m, 177 spaces), Shirley Street Jr YMCA (406 m, 103 spaces) and Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA (412 m, 120 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Brock & Florence?

90 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 6,827 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 103 West Lodge Ave (171 m, 371 units, RentSafeTO score 85), 105 West Lodge Ave (226 m, 371 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 34 Noble St (357 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 410 Dufferin St (362 m, 198 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 90 is 88 out of 100; 3 scored below 70. 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 Brock & Florence?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and no 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 Little Portugal page.

What neighbourhood is Brock & Florence in?

Brock & Florence is in Little Portugal (City of Toronto neighbourhood 084). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined