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Brock & Noble

Brock Ave & Noble St · Toronto, Ontario · Roncesvalles · Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park

In Roncesvalles, in central Toronto, Brock & Noble is a lightly travelled intersection. It has a bike lane and parks at the corner. Nearby: 13 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
2,713
vehicles · 8-hour count, Mar 20, 2000
355 pedestrians · 125 cyclists
Collisions
8
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 6 property damage · #4516 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
1
TTC stop within 100 m
4 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Sharrows
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Hour by hour, the 8-hour count works out to close to 340 vehicles, 29% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 8 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 4.6% of vehicle volume, about 5.9× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 0.8 collisions a year here over 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 & Noble

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501504508505 nearest 96 m
TTC bus
402294763 nearest 225 m
Express
929
Blue Night
301304305329
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m — Queen St West at Brock Ave
Cycling
Sharrows on Brock Ave installed 2014
Bike Share
Queen St W / Cowan Ave 162 m · 19 docks · 28 stations, 470 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 (19)
  • Parkdale Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 344 m
  • Parkdale Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 405 m
  • Holy Family Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 424 m
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Ave & the GroveEnglish Public · 512 m
  • Dr Rita Cox - Kina Minagok Public SchoolEnglish Public · 683 m
  • Shirley St Jr & City View AlternativeEnglish Public · 759 m
  • and 13 more
Parks (39)
  • Pat Capponi Parkette146 m
  • Masaryk Park230 m
  • Gwynne Avenue Parkette243 m
  • Parkdale Amphitheatre283 m
  • Dunn Avenue Parkette324 m
  • Pessoa Park342 m
  • and 33 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Parkdale branch120 m
  • Toronto Public Library High Park branch1.3 km
Places of interest
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 761 m
  • Medieval Times Dinner and TournamentPerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • Queen Elizabeth TheatrePerforming Arts · 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 are 40 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores, and 298 eating places within a kilometre — 4.1× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Bb's, 40 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2024.

Restaurants & cafés40 within 300 m · 298 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 58 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bb's · 5 Brock Ave40 mPassed, Aug 2024
Honeys Ice Cream · 46 Noble St, Unit-10779 mPassed, Dec 2024
Craig's Cookies · 1332 Queen St W93 mPassed, Aug 2026
The Virginia Cocktail Bar · 1374 Queen St W106 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 3 infractions
Tibet Kitchen · 1378 Queen St W112 mPassed, Jul 2026
Kaminari · 1330 Queen St W113 mPassed, Aug 2024
Hanoi Restaurant · 1285 Queen St W115 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Ground Control · 1279 Queen St W118 mPassed, Feb 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 Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 195 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 236 m away at Masaryk Park.

  • Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 220 Cowan Ave
    View centre hours
    195 m
  • Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom · 66 Sheridan Ave
    View centre hours
    563 m
Drinking water
Masaryk Park drinking fountain · 236 m; Melbourne Avenue Parkette drinking fountain · 397 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

12 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 951 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Parkdale Childcare Centre (344 m, 177 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km12 centres · 951 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 12
  • Parkdale Childcare Centre · 78 Seaforth Ave
    177 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    344 m
  • Holy Family Childcare Centre-Queen Victoria · 141 Close Ave
    25 spaces · school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    424 m
  • Bonaventure Child Care Centre · 295 Dufferin St
    67 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    503 m
  • Alexander Muir Gladstone Jr YMCA · 108 Gladstone Ave
    120 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    512 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (583 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 202 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 583 m140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 1.1 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 37 · 202 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

132 registered apartment buildings with 10,563 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 24 of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 5.7× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 34 Noble St (119 m, 18 units, 3 storeys, built 1935), which scored 91 out of 100 at its June 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 132 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 334 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 75 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings132 · 10,563 units · 24 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026334 across the 132
Open fire-code violations75
Tallest35 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
34 Noble St · Cogir Real Estate183193591 · Jun 20252119 m
15 O'Hara Ave · Kpm Kingsway Property Management324197091 · Jul 20241124 m
7 O'Hara Ave · Kpm Kingsway Property Management164197083 · Jun 20240135 m
22 O'Hara AveToronto Community Housing · TCH133191897 · Jul 20240178 m
245 Dunn AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation38420197184 · Sep 20243 · 2 fire253 m
20 West Lodge AveToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation29911195991 · Jul 20246285 m
400 Dufferin St · Rhapsody Property Management Service15213202199 · Jul 20255 · 1 fire302 m
240 Dunn Avesocial housing · Howard & Associates725199296 · Sep 20240313 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 lots553 lots · ≈24,440 spaces · 73.3 ha
Within 500 m67 lots · ≈1,590 spaces
Green P (public)19 car parks · about 1,508 spaces
EV charging (City)1224 KING ST W · 525 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking111 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 70 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
1325 Queen St W · Surface182 m3294% (Q1 2026)
14 Fuller Ave · Surface579 m4247% (Q1 2026)
45 Abell St · Garage711 m12460% (Q1 2026)
110 Dovercourt Rd · Surface815 m8over 100% (Q1 2026)
1624 Queen St W · Surface846 m3371% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 87 m away, ≈12 spaces; 88 m away, ≈4 spaces; 107 m away, ≈7 spaces; 138 m away, ≈35 spaces; 138 m away, ≈29 spaces; 154 m away, ≈6 spaces. More EV charging: 45 Abell St (729 m, 16 ports); 1051 Queen Street W (1 km, 2 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (1.3 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, Mar 20, 2000

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The north leg carries the load — 1,316 southbound vehicles, or 49% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 426. Most cyclists arrived from the north (84 of 125). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 489 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 46% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (336). Heavy vehicles made up 3.2% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 27 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2000, 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 north1,316southbound · 84 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles2,713355 pedestrians · 125 cyclists · 3.2% heavy
From the east426westbound · 13 bikes · 3.8% heavy
From the south971northbound · 28 bikes · 3.0% heavy
AM peak hour336 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour489 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Mar 20, 2000

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 (327 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. Noble St between Queen St W and Strickland Ave measured slower: 32 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 38 km/h (Mar 2004). The reading is 4 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Noble St · Queen St W – Strickland Ave · 227 mMar 2004 · 3 days1,30932 km/h38 km/h42 km/h
Brock Ave · Seaforth Ave – Florence St · 327 mJun 2022 · 7 days3,47335 km/h43 km/h48 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

2024 was the peak year (2 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 25% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Dec 7, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions8#4516 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only6
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 20149latest Dec 7, 2024

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 May 25, 2010.

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 vehicle310street/outdoor (3)
Bicycle theft200commercial premises (1), school/campus (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 25, 2024. 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 Roncesvalles.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Brock & Noble a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 8 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 & Noble?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Mar 20, 2000, 29% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Brock & Noble?

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.

Where can I park near Brock & Noble?

The nearest Green P car park is 1325 Queen St W (182 m away, 32 spaces, 94% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 553 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 24,440 spaces — 67 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 1224 KING ST W (525 m).

How do I get to Brock & Noble by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 504, 508, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 96 m away; bus routes 402, 29, 47, 63, 929 within 1 km (nearest stop: Queen St West at Brock Ave, 225 m).

What restaurants are near Brock & Noble?

40 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 298 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bb's (40 m), Honeys Ice Cream (79 m), Craig's Cookies (93 m), The Virginia Cocktail Bar (106 m) and Tibet Kitchen (112 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 & Noble?

The nearest is Masaryk-Cowan Community Recreation Centre Washroom, 220 Cowan Ave, 195 m away (View centre hours). Next nearest: Mary McCormick Recreation Centre Washroom (563 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 & Noble?

12 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 951 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Parkdale Childcare Centre (344 m, 177 spaces), Holy Family Childcare Centre-Queen Victoria (424 m, 25 spaces) and Bonaventure Child Care Centre (503 m, 67 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Brock & Noble?

132 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 10,563 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 34 Noble St (119 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 15 O'Hara Ave (124 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 7 O'Hara Ave (135 m, 16 units, RentSafeTO score 83) and 22 O'Hara Ave (178 m, 13 units, RentSafeTO score 97). The average RentSafeTO score across the 132 is 90 out of 100; 1 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 & Noble?

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 Roncesvalles page.

What neighbourhood is Brock & Noble in?

Brock & Noble is in Roncesvalles (City of Toronto neighbourhood 086). It is in Ward 4, Parkdale-High Park, represented by Councillor Gord Perks.

Sources

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