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Eastern & Cherry

Eastern Ave & Cherry St · Toronto, Ontario · Moss Park · Ward 13, Toronto Centre

Eastern & Cherry, in Moss Park, in central Toronto, is a moderately heavy crossing. It has a live City traffic camera, a bike lane and a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: 16 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
18,101
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 25, 2025
3,504 pedestrians · 862 cyclists · #1017 busiest
Collisions
58
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
5 with an injury · 48 property damage · #1843 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
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
6 streetcar routes · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane
Bike Share: 12 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 1,290 vehicles an hour, about the citywide median. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 5 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 4.8% of vehicle volume, about 6.1× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 5.8 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 3.2 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. Collisions fell 24%, from 33 in 2016–2020 to 25 in 2021–2025. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Eastern & Cherry

Live traffic camera

The City's RESCU camera at Cherry St & Eastern Ave — a 320 × 240 still the City replaces every few minutes, with the frame's age and its four fixed reference views

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Live camera RESCU 8237 · Cherry St & Eastern Ave
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Fixed views the City's reference still for each direction

The City's own feed for Eastern & Cherry, published as a 320 × 240 still that its server replaces every few minutes — the card checks for a new frame every 45 seconds while you are on the page (Reload checks now) and says whether the frame changed. The fixed views are the City's reference stills showing where the camera points in each direction.

Live camera · RESCU 8237 · Cherry St & Eastern Ave
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Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
504508503501505506 nearest 121 m
TTC bus
1212026511475 nearest 159 m
Blue Night
304301305306365
Nearest stops
8 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane on Cherry St installed 2005
Bike Share
Sackville St / Eastern Ave - SMART 71 m · 12 docks · 39 stations, 807 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 (18)
  • Inglenook Community SchoolEnglish Public · 64 m
  • St Paul Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 309 m
  • George Brown College - Young Centre For the Performing ArtsCollege · 347 m
  • Voice Integrative Private SchoolPrivate · 435 m
  • Liberty Prep SchoolPrivate · 509 m
  • Nelson Mandela Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 512 m
  • and 12 more
Parks (53)
  • Percy Park158 m
  • Sackville Playground185 m
  • Bright Street Playground275 m
  • Diamond Jubilee Promenade283 m
  • Orphan's Green283 m
  • Little Trinity Church Lands300 m
  • and 47 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library St. Lawrence branch885 m
  • Toronto Public Library Queen/Saulter branch1.1 km
  • Toronto Public Library Parliament Street branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • Young Centre for the Performing ArtsPerforming Arts · 335 m
  • The Distillery Historic DistrictLandmark · 405 m
  • Illuminarium TorontoAttraction · 466 m
  • Thompson Landry Gallery - Stone Building & Cooperage SpaceGallery · 475 m
  • Alumnae TheatrePerforming Arts · 527 m
  • Canadian Stage (Berkeley Street Theatre)Performing Arts · 558 m
  • Soulpepper Theatre CompanyPerforming Arts · 578 m
  • Native Earth Performing Arts & Aki StudioPerforming Arts · 743 m
Signal
0816, activated 1964 · FT · accessible (audible) pedestrian signal · leading pedestrian interval North/South · transit priority

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 22 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores, and 252 eating places within a kilometre — 3.5× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Forno Cultura, 99 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in September 2026.

Restaurants & cafés22 within 300 m · 252 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 34 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Forno Cultura · 507 King St E Flr-Rooftop99 mPassed, Sep 2026
Gusto 501 · 501 King St E115 mPassed, Aug 2025
T Spaccio Cafe / Store · 22 Sackville St118 mPassed, Sep 2026
Terroni Sud Forno Produzione E · 22 Sackville St118 mPassed, Aug 2026
Body Blitz Spa · 497 King St E138 mPassed, Sep 2026
Dark Horse Espresso Bar · 416 Front St E144 mPassed, Feb 2026
Hasty Market · 146 Sumach Stgrocery147 mPassed, Jan 2026
Kibo Sushi House · 146 Sumach St147 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions

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 Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom, 508 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 167 m away at Sackville Playground.

  • Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom · 155 Bayview Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    508 m
  • Regent Park Athletic Grounds Outdoor Rink Washroom · 480 Shuter St
    View outdoor rink hours · accessible
    540 m
  • Regent Park Community Centre Washroom · 402 Shuter St
    View centre hours
    550 m
Drinking water
Sackville Playground bottle filling station, drinking fountain · 167 m; Diamond Jubilee Promenade drinking fountain · 175 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 918 spaces; nine accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Eyet Early Learning Centre (Tom's Place) (309 m, 52 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km13 centres · 918 spaces
Fee subsidy9 of 13
  • Eyet Early Learning Centre (Tom's Place) · 80 Sackville St
    52 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    309 m
  • Distillery District Early Learning Centre · 8 Distillery Lane
    85 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    503 m
  • Liberty Prep Parliament · 162 Parliament St
    35 spaces · toddler, preschool
    509 m
  • George Brown - Nelson Mandela Child Care Centre · 440 Shuter St
    179 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 333 (711 m), the nearest police station 51 Division (354 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.5 km away.

FireFire Station 333 · 711 m207 Front St E
Police51 Division · 354 m51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 40 · 1.5 km58 Richmond St E

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

45 registered apartment buildings with 5,789 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, 36 of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 20 Palace St (161 m, 108 units, 10 storeys), which scored 96 out of 100 at its December 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 103 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 55 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings45 · 5,789 units · 36 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026103 across the 45
Open fire-code violations55
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
20 Palace Stsocial housing · Fred Victor Centre1081096 · Dec 20250161 m
75 Cooperage Stsocial housing · Wigwamen Incorporated14512201698 · Nov 20255164 m
100 Mill St · Tricon Residentail237112024100 · Nov 20256271 m
45 St Lawrence StToronto Community Housing · TCH504198096 · Jun 20264304 m
585 King St EToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1288201499 · Nov 20250319 m
131 Mill St · Tricon Residential Inc23015202299 · Jul 202510 · 15 fire321 m
40 Lower River StToronto Community Housing · TCH594201497 · Jun 20260347 m
151 Mill St · Tricon Residential Inc232162022100 · Jul 20258 · 13 fire361 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 lots746 lots · ≈35,730 spaces · 107.2 ha
Within 500 m86 lots · ≈2,750 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 5,079 spaces
EV charging (City)51 Dockside Dr. · 1.2 km · 5 Level 2 ports
Bike parking207 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 80 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
100 Cooperage Street · Garage117 m86 *
373 Front Street East · Surface197 m450 *
40 Rolling Mills Rd. · Garage267 m25 *
83 Tannery Road · Garage297 m27 *
70 Distillery Lane · Garage425 m103 *

Nearest lots: 34 m away, ≈12 spaces; 58 m away, ≈21 spaces; 90 m away, ≈28 spaces; 95 m away, ≈35 spaces; 97 m away, ≈43 spaces; 109 m away, ≈219 spaces. More EV charging: 51 Dockside Dr (1.2 km, 6 ports); 2 Church St. (1.4 km, 28 ports); 188 Carlton St (1.5 km, 1 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 — 14-hour, Jun 25, 2025

The east leg carries the load — 7,649 westbound vehicles, or 42% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 1,713. Most cyclists arrived from the south (395 of 862). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 1,582 vehicles in the hour from 4:45 p.m., 11% above the morning peak from 7:45 a.m. (1,425). Trucks and buses were 6.4% 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 15 months old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north1,713southbound · 356 bikes · 8.6% heavy
From the west6,091eastbound · 60 bikes · 4.9% heavy
Total vehicles18,1013,504 pedestrians · 862 cyclists · 6.4% heavy
From the east7,649westbound · 51 bikes · 4.3% heavy
From the south2,648northbound · 395 bikes · 14.5% heavy
AM peak hour1,425 vehicles from 7:45 a.m.
PM peak hour1,582 vehicles from 4:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jun 25, 2025

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 most recent midblock count on Eastern Ave between Sackville St and Cherry St (33 m away, Feb 2010) recorded volume only — about 17,121 vehicles a day — with no speed data.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Eastern Ave · Sackville St – Cherry St · 33 mFeb 2010 · 3 days17,121
Cherry St · Eastern Ave – Virgin Pl · 47 mJun 2011 · 3 days4,960

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

2019 was the peak year (9 collisions), and 2025 closed with 4. 9% of collisions here involved an injury, below the 15% citywide. 7 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 12% of collisions, below the citywide 16%. People walking or cycling were involved in 7% of collisions here (citywide: 5%). Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 3, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 3.2 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions58#1843 of 5,508
With an injury5#2670 of 4,660
Property damage only48
Fail to remain7
Involving a pedestrian2#1703 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist2#1109 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified5
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201465latest Jun 3, 2026

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 Jan 13, 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 two thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025 — below the median of 6 for an intersection with any reported theft.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle200street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft100apartment parking (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Dec 18, 2022. 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 Moss Park.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Eastern & Cherry a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 58 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 Eastern & Cherry?

A moderately heavy crossing. It ranks #1017 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, about the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Eastern & Cherry?

The nearest Green P car park is 100 Cooperage Street (117 m away, 86 spaces). The City's mapping shows 746 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 35,730 spaces — 86 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 51 Dockside Dr. (1.2 km).

How do I get to Eastern & Cherry by transit?

Streetcar routes 504, 508, 503, 501 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 121 m away; bus routes 121, 202, 65, 114, 75 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Eastern & Cherry?

22 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 252 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Forno Cultura (99 m), Gusto 501 (115 m), T Spaccio Cafe / Store (118 m), Terroni Sud Forno Produzione E (118 m) and Body Blitz Spa (138 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 Eastern & Cherry?

The nearest is Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom, 155 Bayview Ave, 508 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Regent Park Athletic Grounds Outdoor Rink Washroom (540 m); Regent Park Community Centre Washroom (550 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 Eastern & Cherry?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 918 spaces in total; 9 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Eyet Early Learning Centre (Tom's Place) (309 m, 52 spaces), Distillery District Early Learning Centre (503 m, 85 spaces) and Liberty Prep Parliament (509 m, 35 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Eastern & Cherry?

45 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 5,789 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 20 Palace St (161 m, 108 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 75 Cooperage St (164 m, 145 units, RentSafeTO score 98), 100 Mill St (271 m, 237 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 45 St Lawrence St (304 m, 50 units, RentSafeTO score 96). The average RentSafeTO score across the 45 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 Eastern & Cherry?

Toronto Police place two thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft 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 Moss Park page.

What neighbourhood is Eastern & Cherry in?

Eastern & Cherry is in Moss Park (City of Toronto neighbourhood 073). It is in Ward 13, Toronto Centre, represented by Councillor Chris Moise.

Sources

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