Map
Everything on this page, plotted around the node — filter the layers to see one thing at a time
Getting here
Transit within 1 km, cycling at the corner, and what's within a 1.5 km walk
Transit & cycling
- Subway
- Christie Station (Line 2)478 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)708 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)815 m
- Streetcar
- 511 nearest 750 m
- TTC bus
- 1262676312716194 nearest 24 m
- Blue Night
- 300307363
- Nearest stops
- 6 surface stops within 300 m — Christie St at Essex St South Side; Christie St at Follis Ave North Side
- Cycling
- no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
- Bike Share
- Essex St / Christie St 29 m · 19 docks · 26 stations, 511 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 (34)
- Essex Jr Sr & Hawthorne Two BilingualEnglish Public · 170 m
- Sacre Coeur Catholic Elementary SchoolFrench Separate · 323 m
- St Bruno & St Raymond Catholic Elementary School (Future Site)English Separate · 346 m
- Palmerston Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 407 m
- Monsignor Fraser College - Annex CampusEnglish Separate · 538 m
- West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 659 m
- and 28 more
- Community centres
- William H. Bolton Arena515 m
- Native Youth Resource Centre625 m
- Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre662 m
- Hillcrest Community Centre1.3 km
- Parks (40)
- Christie Pits Park411 m
- Vermont Square Park479 m
- Frankel - Lambert Park542 m
- Euclid Avenue Parkette588 m
- Irene Avenue Parkette677 m
- Marian Engel Park680 m
- and 34 more
- Library
- Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch610 m
- Toronto Public Library Davenport branch1 km
- Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch1.3 km
- Places of interest
- Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 920 m
- Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 944 m
- Artscape Wychwood BarnsLandmark · 1.3 km
- Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 1.3 km
- Casa LomaAttraction · 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 3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 2 grocery and convenience stores, and 242 eating places within a kilometre — 3.3× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Morellina's, 104 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.
| Nearest food premises | Distance | Latest DineSafe inspection |
|---|---|---|
| Fiesta Farms Supermarket · 200 Christie St Unit-1grocery | 28 m | Passed, Apr 2026 |
| Morellina's · 146 Christie St | 104 m | Passed, May 2026 |
| Fine Artisanal Wines & Food · 226 Christie Stgrocery | 171 m | Passed, May 2026 |
| Rosalu Snackbar · 228 Christie St | 178 m | Passed, Jul 2026 |
| Brokn Milk · 151 Barton Ave | 224 m | Passed, Jul 2026 |
| Crossroads Kafe · 262 Christie St | 309 m | Passed, Aug 2026 |
| Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St | 316 m | Passed, Sep 2026 |
| Ecole Elementaire Catholique du Sacre-Coeur Snp · 98 Essex St | 316 m | Passed, May 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 Christie Pits Park Washroom, 393 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 393 m away at Alex Duff Memorial Pool.
- Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
9 a.m. to 10 p.m.393 m - Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom · 779 Crawford St
View outdoor pool hours404 m - Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
View centre hours662 m
- Drinking water
- Alex Duff Memorial Pool drinking fountain · 393 m; Christie Pits Park drinking fountain · 439 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
Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 810 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (170 m, 179 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).
- Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care · 50 Essex St
179 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day170 m - Odyssey Montessori School · 256 Christie St
57 spaces · toddler, preschool273 m - Les Bouts D'choux · 98 Essex St
116 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day323 m - Palmerston Community Daycare · 734 Palmerston Ave
139 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day407 m
Licensed centres only; spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
Emergency services
The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 344 (851 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.9 km) and the nearest ambulance station 624 m away.
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
27 registered apartment buildings with 886 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 161 Christie St (84 m, 15 units, 4 storeys, built 1965), which scored 91 out of 100 at its July 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 27 scored below 70; the average is 85, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 5 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 14 fire-code violations are open across them.
| Nearest buildings | Units | Storeys | Built | Score | LTB orders | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 Christie St · Canlight Management Inc. | 15 | 4 | 1965 | 91 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 84 m |
| 740 Dupont St · Greystar Canada Property Management Services Ltd | 210 | 9 | 2021 | 100 · Dec 2025 | 0 | 461 m |
| 42 Barton Ave · Tyndallwood Investments Ltd | 24 | 4 | 1929 | 100 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 496 m |
| 38 Barton Ave · Castlehill Property Management | 18 | 4 | 1919 | 76 · Oct 2025 | 1 · 5 fire | 513 m |
| 177 Pendrith StToronto Community Housing · TCH | 54 | 3 | 1964 | 85 · Aug 2025 | 0 | 534 m |
| 711 Bloor St W | 12 | 3 | 1920 | 23 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 577 m |
| 723 Bloor St W · Cogir Real Estate | 16 | 4 | 1920 | 100 · Jul 2026 | 0 | 578 m |
| 922 Bathurst St · Aston Court Residences Inc | 18 | 3 | 1930 | 93 · Jun 2026 | 0 | 589 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
| Green P car park | Distance | Spaces | Peak occupancy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 376 Clinton St · Surface | 485 m | 34 | 68% (Q1 2026) |
| 675 Manning Ave · Surface | 534 m | 49 | 81% (Q1 2026) |
| 557 Palmerston Ave · Surface | 651 m | 55 | 80% (Q1 2026) |
| 745 Ossington Ave · Surface | 788 m | 46 | 67% (Q1 2026) |
| 365 Lippincott St · Surface | 928 m | 136 | 54% (Q1 2026) |
Nearest lots: 31 m away, ≈38 spaces; 70 m away, ≈22 spaces; 89 m away, ≈9 spaces; 91 m away, ≈20 spaces; 173 m away, ≈28 spaces; 217 m away, ≈9 spaces. More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (817 m, 2 ports); 365 Lippincott St. (914 m, 10 ports); 685 Dovercourt Rd (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, Mar 6, 2017
The north leg carries the load — 3,226 southbound vehicles, or 51% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 4. Most cyclists arrived from the north (190 of 321). Morning rush is the busier period: 1,003 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:00 a.m., compared with 915 from 5:00 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.9% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 10 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2017, 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.
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 Christie St between Barton Ave and John McIntosh Lane (184 m away, Apr 2013) recorded volume only — about 7,112 vehicles a day — with no speed data. At the school-zone speed sign on Essex St (164 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 31,094 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none.
| Street segment | Counted | Vehicles / day | Average | 85th percentile | 95th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christie St · Barton Ave – John McIntosh Lane · 184 m | Apr 2013 · 3 days | 7,112 | — | — | — |
School-zone speed sign 164 m
Essex St (westbound), Opp 49 Essex · 31,094 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.
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 2 collisions. 33% of collisions here involved an injury. People walking or cycling were involved in 33% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Dec 29, 2025.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Collisions | |
|---|---|---|
| All reported collisions | 9 | #4390 of 5,508 |
| With an injury | 3 | #3226 of 4,660 |
| Property damage only | 6 | |
| Fail to remain | 0 | |
| Involving a pedestrian | 2 | #1618 of 3,193 |
| Involving a cyclist | 1 | #1679 of 2,576 |
| Involving a motorcyclist | 1 | |
| With a fatality | 0 | |
| All since 2014 | 13 | latest Dec 29, 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 no thefts from vehicles and one bicycle theft at this intersection in 2016–2025.
By year
| 2016–2025 | Reported | 2023–2025 | Since Jan 2026 | Most often from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft from a vehicle | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | 0 | house driveway/garage (1) |
Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jun 15, 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 Annex.
Nearby intersections
Questions
Is Essex & Christie a dangerous intersection?
Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 9 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 Essex & Christie?
A moderately travelled crossing. Its latest count is from Mar 6, 2017, 69% of the median for a counted intersection.
Where can I park near Essex & Christie?
The nearest Green P car park is 376 Clinton St (485 m away, 34 spaces, 68% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 806 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,880 spaces — 27 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 273 Christie St (276 m).
How do I get to Essex & Christie by transit?
Christie Station (Line 2) is 478 m away; streetcar route 511 stop within 1 km, the nearest 750 m away; bus routes 126, 26, 7, 63, 127, 161, 94 within 1 km (nearest stop: Christie St at Essex St South Side, 24 m).
What restaurants are near Essex & Christie?
3 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 242 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Morellina's (104 m), Rosalu Snackbar (178 m), Brokn Milk (224 m), Crossroads Kafe (309 m) and Les Bouts D'choux (316 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 Essex & Christie?
The nearest is Christie Pits Park Washroom, 750 Bloor St W, 393 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Alex Duff Memorial Outdoor Pool Washroom (404 m); Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (662 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 Essex & Christie?
Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 810 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Hawthorne-On-Essex Day Care (170 m, 179 spaces), Odyssey Montessori School (273 m, 57 spaces) and Les Bouts D'choux (323 m, 116 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.
What apartment buildings are near Essex & Christie?
27 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 886 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 161 Christie St (84 m, 15 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 740 Dupont St (461 m, 210 units, RentSafeTO score 100), 42 Barton Ave (496 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 38 Barton Ave (513 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 76). The average RentSafeTO score across the 27 is 85 out of 100; 2 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 Essex & Christie?
Toronto Police place no 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 Annex page.
What neighbourhood is Essex & Christie in?
Essex & Christie is in Annex (City of Toronto neighbourhood 095). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined
- Traffic counts: City of Toronto, Traffic Volumes – Multimodal Intersection Turning Movement Counts, latest count Mar 6, 2017.
- Serious-injury collisions: City of Toronto / Toronto Police Service, Motor Vehicle Collisions involving Killed or Seriously Injured Persons, records through Aug 29, 2026.
- All collisions: Toronto Police Service, Traffic Collisions Open Data, records through Jun 30, 2026.
- Cameras: City of Toronto, Red Light Cameras.
- Speeds and calming: Midblock Vehicle Speed, Volume and Classification Counts; School Safety Zone Watch Your Speed Program (locations and monthly summary).
- Around the corner: DineSafe (Toronto Public Health); Park Washroom Facilities, Washroom Facilities in City Buildings, Automated Public Toilets, Park Drinking Water Sources; Licensed Child Care Centres; Fire Station Locations, Police Facility Locations, Ambulance Station Locations.
- Apartment buildings: City of Toronto Apartment Building Registration and Apartment Building Evaluation (RentSafeTO), as compiled by LandlordReport with the Ontario LTB Order Catalogue and Toronto Fire Services inspection data (imported Sep 10, 2026).
- Thefts: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, occurrences offset by police to the nearest intersection, records through Jun 15, 2025.
- Ward and BIA: Wards and Elected Councillors (Ward 11 councillor), Business Improvement Areas.
- Getting here: TTC Routes and Schedules (GTFS), GO Transit GTFS, UP Express GTFS, VIA Rail GTFS, MiWay (Mississauga) GTFS, Durham Region Transit GTFS, Brampton Transit GTFS, York Region Transit GTFS, Bike Share Toronto, Cycling Network. Data provided with permission of Metrolinx where GO and UP Express appear.
- Walking distance: City of Toronto School Locations, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Library Branch General Information, Places of Interest and Attractions, Traffic Signals Tabular, Neighbourhoods.
- Parking: Topographic Mapping – Physical Area of Parking Lots, Green P Parking with Parking Occupancy, City-Operated EV Charging Stations, Street Furniture – Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking Racks, High-Capacity Bicycle Parking, Indoor Bike Stations.
- Coordinates: 43.66835, -79.42026 · centreline node 13463865.