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Jersey & Alan Borovoy

Jersey Ave & Alan Borovoy Lane · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto, Jersey & Alan Borovoy is a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has 2 schools within 250 m and a park at the corner. Nearby: Christie Station (Line 2) 655 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
124
vehicles · 8-hour count, Nov 20, 2018
58 pedestrians · 7 cyclists
Collisions
0
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
none reported within 65 m
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
Christie Station 655 m · 3 streetcar routes · 5 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 20 vehicles an hour over its 8-hour span, 1% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.1 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 5.6% of vehicle volume, about 7.3× the typical share.

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Jersey & Alan Borovoy

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)655 m; Bathurst Station (Line 2)851 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)889 m
Streetcar
506511505 nearest 406 m
TTC bus
94631261617 nearest 180 m
Blue Night
306305300307363
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Harbord St / Grace St (Bickford Park) 196 m · 23 docks · 28 stations, 538 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 (35)
  • Montrose Jr & Delta Alternative SrEnglish Public · 202 m
  • Clinton Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 211 m
  • St Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 298 m
  • Harbord Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 344 m
  • Central Toronto Academy & Horizon Alternative SrEnglish Public · 460 m
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 512 m
  • and 29 more
Parks (35)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch493 m
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch747 m
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 716 m
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 1.2 km
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 1.3 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 8 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 1 grocery or convenience store, and 355 eating places within a kilometre — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Full Stop Coffee, 179 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés8 within 300 m · 355 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience1 within 300 m · 45 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Full Stop Coffee · 326 Harbord St179 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Canary Counter · 322 Harbord St186 mPassed, Apr 2026
Sam James Coffee Bar · 297 Harbord St220 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Le Petit Chef · 536 Manning Ave229 mPassed, Aug 2026
Bickford Brewing Co · 292 Harbord St Unit-A235 mPassed, Dec 2025
Dl Chicken Shack · 538 Manning Ave248 mPassed, Jun 2026
Ojjj's Variety · 533 Manning Ave Unit-2grocery259 mPassed, Jun 2026
Y Not Italian · 538 Manning Ave264 mPassed, Jun 2025 · 1 infraction

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 Bickford Park Washroom, 241 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 172 m away at Art Eggleton Park.

  • Bickford Park Washroom · 400 Grace St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    241 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    531 m
  • Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom · 155 Roxton Rd
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    729 m
Drinking water
Art Eggleton Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 172 m; Bickford Park bottle filling station · 231 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

15 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,492 spaces; 12 accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. (202 m, 117 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km15 centres · 1,492 spaces
Fee subsidy12 of 15
  • Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. · 301 Montrose Ave
    117 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    202 m
  • Centro Clinton Day Care Centre · 460 Manning Ave
    174 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    211 m
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    555 m
  • Garderie La Farandole Sur Grace · 77 Grace St
    161 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    630 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (0.9 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.1 km) and the nearest ambulance station 868 m away.

FireFire Station 315 · 0.9 km132 Bellevue Ave
Police14 Division · 1.1 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 868 m674 Markham St

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

24 registered apartment buildings with 777 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, five of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 333 Harbord St (235 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1913), which scored 89 out of 100 at its June 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 24 scored below 70; the average is 84, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 8 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 3 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings24 · 777 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score84 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 20268 across the 24
Open fire-code violations3
Tallest12 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
333 Harbord St · 1569625 Ontario Limited103191389 · Jun 20260235 m
72 Clinton StToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1577198991 · Oct 20252 · 2 fire340 m
456 Palmerston Blvd324190481 · Aug 20250405 m
677 College St323191288 · Sep 20241413 m
318 Clinton St123197076 · Oct 20250440 m
336 Clinton St173199295 · Oct 20250470 m
469 Palmerston Blvd10319320478 m
378 Markham St · Berkley Property Management Inc174190095 · Jul 20260485 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 lots913 lots · ≈22,620 spaces · 67.9 ha
Within 500 m39 lots · ≈490 spaces
Green P (public)31 car parks · about 2,664 spaces
EV charging (City)74 Clinton Street · 356 m · 4 Level 2 ports
Bike parking60 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 136 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
80 Clinton Street · Surface287 m25 *
74 Clinton Street · Garage308 m79 *
157 Beatrice St · Surface435 m1864% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface659 m3468% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface676 m4981% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 28 m away, ≈3 spaces; 159 m away, ≈2 spaces; 184 m away, ≈12 spaces; 239 m away, ≈34 spaces; 296 m away, ≈5 spaces; 301 m away, ≈39 spaces. More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (592 m, 2 ports); 365 Lippincott St. (924 m, 10 ports); 283 Ossington Ave (1 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, Nov 20, 2018

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The east leg carries the load — 70 westbound vehicles, or 56% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 25. Morning rush is the busier period: 25 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:15 a.m., compared with 18 from 2:15 p.m. The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 8 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2018, 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 north25southbound · 1 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles12458 pedestrians · 7 cyclists · 0.0% heavy
From the east70westbound · 3 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south29northbound · 3 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour25 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour18 vehicles from 2:15 p.m.
Count8-hour · Nov 20, 2018

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

At the school-zone speed sign on Harbord St (298 m away, 40 km/h limit), 1.8% of the 45,951 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — a small minority.

School-zone speed sign 298 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct36 · 42 km/h
Over the limit8.1%
50 km/h or more1.8%

Harbord St (eastbound), S Side Harbord St In Front of P97 · 45,951 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

Toronto Police recorded no collisions of any severity within 65 m of this intersection in 2016–2025.

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.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Jersey & Alan Borovoy a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025 and police reported no collisions of any severity. 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 Jersey & Alan Borovoy?

A quiet local crossing. Its latest count is from Nov 20, 2018, 1% of the median for a counted intersection.

Where can I park near Jersey & Alan Borovoy?

The nearest Green P car park is 80 Clinton Street (287 m away, 25 spaces). The City's mapping shows 913 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,620 spaces — 39 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 74 Clinton Street (356 m).

How do I get to Jersey & Alan Borovoy by transit?

Christie Station (Line 2) is 655 m away; streetcar routes 506, 511, 505 stop within 1 km, the nearest 406 m away; bus routes 94, 63, 126, 161, 7 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Jersey & Alan Borovoy?

8 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 355 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Full Stop Coffee (179 m), Canary Counter (186 m), Sam James Coffee Bar (220 m), Le Petit Chef (229 m) and Bickford Brewing Co (235 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 Jersey & Alan Borovoy?

The nearest is Bickford Park Washroom, 400 Grace St, 241 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (531 m); Fred Hamilton Playground Washroom (729 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 Jersey & Alan Borovoy?

15 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,492 spaces in total; 12 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Montrose Child Care Centre Inc. (202 m, 117 spaces), Centro Clinton Day Care Centre (211 m, 174 spaces) and Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (555 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Jersey & Alan Borovoy?

24 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 777 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 333 Harbord St (235 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 72 Clinton St (340 m, 157 units, RentSafeTO score 91), 456 Palmerston Blvd (405 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 677 College St (413 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 88). The average RentSafeTO score across the 24 is 84 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.

What neighbourhood is Jersey & Alan Borovoy in?

Jersey & Alan Borovoy is in Palmerston-Little Italy (City of Toronto neighbourhood 080). It is in Ward 11, University-Rosedale, represented by Councillor Dianne Saxe.

Sources

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