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King & Niagara

King St W & Niagara St · Toronto, Ontario · West Queen West · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York

King & Niagara is an intersection of typical volume, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. It sits in West Queen West, in central Toronto. At the corner: a school within 250 m and parks. Nearby: 14 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
10,600
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 14, 2023
6,770 pedestrians · 1,326 cyclists · #1661 busiest
Collisions
75
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
8 with an injury · 59 property damage · #1459 of 5,508 · +2 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
2
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 2 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #366 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
2
TTC stops within 100 m
6 streetcar routes · 2 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 24 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 760 vehicles an hour, 66% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 1.6 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 12.5% of vehicle volume, about 16× the typical share. Police have logged an average of 7.5 collisions a year here over 2016–2025 — 7.1 per 10,000 counted vehicles, 1.43× the median rate for counted intersections. Collisions fell 21%, from 42 in 2016–2020 to 33 in 2021–2025. About one in 38 of those collisions involved a death or serious injury.

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King & Niagara

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
504508501511509505 nearest 12 m
TTC bus
6329 nearest 366 m
Blue Night
304301305363307329
Nearest stops
4 surface stops within 300 m — King St West at Niagara St
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Niagara St / King St W - SMART 20 m · 24 docks · 60 stations, 1,257 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 (14)
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 122 m
  • Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 360 m
  • St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 410 m
  • Charles G Fraser Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 641 m
  • Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 826 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 882 m
  • and 8 more
Parks (43)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch718 m
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 486 m
  • Fort York National Historic SiteMuseum · 498 m
  • iArts MuseumMuseum · 702 m
  • Theatre Passe MuraillePerforming Arts · 756 m
  • Arcadia EarthAttraction · 863 m
  • Graffiti AlleyLandmark · 930 m
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 947 m
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1 km
Signal
0537, activated 1961 · FT · transit priority

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

Toronto Public Health inspects 23 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 361 — 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Greedy Goose Kitchen & Bar, 33 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026.

Restaurants & cafés23 within 300 m · 361 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 39 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Greedy Goose Kitchen & Bar · 803 King St W33 mPassed, Apr 2026
Nourish Marketing Inc · 201 Niagara St48 mPassed, Dec 2025
Fungo Cafe · 800 King St W53 mPassed, Jul 2026
Wallace Espresso · 848 King St W61 mPassed, Dec 2025
Morso Me · 850 King St W63 mPassed, Mar 2026
Koh Samui - Thai Kitchen · 791 King St W70 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 2 infractions
Chau · 852 King St W72 mPassed, Aug 2026
Simit & Chai Company · 787 King St W82 mPassed, Oct 2025

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 Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom, 108 m away, View outdoor pool hours. A drinking fountain is 122 m away at Stanley Park South - Toronto.

  • Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom · 700 Wellington St W
    View outdoor pool hours
    108 m
  • Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom · 890 King St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    129 m
  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 155 Crawford St
    View centre hours · accessible
    686 m
Drinking water
Stanley Park South - Toronto drinking fountain · 122 m; Stanley Park North - Toronto drinking fountain · 156 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 721 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Garrison Creek Community Day Care (122 m, 152 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km10 centres · 721 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 10
  • Garrison Creek Community Day Care · 222 Niagara St
    152 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    122 m
  • Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. · 905 King St W
    50 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    388 m
  • Network Child Care Services - Liberty Village Child Care Centre · 21 Western Battery Rd
    49 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    463 m
  • City Kids Early Learning & Child Care Centre · 34 Bathurst St
    72 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    498 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 331 (519 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.5 km away.

FireFire Station 331 · 519 m33 Claremont St
Police14 Division · 1.7 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 35 · 1.5 km265 Manitoba Dr

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

Within a kilometre there are 25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,656 rental units — 11 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 800 Adelaide St W (236 m, 50 units, 3 storeys, built 1987), which scored 88 out of 100 at its August 2026 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 25 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 47 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue.

Registered buildings25 · 4,656 units · 11 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202647 across the 25
Open fire-code violations0
Tallest46 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
800 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Homes First Society503198788 · Aug 20260236 m
798 Richmond St W · Akelius Canada Ltd52513197089 · Jul 20257299 m
575 Adelaide St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation15011198384 · Aug 20241374 m
11 Ordnance St · Bentallgreenoak Residential Service246242021100 · Jul 20252461 m
25 Ordnance St · Bentallgreenoak Residential Services333312021100 · Jul 20257465 m
15 Gore Vale Ave · Terrance Goldthorpe103192645 · Aug 20260512 m
552 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Par-Med Property Services Inc.845200593 · Jul 20250518 m
15 Solidarity Way · Rhapsody Property Management440262021100 · Aug 20246524 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 lots721 lots · ≈26,890 spaces · 80.7 ha
Within 500 m73 lots · ≈1,260 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 2,399 spaces
EV charging (City)10 Palmerston Ave · 493 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking120 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 72 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
803 Richmond St W · Surface306 m4856% (Q1 2026)
250 Fort York Blvd. · Surface642 m49 *
1030 King Street West - garage entrance via Shank St. · Garage694 m152 *
800 Fleet Street · Surface696 m94 *
2 Portland St · Garage703 m3797% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 39 m away, ≈7 spaces; 68 m away, ≈7 spaces; 70 m away, ≈49 spaces; 89 m away, ≈13 spaces; 95 m away, ≈25 spaces; 143 m away, ≈27 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Portland St (841 m, 4 ports); 1051 Queen Street W (1 km, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (1.1 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 — 14-hour, Nov 14, 2023

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 4,207 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 40% of the total, against 1,278 from the south. Most cyclists arrived from the west (550 of 1,326). Evening rush dominates here: 1,027 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:45 p.m., against 900 in the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. Trucks and buses were 7.2% of traffic, well above the typical 3.2% — a sign of a goods-movement or bus corridor. For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north1,629southbound · 147 bikes · 3.1% heavy
From the west4,207eastbound · 550 bikes · 8.2% heavy
Total vehicles10,6006,770 pedestrians · 1,326 cyclists · 7.2% heavy
From the east3,486westbound · 518 bikes · 9.6% heavy
From the south1,278northbound · 111 bikes · 2.4% heavy
AM peak hour900 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,027 vehicles from 5:45 p.m.
Count14-hour · Nov 14, 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

On Niagara St between Stanley Ave and Adelaide St W, 115 m from the corner, a 14-day count in September 2025 put the average speed at 27 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 35 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 40 km/h or more. That segment carries about 3,400 vehicles a day. 6 speed humps slow traffic on Niagara Street between King St W and Bathurst St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Niagara St · Stanley Ave – Adelaide St W · 115 mSep 2025 · 14 days3,43227 km/h35 km/h40 km/h
King St W · Walnut Ave – Stanley Ter · 147 mNov 2015 · 7 days21,450

Traffic calming

  • Niagara Street · King St W – Bathurst St
    6 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

The worst year was 2024, with 13 collisions; 2025 recorded 6. 8 collisions (11%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 12 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 16% of collisions, in line with the citywide 16%. 7 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 2 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from Jun 28, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 7.1 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions75#1459 of 5,508
With an injury8#2072 of 4,660
Property damage only59
Fail to remain12
Involving a pedestrian3#1281 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist4#612 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist1
With a fatality0
Severity not classified8
Since January 2026 (outside the window)2
All since 201497latest Jun 28, 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

Neither of the two serious-injury collisions in 2016–2025 was fatal. 2 pedestrians were among those hurt. Both happened in darkness. The most recent was on Feb 2, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions2#366 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian2#133 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness2
All KSI since 20062latest Feb 2, 2024

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

12 thefts from vehicles and 33 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 7.5× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 4.5 a year. 75% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 52% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle1250street/outdoor (9), apartment parking (3)
Bicycle theft3370apartment parking (17), street/outdoor (12)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through May 3, 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 West Queen West.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is King & Niagara a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#366 of 1,505), out of 75 reported 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 King & Niagara?

An intersection of typical volume. It ranks #1661 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 66% of the median for a counted intersection, and #318 for pedestrians.

How fast do cars go at King & Niagara?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Niagara St between Stanley Ave and Adelaide St W (September 2025), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 35 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near King & Niagara?

The nearest Green P car park is 803 Richmond St W (306 m away, 48 spaces, 56% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 721 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 26,890 spaces — 73 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Palmerston Ave (493 m).

How do I get to King & Niagara by transit?

Streetcar routes 504, 508, 501, 511 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 12 m away; bus routes 63, 29 within 1 km (nearest stop: King St West at Niagara St, 366 m).

What restaurants are near King & Niagara?

23 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 361 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Greedy Goose Kitchen & Bar (33 m), Nourish Marketing Inc (48 m), Fungo Cafe (53 m), Wallace Espresso (61 m) and Morso Me (63 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 King & Niagara?

The nearest is Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom, 700 Wellington St W, 108 m away (View outdoor pool hours). Next nearest: Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom (129 m); Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom (686 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 King & Niagara?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 721 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Garrison Creek Community Day Care (122 m, 152 spaces), Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. (388 m, 50 spaces) and Network Child Care Services - Liberty Village Child Care Centre (463 m, 49 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near King & Niagara?

25 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,656 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 800 Adelaide St W (236 m, 50 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 798 Richmond St W (299 m, 525 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 575 Adelaide St W (374 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 84) and 11 Ordnance St (461 m, 246 units, RentSafeTO score 100). The average RentSafeTO score across the 25 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 King & Niagara?

Toronto Police place 12 thefts from vehicles and 33 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 West Queen West page.

What neighbourhood is King & Niagara in?

King & Niagara is in West Queen West (City of Toronto neighbourhood 162). It is in Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York, represented by Councillor Ausma Malik.

Sources

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