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Lennox & Palmerston

Lennox St & Palmerston Blvd · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

Lennox & Palmerston is a low-volume local intersection, with more people on foot than in cars and a well-used cycling route through it. It sits in Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto. It has a bike lane, 2 schools within 250 m and parks at the corner. Nearby: Bathurst Station (Line 2) 267 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
957
vehicles · 14-hour count, Nov 14, 2023
1,598 pedestrians · 1,055 cyclists · #2346 busiest
Collisions
3
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 2 property damage · #5298 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
0
TTC stops within 100 m
Bathurst Station 267 m · 3 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Sharrows, Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 11 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 70 vehicles an hour, 6% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 1.7 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 110.2% of vehicle volume, about 142× the typical share. On average 0.3 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — well below the median of 31 for the decade. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Lennox & Palmerston

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Bathurst Station (Line 2)267 m; Christie Station (Line 2)357 m; Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2)721 m
Streetcar
511506510 nearest 197 m
TTC bus
947126127 nearest 259 m
Blue Night
306310300307
Nearest stops
12 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Sharrows on Palmerston Blvd installed 2023; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Palmerston Blvd installed 2023; Bike Lane - Contraflow on Lennox St installed 2023
Bike Share
Palmerston Blvd / Lennox St 2 m · 11 docks · 32 stations, 616 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 (41)
  • City As School TorontoPrivate · 189 m
  • Harbord Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 244 m
  • Central Technical SchoolEnglish Public · 375 m
  • Monsignor Fraser College - Annex CampusEnglish Separate · 439 m
  • West End Alternative SchoolEnglish Public · 548 m
  • Palmerston Avenue Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 561 m
  • and 35 more
Parks (39)
  • Honest Ed's Park107 m
  • Euclid Avenue Parkette218 m
  • Seaton Park352 m
  • Ed and Anne Mirvish Parkette384 m
  • Healey Willan Park451 m
  • Bickford Park519 m
  • and 33 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch214 m
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch838 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 187 m
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 814 m
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 900 m
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 1.1 km
  • Tarragon TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.3 km
  • George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.3 km
  • Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 1.4 km
  • Koerner Hall (at the Telus Centre for Performance and Learning)Performing 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 69 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 9 grocery and convenience stores, and 363 eating places within a kilometre — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Bookbar, 102 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés69 within 300 m · 363 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience9 within 300 m · 37 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Bookbar · 600 Markham St102 mPassed, Aug 2026
Pizzeria Badiali Annex · 581 Markham St119 mPassed, Jun 2026
Blackbird Annex · 610 Markham St126 mPassed, Aug 2026
Isabella's Mochi Donut Boutique · 607 Bloor St W134 mPassed, Jul 2026
Hancook · 605 Bloor St W139 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
Rustle & Still · 605 Bloor St W139 mPassed, Jun 2026
Kung Fu Tea · 633 Bloor St W146 mPassed, Jul 2026
The Alley · 621 Bloor St W147 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 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, 514 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 367 m away at Seaton Park.

  • Bickford Park Washroom · 400 Grace St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    514 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    587 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    632 m
Drinking water
Seaton Park bottle filling station · 367 m; Healey Willan Park drinking fountain · 441 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

16 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,761 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (362 m, 56 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km16 centres · 1,761 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 16
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    362 m
  • Palmerston Community Daycare · 734 Palmerston Ave
    139 spaces · preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    561 m
  • Centro Clinton Day Care Centre · 460 Manning Ave
    174 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    636 m
  • Annex Montessori School · 427 Bloor St W
    68 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    669 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (1.0 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.7 km) and the nearest ambulance station 302 m away.

FireFire Station 315 · 1 km132 Bellevue Ave
Police14 Division · 1.7 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 302 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

47 registered apartment buildings with 2,671 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, four of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 532 Palmerston Blvd (63 m, 21 units, 4 storeys, built 1911), which scored 94 out of 100 at its August 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 47 scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 34 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 11 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings47 · 2,671 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score87 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202634 across the 47
Open fire-code violations11
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
532 Palmerston Blvd214191194 · Aug 2025063 m
481 Palmerston Blvd113190787 · Aug 20250152 m
748 Bathurst St · Westbank Ontario Realty Corp95122024100 · Sep 20251189 m
469 Palmerston Blvd10319320206 m
456 Palmerston Blvd324190481 · Aug 20250253 m
686 Bathurst St · Stein & Regency Construction Management Co.244194793 · Dec 20250266 m
318 Clinton St123197076 · Oct 20250324 m
336 Clinton St173199295 · Oct 20250350 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 lots906 lots · ≈22,280 spaces · 66.8 ha
Within 500 m61 lots · ≈1,210 spaces
Green P (public)26 car parks · about 2,444 spaces
EV charging (City)365 Lippincott St. · 357 m · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parking127 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 50 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
557 Palmerston Ave · Surface194 m5580% (Q1 2026)
675 Manning Ave · Surface275 m4981% (Q1 2026)
365 Lippincott St · Surface339 m13654% (Q1 2026)
376 Clinton St · Surface379 m3468% (Q1 2026)
292 Brunswick Avenue · Surface497 m19 *

Nearest lots: 127 m away, ≈10 spaces; 159 m away, ≈7 spaces; 175 m away, ≈9 spaces (Green P); 183 m away, ≈23 spaces; 186 m away, ≈11 spaces; 194 m away, ≈6 spaces. More EV charging: 705 Shaw St (807 m, 2 ports); 74 Clinton Street (842 m, 4 ports); 19 Spadina Rd (884 m, 6 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

The west leg carries the load — 460 eastbound vehicles, or 48% of everything entering — while the north leg brought 30. Most cyclists arrived from the north (455 of 1,055). Morning rush is the busier period: 120 vehicles in the peak hour from 8:30 a.m., compared with 94 from 5:30 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.3% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 3 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north30southbound · 455 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west460eastbound · 78 bikes · 1.1% heavy
Total vehicles9571,598 pedestrians · 1,055 cyclists · 1.3% heavy
From the east177westbound · 91 bikes · 2.3% heavy
From the south290northbound · 431 bikes · 1.0% heavy
AM peak hour120 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour94 vehicles from 5:30 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

The City's counter on Palmerston Blvd between Herrick St and Lennox St (66 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 3-day count in November 2023; 85% of drivers were at or under 34 km/h. That segment carries about 700 vehicles a day. Lennox St between Lane W of Markham and N of Lennox and Palmerston Blvd measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 32 km/h (Oct 2025). At the school-zone speed sign on Manning Ave (207 m away, 30 km/h limit), 0.0% of the 44,756 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — almost none.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Lennox St · Lane W of Markham and N of Lennox – Palmerston Blvd · 26 mOct 2025 · 3 days67523 km/h32 km/h35 km/h
Palmerston Blvd · Herrick St – Lennox St · 66 mNov 2023 · 3 days68827 km/h34 km/h38 km/h

School-zone speed sign 207 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct19 · 24 km/h
Over the limit0.1%
40 km/h or more0.0%

Manning Ave (southbound), E Side Manning Ave Across 606 Manning Ave · 44,756 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

2021 was the peak year (1 collision), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 1 driver failed to remain at the scene — 33% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Aug 16, 2021.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions3#5298 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only2
Fail to remain1
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified1
All since 20144latest Aug 16, 2021

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 Dec 19, 2012.

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 one theft from a vehicle and four 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 vehicle110street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft400apartment parking (3), house driveway/garage (1)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 20, 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 Palmerston-Little Italy.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Lennox & Palmerston a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 3 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 Lennox & Palmerston?

A low-volume local intersection. It ranks #2346 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 6% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Lennox & Palmerston?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Palmerston Blvd between Herrick St and Lennox St (November 2023), found an average of 27 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 34 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 207 m away (30 km/h), 0.0% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Lennox & Palmerston?

The nearest Green P car park is 557 Palmerston Ave (194 m away, 55 spaces, 80% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 906 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,280 spaces — 61 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 365 Lippincott St. (357 m).

How do I get to Lennox & Palmerston by transit?

Bathurst Station (Line 2) is 267 m away; streetcar routes 511, 506, 510 stop within 1 km, the nearest 197 m away; bus routes 94, 7, 126, 127 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Lennox & Palmerston?

69 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 363 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Bookbar (102 m), Pizzeria Badiali Annex (119 m), Blackbird Annex (126 m), Isabella's Mochi Donut Boutique (134 m) and Hancook (139 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 Lennox & Palmerston?

The nearest is Bickford Park Washroom, 400 Grace St, 514 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (587 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (632 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 Lennox & Palmerston?

16 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,761 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (362 m, 56 spaces), Palmerston Community Daycare (561 m, 139 spaces) and Centro Clinton Day Care Centre (636 m, 174 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Lennox & Palmerston?

47 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,671 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 532 Palmerston Blvd (63 m, 21 units, RentSafeTO score 94), 481 Palmerston Blvd (152 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 748 Bathurst St (189 m, 95 units, RentSafeTO score 100) and 469 Palmerston Blvd (206 m, 10 units). The average RentSafeTO score across the 47 is 87 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 Lennox & Palmerston?

Toronto Police place one theft from a vehicle and four 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 Palmerston-Little Italy page.

What neighbourhood is Lennox & Palmerston in?

Lennox & Palmerston 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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