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Markham & Harbord

Markham St & Harbord St · Toronto, Ontario · Palmerston-Little Italy · Ward 11, University-Rosedale

In Palmerston-Little Italy, in central Toronto, Markham & Harbord is a quiet local crossing, with a strong pedestrian presence and a well-used cycling route through it. It has a protected bikeway and a school within 250 m at the corner. Nearby: Bathurst Station (Line 2) 499 m away. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
5,709
vehicles · 14-hour count, Oct 21, 2025
2,250 pedestrians · 1,457 cyclists · #1975 busiest
Collisions
12
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
1 with an injury · 9 property damage · #4060 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
3
TTC stops within 100 m
Bathurst Station 499 m · 3 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Protected
Cycle Track
Bike Share: 0 docks within 150 m

Across the 14-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 410 vehicles an hour, 35% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 2.5 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 25.5% of vehicle volume, about 33× the typical share. On average 1.2 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 2.1 per 10,000 counted vehicles, below the median rate of 5.0. None of them involved a death or serious injury.

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Markham & Harbord

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)499 m; Christie Station (Line 2)619 m; Spadina Station (Line 1, Line 2)762 m
Streetcar
511506510 nearest 96 m
TTC bus
947126127 nearest 84 m
Blue Night
306310307300
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m — Harbord St at Palmerston Blvd; Harbord St at Bathurst St
Cycling
Cycle Track on Harbord St installed 2001
Bike Share
Ulster St / Bathurst St 219 m · 11 docks · 31 stations, 629 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 (46)
  • City As School TorontoPrivate · 215 m
  • Central Technical SchoolEnglish Public · 264 m
  • Harbord Collegiate InstituteEnglish Public · 265 m
  • King Edward Jr & Sr Public SchoolEnglish Separate · 442 m
  • Clinton Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 473 m
  • St Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 635 m
  • and 40 more
Parks (33)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Palmerston branch498 m
  • Toronto Public Library Spadina Road branch877 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1 km
Places of interest
  • Randolph Centre for the ArtsPerforming Arts · 265 m
  • Ukrainian Museum of CanadaMuseum · 718 m
  • Al Green Theatre (at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre)Performing Arts · 804 m
  • Bata Shoe MuseumMuseum · 1.1 km
  • George Ignatieff TheatrePerforming Arts · 1.2 km
  • Art Museum at the University of TorontoGallery · 1.2 km
  • Hart House TheatrePerforming Arts · 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 9 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores, and 365 eating places within a kilometre — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Eon Specialty Coffee, 33 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés9 within 300 m · 365 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 35 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Eon Specialty Coffee · 246 Harbord St33 mPassed, May 2026
Stop and GO Variety · 681 Bathurst Stgrocery104 mPassed, May 2026
Krispy Kreme Harbord · 215 Harbord St117 mPassed, Aug 2026
La Diperie · 203 Harbord St148 mPassed, Sep 2026
Bampot House of Tea and Board Games · 201 Harbord St160 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Pizza Nova · 268 Lippincott St184 mPassed, Aug 2026
Fantasy Kitchen Co · 195 Harbord St190 mPassed, Jun 2026
Three Star Variety · 621 Bathurst Stgrocery214 mPassed, Mar 2026

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, 577 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 271 m away at Healey Willan Park.

  • Bickford Park Washroom · 400 Grace St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    577 m
  • Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 485 Montrose Ave
    View centre hours
    761 m
  • Christie Pits Park Washroom · 750 Bloor St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    877 m
Drinking water
Healey Willan Park drinking fountain · 271 m; Sally Bird Park drinking fountain · 401 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

17 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,656 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care (442 m, 105 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km17 centres · 1,656 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 17
  • The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care · 112 Lippincott St
    105 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    442 m
  • Centro Clinton Day Care Centre · 460 Manning Ave
    174 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    473 m
  • Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie · 703 Bloor St W
    56 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    589 m
  • Annex Montessori School · 427 Bloor St W
    68 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    679 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 315 (702 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.6 km) and the nearest ambulance station 561 m away.

FireFire Station 315 · 702 m132 Bellevue Ave
Police14 Division · 1.6 km350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 34 · 561 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

46 registered apartment buildings with 2,769 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, seven of them social or Toronto Community Housing — 2.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is 469 Palmerston Blvd (101 m, 10 units, 3 storeys, built 1932). One building of the 46 scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 33 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 19 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings46 · 2,769 units · 7 social housing
RentSafeTO score87 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202633 across the 46
Open fire-code violations19
Tallest24 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
469 Palmerston Blvd10319320101 m
686 Bathurst St · Stein & Regency Construction Management Co.244194793 · Dec 20250114 m
456 Palmerston Blvd324190481 · Aug 20250138 m
481 Palmerston Blvd113190787 · Aug 20250140 m
748 Bathurst St · Westbank Ontario Realty Corp95122024100 · Sep 20251314 m
378 Markham St · Berkley Property Management Inc174190095 · Jul 20260319 m
153 Borden Stsocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes453198774 · Sep 20252343 m
532 Palmerston Blvd214191194 · Aug 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 lots969 lots · ≈22,600 spaces · 67.8 ha
Within 500 m47 lots · ≈860 spaces
Green P (public)28 car parks · about 2,512 spaces
EV charging (City)365 Lippincott St. · 466 m · 10 Level 2 ports
Bike parking62 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 71 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
365 Lippincott St · Surface434 m13654% (Q1 2026)
557 Palmerston Ave · Surface469 m5580% (Q1 2026)
292 Brunswick Avenue · Surface530 m19 *
675 Manning Ave · Surface553 m4981% (Q1 2026)
80 Clinton Street · Surface618 m25 *

Nearest lots: 42 m away, ≈9 spaces; 56 m away, ≈3 spaces; 63 m away, ≈6 spaces; 113 m away, ≈11 spaces; 136 m away, ≈10 spaces; 163 m away, ≈3 spaces. More EV charging: 74 Clinton Street (661 m, 4 ports); 19 Spadina Rd (917 m, 6 ports); 705 Shaw St (946 m, 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, Oct 21, 2025

The east leg carries the load — 3,227 westbound vehicles, or 57% of everything entering — while the south leg brought 8. Most cyclists arrived from the east (737 of 1,457). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 548 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 566 from 5:15 p.m. Heavy vehicles made up 2.5% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is recent, so it reflects current conditions.

From the north171southbound · 38 bikes · 5.3% heavy
From the west2,303eastbound · 644 bikes · 1.2% heavy
Total vehicles5,7092,250 pedestrians · 1,457 cyclists · 2.5% heavy
From the east3,227westbound · 737 bikes · 3.2% heavy
From the south8northbound · 38 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour548 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour566 vehicles from 5:15 p.m.
Count14-hour · Oct 21, 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 counter on Markham St between Harbord St and Herrick St (67 m away) recorded an average of 18 km/h in its 3-day count in October 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 25 km/h. That segment carries about 200 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Harbord St (224 m away, 40 km/h limit), 0.1% of the 42,159 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 50 km/h or more — almost none. 4 speed humps slow traffic on Markham Street between Lennox St and Harbord St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Markham St · Harbord St – Herrick St · 67 mOct 2025 · 3 days21918 km/h25 km/h29 km/h
Harbord St · Lucie Tuch Lane – Palmerston Blvd · 76 mMay 2010 · 3 days8,931

School-zone speed sign 224 m

Posted limit40 km/h
Median · 85th pct31 · 38 km/h
Over the limit1.0%
50 km/h or more0.1%

Harbord St (westbound), N Side Harbord St 75m E of Manning Ave · 42,159 vehicles logged in July 2026 · runs weekdays, 7 am - 9 pm.

Traffic calming

  • Markham Street · Lennox St – Harbord St
    4 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

2024 was the peak year (4 collisions), and 2025 closed with 2. 8% of collisions here involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 17% of collisions. People walking or cycling were involved in 8% of collisions here. The most recent report on file is from Aug 30, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425

Exposure-adjusted: 2.1 collisions per year per 10,000 daily vehicles, using the latest 14-hour count.

2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions12#4060 of 5,508
With an injury1#4294 of 4,660
Property damage only9
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian1#2539 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201418latest Aug 30, 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

Nothing in 2016–2025, the ten complete years the rankings use. 1 earlier KSI collision is on file, the last on Dec 1, 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 eight thefts from vehicles and nine bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — 2.8× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.7 a year. 88% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots; 44% of the bike thefts were from apartment-building parking.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle810street/outdoor (7), house driveway/garage (1)
Bicycle theft950apartment parking (4), house driveway/garage (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Oct 7, 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 Palmerston-Little Italy.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Markham & Harbord a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 12 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 Markham & Harbord?

A quiet local crossing. It ranks #1975 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 35% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Markham & Harbord?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Markham St between Harbord St and Herrick St (October 2025), found an average of 18 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 25 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 224 m away (40 km/h), 0.1% of vehicles were doing 50 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Markham & Harbord?

The nearest Green P car park is 365 Lippincott St (434 m away, 136 spaces, 54% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 969 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 22,600 spaces — 47 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 365 Lippincott St. (466 m).

How do I get to Markham & Harbord by transit?

Bathurst Station (Line 2) is 499 m away; streetcar routes 511, 506, 510 stop within 1 km, the nearest 96 m away; bus routes 94, 7, 126, 127 within 1 km (nearest stop: Harbord St at Palmerston Blvd, 84 m).

What restaurants are near Markham & Harbord?

9 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 365 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Eon Specialty Coffee (33 m), Krispy Kreme Harbord (117 m), La Diperie (148 m), Bampot House of Tea and Board Games (160 m) and Pizza Nova (184 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 Markham & Harbord?

The nearest is Bickford Park Washroom, 400 Grace St, 577 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Bob Abate Community Recreation Centre Washroom (761 m); Christie Pits Park Washroom (877 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 Markham & Harbord?

17 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,656 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are The Neighbourhood Group King Edward Child Care (442 m, 105 spaces), Centro Clinton Day Care Centre (473 m, 174 spaces) and Kids & Company Ltd. - Bloor Christie (589 m, 56 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Markham & Harbord?

46 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,769 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 469 Palmerston Blvd (101 m, 10 units), 686 Bathurst St (114 m, 24 units, RentSafeTO score 93), 456 Palmerston Blvd (138 m, 32 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 481 Palmerston Blvd (140 m, 11 units, RentSafeTO score 87). The average RentSafeTO score across the 46 is 87 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 Markham & Harbord?

Toronto Police place eight thefts from vehicles and nine 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 Markham & Harbord in?

Markham & Harbord 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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