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Niagara & Mitchell

Niagara St & Mitchell Ave · Toronto, Ontario · West Queen West · Ward 10, Spadina-Fort York

Niagara & Mitchell, in West Queen West, in central Toronto, is a low-volume local intersection, with a well-used cycling route through it. It has 2 schools within 250 m and a park at the corner. Nearby: 12 TTC routes within a kilometre. Its serious-injury record over the last decade is clean.

Traffic volume
1,961
vehicles · 8-hour count, Feb 7, 2023
568 pedestrians · 144 cyclists
Collisions
11
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4196 of 5,508
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
6 streetcar routes · 1 bus route within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 76 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 250 vehicles an hour, 21% of the median counted intersection. There is roughly one pedestrian for every 3 vehicles, a higher share of people on foot than the typical counted intersection (one per 13). Cyclists were 7.3% of vehicle volume, about 9.5× the typical share. On average 1.1 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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Niagara & Mitchell

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
501504508511505509 nearest 150 m
TTC bus
63 nearest 408 m
Blue Night
301304305363307
Nearest stops
5 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Niagara St / Richmond St W 80 m · 42 docks · 52 stations, 1,110 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 (19)
  • Niagara Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 114 m
  • Discovering Minds Montessori SchoolPrivate · 169 m
  • St Mary Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 391 m
  • Charles G Fraser Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 429 m
  • Givins Shaw Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 702 m
  • Alpha Alternative & Oasis AlternativeEnglish Public · 893 m
  • and 13 more
Parks (42)
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch882 m
  • Toronto Public Library Fort York branch934 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • Factory TheatrePerforming Arts · 523 m
  • Theatre Passe MuraillePerforming Arts · 692 m
  • Fort York National Historic SiteMuseum · 729 m
  • iArts MuseumMuseum · 788 m
  • Graffiti AlleyLandmark · 938 m
  • Arcadia EarthAttraction · 1 km
  • Exhibition PlaceConvention & Trade Centres · 1.1 km
  • Enercare CentreConvention & Trade Centres · 1.1 km

Around the corner

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

Restaurants & food

There are 66 restaurants, cafés and takeouts within 300 m of the corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores, and 364 eating places within a kilometre — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Ihalo Krunch, 135 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in April 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés66 within 300 m · 364 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 36 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Three Stars Food and Grocery · 241 Niagara Stgrocery84 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Assos Turkish Market and Coffee · 260 Niagara Stgrocery106 mPassed, Jan 2026
Ihalo Krunch · 831 Queen St W135 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
The Wing Spot · 841 Queen St W Unit-1143 mPassed, Dec 2025 · 3 infractions
Desi Bar & Grill · 815 Queen St W151 mPassed, Aug 2026
Kebab Bazari · 839 Queen St W152 mPassed, Jul 2026
Thai Elephant · 813 Queen St W Unit-Main153 mPassed, May 2026
Venerosa Gelato · 801 Queen St W157 mPassed, Jan 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 Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom, 212 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 214 m away at Stanley Park North - Toronto.

  • Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom · 890 King St W
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    212 m
  • Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom · 700 Wellington St W
    View outdoor pool hours
    315 m
  • Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom · 155 Crawford St
    View centre hours · accessible
    488 m
Drinking water
Stanley Park North - Toronto drinking fountain · 214 m; Stanley Park South - Toronto drinking fountain · 326 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

13 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 865 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Garrison Creek Community Day Care (114 m, 152 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age).

Within 1 km13 centres · 865 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 13
  • Garrison Creek Community Day Care · 222 Niagara St
    152 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    114 m
  • Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. · 905 King St W
    50 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    412 m
  • Fraser School - Community Day Care Centre · 79 Manning Ave
    136 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    429 m
  • Trinity Bellwoods Community Children's Group/Care (Crawford Street) · 155 Crawford St
    35 spaces · school age · fee subsidy
    506 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 331 (299 m), the nearest police station 14 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 1.5 km away.

FireFire Station 331 · 299 m33 Claremont St
Police14 Division · 1.5 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

22 registered apartment buildings with 3,691 rental units stand within a kilometre of the corner, ten of them social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 798 Richmond St W (69 m, 525 units, 13 storeys, built 1970), which scored 89 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 22 scored below 70; the average is 87, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 42 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 2 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings22 · 3,691 units · 10 social housing
RentSafeTO score87 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202642 across the 22
Open fire-code violations2
Tallest31 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
798 Richmond St W · Akelius Canada Ltd52513197089 · Jul 2025769 m
800 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Homes First Society503198788 · Aug 20260121 m
15 Gore Vale Ave · Terrance Goldthorpe103192645 · Aug 20260284 m
575 Adelaide St WToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation15011198384 · Aug 20241446 m
165 Bathurst St · Hazelview Properties Inc476191879 · Jul 20251509 m
900 Queen St Wsocial housing · Artscape Non-Profit Housing Inc.223199681 · Jul 20241515 m
115 Euclid Ave163193088 · Jul 20260528 m
552 Adelaide St Wsocial housing · Par-Med Property Services Inc.845200593 · Jul 20250555 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 lots760 lots · ≈27,810 spaces · 83.4 ha
Within 500 m69 lots · ≈1,160 spaces
Green P (public)25 car parks · about 2,438 spaces
EV charging (City)10 Palmerston Ave · 350 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking192 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 76 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
803 Richmond St W · Surface126 m4856% (Q1 2026)
1030 King Street West - garage entrance via Shank St. · Garage643 m152 *
201 Claremont St · Surface793 m4361% (Q1 2026)
18 Ossington Ave · Surface810 m20over 100% (Q1 2026)
15 Denison Ave · Surface829 m12054% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 49 m away, ≈6 spaces; 75 m away, ≈9 spaces; 77 m away, ≈9 spaces; 84 m away, ≈6 spaces; 112 m away, ≈4 spaces; 112 m away, ≈13 spaces. More EV charging: 10 Portland St (863 m, 4 ports); 248 Shaw St (883 m, 2 ports); 1051 Queen Street W (912 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 — 8-hour, Feb 7, 2023

This is a three-leg intersection with no west leg. The north leg carries the load — 724 southbound vehicles, or 37% of everything entering — while the east leg brought 526. Most cyclists arrived from the north (71 of 144). The afternoon peak is the heavier one — 327 vehicles in the hour from 5:00 p.m., 9% above the morning peak from 8:15 a.m. (299). Heavy vehicles made up 3.8% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). The citywide median for a 14-hour count is 16,183 vehicles. The count is 4 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2023, 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 north724southbound · 71 bikes · 2.6% heavy
From the west0eastbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
Total vehicles1,961568 pedestrians · 144 cyclists · 3.8% heavy
From the east526westbound · 14 bikes · 4.6% heavy
From the south711northbound · 59 bikes · 4.5% heavy
AM peak hour299 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour327 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Feb 7, 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 Niagara St between Stanley Ave and Adelaide St W (116 m away) recorded an average of 27 km/h in its 14-day count in September 2025; 85% of drivers were at or under 35 km/h. That segment carries about 3,400 vehicles a day. Mitchell Ave between Lane W of Tecumseth and N of Mitchell and Niagara St measured slower: 23 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 30 km/h (Nov 2023). 4 speed humps slow traffic on Mitchell Avenue between Tecumseth St and Niagara St.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Mitchell Ave · Lane W of Tecumseth and N of Mitchell – Niagara St · 113 mNov 2023 · 3 days1,22323 km/h30 km/h34 km/h
Niagara St · Stanley Ave – Adelaide St W · 116 mSep 2025 · 14 days3,43227 km/h35 km/h40 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Mitchell Avenue · Tecumseth St – Niagara 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

2019 was the peak year (3 collisions), and 2025 closed with 0. 0% of collisions here involved an injury. 4 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 36% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Oct 20, 2024.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11#4196 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only7
Fail to remain4
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201414latest Oct 20, 2024

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 four thefts from vehicles and six bicycle thefts at this intersection in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. The pace has been steady at around 1.0 a year. 83% of the bike thefts were from house driveways and garages.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle410house driveway/garage (2), street/outdoor (2)
Bicycle theft620house driveway/garage (5), street/outdoor (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 West Queen West.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Niagara & Mitchell a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 11 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 Niagara & Mitchell?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Feb 7, 2023, 21% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Niagara & Mitchell?

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 Niagara & Mitchell?

The nearest Green P car park is 803 Richmond St W (126 m away, 48 spaces, 56% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 760 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 27,810 spaces — 69 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 10 Palmerston Ave (350 m).

How do I get to Niagara & Mitchell by transit?

Streetcar routes 501, 504, 508, 511 and 2 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 150 m away; bus route 63 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Niagara & Mitchell?

66 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 364 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Ihalo Krunch (135 m), The Wing Spot (143 m), Desi Bar & Grill (151 m), Kebab Bazari (152 m) and Thai Elephant (153 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 Niagara & Mitchell?

The nearest is Stanley Park North Toronto Playground Washroom, 890 King St W, 212 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Stanley Park South Outdoor Pool Washroom (315 m); Trinity Community Recreation Centre Washroom (488 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 Niagara & Mitchell?

13 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 865 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Garrison Creek Community Day Care (114 m, 152 spaces), Downtown Kids Academy, Inc. (412 m, 50 spaces) and Fraser School - Community Day Care Centre (429 m, 136 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Niagara & Mitchell?

22 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 3,691 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 798 Richmond St W (69 m, 525 units, RentSafeTO score 89), 800 Adelaide St W (121 m, 50 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 15 Gore Vale Ave (284 m, 10 units, RentSafeTO score 45) and 575 Adelaide St W (446 m, 150 units, RentSafeTO score 84). The average RentSafeTO score across the 22 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 Niagara & Mitchell?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and six 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 Niagara & Mitchell in?

Niagara & Mitchell 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