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Pape & Gamble

Pape Ave & Gamble Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Old East York · Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth · Pape Village BIA

Pape & Gamble, in Old East York, is an intersection of typical volume, with heavy foot traffic. At the corner: a school within 250 m and parks. Nearby: 10 TTC routes within a kilometre.

Traffic volume
7,706
vehicles · 8-hour count, Jun 19, 2019
2,798 pedestrians · 110 cyclists
Collisions
97
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
18 with an injury · 60 property damage · #1151 of 5,508 · +4 since Jan 2026
KSI collisions
2
killed or seriously injured · 2016–2025
0 fatal · 2 pedestrian · 0 cyclist · #400 of 1,505
Red-light camera
None
not on the City's camera list
Transit
1
TTC stop within 100 m
7 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 19 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 960 vehicles an hour, 83% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 2.8 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. On average 9.7 collisions a year were reported here in 2016–2025 — 3.1× the median for a Toronto intersection with any collisions. The pace has been steady: 49 collisions in 2016–2020 and 48 in 2021–2025. About one in 49 of those collisions involved a death or serious injury.

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Pape & Gamble

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

TTC bus
72100878256251 nearest 17 m
Express
925
Blue Night
325322
Nearest stops
7 surface stops within 300 m — Pape Ave at Gamble Ave
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Pape Ave / Gamble Ave 79 m · 19 docks · 7 stations, 130 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 (11)
  • William Burgess Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 188 m
  • Chester Elementary SchoolEnglish Public · 372 m
  • Westwood Mdl SchoolEnglish Public · 458 m
  • Centennial College School - Carlaw CampusCollege · 640 m
  • Holy Cross Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 684 m
  • The Three Hierarchs AcademyPrivate · 909 m
  • and 5 more
Parks (21)
  • Gamble Playground190 m
  • Livingstone Park381 m
  • Westwood Park487 m
  • Agnes Macphail Square555 m
  • Arthur Dyson Parkette670 m
  • Lower Don Parklands680 m
  • and 15 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Todmorden Room branch138 m
  • Toronto Public Library Pape/Danforth branch1.4 km
  • Toronto Public Library Thorncliffe branch1.5 km
Places of interest
  • Todmorden Mills Heritage SiteLandmark · 1 km
  • Evergreen Brick WorksAttraction · 1.4 km

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 15 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 3 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 58. The nearest is Cafe Serano, 29 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in March 2026.

Restaurants & cafés15 within 300 m · 58 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience3 within 300 m · 13 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Cafe Serano · 1055 Pape Ave29 mPassed, Mar 2026
Burger King · 1068 Pape Ave36 mPassed, Apr 2026
Food Basics · 1070 Pape Avegrocery36 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 2 infractions
McDonald's · 1045 Pape Ave77 mPassed, May 2026
East York Restaurant · 1039 Pape Ave164 mPassed, May 2026 · 4 infractions
Child's Nest Infant Centre · 121 Cosburn Ave176 mPassed, Jul 2026
241 Pizza · 1029 Pape Ave199 mPassed, Feb 2026
Elmer's Fine Foods · 1027 Pape Avegrocery203 mPassed, Feb 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 East York Community Centre Washroom, 152 m away, View centre hours. A drinking fountain is 189 m away at Gamble Playground.

  • East York Community Centre Washroom · 1081 Pape Ave
    View centre hours
    152 m
Drinking water
Gamble Playground drinking fountain · 189 m; Livingstone Park drinking fountain · 385 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

Nine licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 741 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Network Child Care Services - Child's Nest Early Learning Centre (176 m, 40 spaces, infant, toddler).

Within 1 km9 centres · 741 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 9
  • Network Child Care Services - Child's Nest Early Learning Centre · 121 Cosburn Ave
    40 spaces · infant, toddler · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    176 m
  • Network - Child's Nest Early Years and Child Care Centre - 123 Cosburn · 123 Cosburn Ave
    58 spaces · toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    183 m
  • William Burgess Jr YMCA · 100 Torrens Ave
    166 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    188 m
  • Petite Maison Montessori · 126 O Connor Dr
    63 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    363 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 322 (553 m), the nearest police station 55 Division (3.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 297 m away.

FireFire Station 322 · 553 m256 Cosburn Ave
Police55 Division · 3.5 km101 Coxwell Avenue
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 41 · 297 m1300 Pape Ave

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 71 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,691 rental units, 3.1× the median for a Toronto intersection — four social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 95 Gamble Ave (79 m, 94 units, 6 storeys, built 1961), which scored 96 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. One building of the 71 scored below 70; the average is 90, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 127 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 58 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings71 · 4,691 units · 4 social housing
RentSafeTO score90 average · 1 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026127 across the 71
Open fire-code violations58
Tallest22 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
95 Gamble Ave · Q Residential946196196 · Jul 2025079 m
133 Gamble Ave · Rolin Realty Limited274196077 · Aug 2026097 m
120 Cosburn Ave · Sowein Apartments576195086 · Jun 20240102 m
100 Gamble Ave · Novi Properties15212196594 · Jul 20259119 m
100 Cosburn Ave · Greenwin Corp.1407196199 · Jul 20258128 m
130 Cosburn Ave486195692 · Jul 20250130 m
111 Cosburn Ave · Mpct Dif Cosburn Avenue GP Inc.363195596 · Nov 20253153 m
140 Cosburn Ave · Cosburn Manor Inc173196082 · Aug 20260154 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 lots502 lots · ≈25,350 spaces · 76.1 ha
Within 500 m85 lots · ≈1,650 spaces
Green P (public)14 car parks · about 575 spaces
EV charging (City)41 FULTON AVE · 1 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking41 post-and-rings within 300 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
716 Pape Ave · Surface1.2 km7475% (Q1 2026)
20 Eaton Avenue · Surface1.2 km70 *
77 Gough Ave · Surface1.2 km1783% (Q1 2026)
17 Eaton Ave · Surface1.2 km3065% (Q1 2026)
12 Woodycrest Ave · Surface1.2 km3543% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 26 m away, ≈2 spaces; 33 m away, ≈2 spaces; 42 m away, ≈10 spaces; 54 m away, ≈12 spaces; 72 m away, ≈11 spaces; 77 m away, ≈26 spaces. More EV charging: 14 Arundel Ave. (1.3 km, 8 ports); 35 Erindale Ave (1.6 km, 10 ports); 132 Chatham Ave (1.6 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, Jun 19, 2019

Traffic is heaviest from the south: 3,771 northbound vehicles entered from that leg, 49% of the total, against 299 from the east. Most cyclists arrived from the north (49 of 110). The morning and afternoon peaks are nearly equal: 1,042 vehicles in the hour from 8:15 a.m. and 1,014 from 2:45 p.m. Trucks and buses were 6.0% 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 7 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2019, 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 north3,230southbound · 49 bikes · 7.2% heavy
From the west406eastbound · 6 bikes · 2.2% heavy
Total vehicles7,7062,798 pedestrians · 110 cyclists · 6.0% heavy
From the east299westbound · 7 bikes · 1.0% heavy
From the south3,771northbound · 48 bikes · 5.8% heavy
AM peak hour1,042 vehicles from 8:15 a.m.
PM peak hour1,014 vehicles from 2:45 p.m.
Count8-hour · Jun 19, 2019

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 Gamble Ave between Pape Ave and Gamble Playground Trl, 80 m from the corner, a 3-day count in April 2024 put the average speed at 31 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 39 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 44 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,500 vehicles a day. At the school-zone speed sign on Gowan Ave (320 m away, 30 km/h limit), 2.7% of the 30,134 vehicles logged in July 2026 were doing 40 km/h or more — a small minority.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Pape Ave · Cosburn Ave – Gamble Ave · 56 mApr 2017 · 9 days8,389
Gamble Ave · Pape Ave – Gamble Playground Trl · 80 mApr 2024 · 3 days1,51731 km/h39 km/h44 km/h

School-zone speed sign 320 m

Posted limit30 km/h
Median · 85th pct23 · 32 km/h
Over the limit9.9%
40 km/h or more2.7%

Gowan Ave (westbound), Burncrest Road · 30,134 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

The worst year was 2022, with 16 collisions; 2025 recorded 10. 18 collisions (19%) involved an injury; the citywide share is 15%. 22 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 23% of collisions, a higher hit-and-run share than the city's 16%. 9 collisions involved a pedestrian or cyclist (9%) — a high share for a Toronto intersection. Since January 2026, 4 more collisions have been reported; they sit outside the ranking window. The most recent report on file is from May 8, 2026.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions97#1151 of 5,508
With an injury18#999 of 4,660
Property damage only60
Fail to remain22
Involving a pedestrian6#600 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist3#861 of 2,576
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified19
Since January 2026 (outside the window)4
All since 2014118latest May 8, 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. One of the two happened in darkness. The most recent was on Jun 18, 2022. Going back to 2006, the total is 3.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All KSI collisions2#400 of 1,505
Fatal0
Involving a pedestrian2#144 of 879
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
In darkness1
All KSI since 20063latest Jun 18, 2022

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

24 thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.0× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 4 in 2023–2025, about 1.3 a year, against 2.9 a year before that. 42% of the vehicle thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle2440street/outdoor (10), apartment parking (9)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Sep 18, 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 Old East York.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Pape & Gamble a dangerous intersection?

It is not among the worst. 2 serious-injury collisions were recorded in 2016–2025 (#400 of 1,505), out of 97 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 Pape & Gamble?

An intersection of typical volume. Its latest count is from Jun 19, 2019, 83% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Pape & Gamble?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Gamble Ave between Pape Ave and Gamble Playground Trl (April 2024), found an average of 31 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 39 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed. At the school-zone speed sign 320 m away (30 km/h), 2.7% of vehicles were doing 40 km/h or more in July 2026.

Where can I park near Pape & Gamble?

The nearest Green P car park is 716 Pape Ave (1.2 km away, 74 spaces, 75% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 502 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 25,350 spaces — 85 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 41 FULTON AVE (1.0 km).

How do I get to Pape & Gamble by transit?

Bus routes 72, 100, 87, 8, 25, 62, 51, 925 within 1 km (nearest stop: Pape Ave at Gamble Ave, 17 m).

What restaurants are near Pape & Gamble?

15 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 58 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Cafe Serano (29 m), Burger King (36 m), McDonald's (77 m), East York Restaurant (164 m) and Child's Nest Infant Centre (176 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 Pape & Gamble?

The nearest is East York Community Centre Washroom, 1081 Pape Ave, 152 m away (View centre hours). 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 Pape & Gamble?

Nine licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 741 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Network Child Care Services - Child's Nest Early Learning Centre (176 m, 40 spaces), Network - Child's Nest Early Years and Child Care Centre - 123 Cosburn (183 m, 58 spaces) and William Burgess Jr YMCA (188 m, 166 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Pape & Gamble?

71 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,691 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 95 Gamble Ave (79 m, 94 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 133 Gamble Ave (97 m, 27 units, RentSafeTO score 77), 120 Cosburn Ave (102 m, 57 units, RentSafeTO score 86) and 100 Gamble Ave (119 m, 152 units, RentSafeTO score 94). The average RentSafeTO score across the 71 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 Pape & Gamble?

Toronto Police place 24 thefts from vehicles and no 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 Old East York page.

What neighbourhood is Pape & Gamble in?

Pape & Gamble is in Old East York (City of Toronto neighbourhood 058). It is in Ward 14, Toronto-Danforth, represented by Councillor Paula Fletcher. The corner falls inside the Pape Village Business Improvement Area.

Sources

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