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St Lawrence & Old Foundry

St Lawrence St & Old Foundry Rd · Toronto, Ontario · St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands · Ward 13, Toronto Centre

St Lawrence & Old Foundry is a lightly travelled intersection, with significant cycling traffic. It sits in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands, in central Toronto. At the corner: parks. Nearby: 13 TTC routes within a kilometre. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
2,230
vehicles · 8-hour count, Sep 16, 2021
190 pedestrians · 142 cyclists
Collisions
11
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 7 property damage · #4199 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
5 streetcar routes · 4 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 280 vehicles an hour, 24% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 12 vehicles, close to the citywide median. Cyclists were 6.4% of vehicle volume, about 8.2× 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. No one was killed or seriously injured in any of them.

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St Lawrence & Old Foundry

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Streetcar
503504508501505 nearest 233 m
TTC bus
12120265114 nearest 161 m
Blue Night
304301305365
Nearest stops
9 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
Bayview Ave / Lawren Harris Square 101 m · 15 docks · 33 stations, 662 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)
  • Inglenook Community SchoolEnglish Public · 347 m
  • George Brown College - Young Centre For the Performing ArtsCollege · 472 m
  • St Paul Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 529 m
  • Nelson Mandela Park Public SchoolEnglish Public · 577 m
  • Voice Integrative Private SchoolPrivate · 645 m
  • Liberty Prep SchoolPrivate · 765 m
  • and 13 more
Parks (47)
  • Lawren Harris Square87 m
  • Underpass Park115 m
  • Diamond Jubilee Promenade151 m
  • Percy Park197 m
  • Corktown Common226 m
  • King/Queen Triangle285 m
  • and 41 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Queen/Saulter branch793 m
  • Toronto Public Library St. Lawrence branch1.2 km
  • Toronto Public Library Riverdale branch1.2 km
Places of interest
  • Young Centre for the Performing ArtsPerforming Arts · 470 m
  • Soulpepper Theatre CompanyPerforming Arts · 480 m
  • The Distillery Historic DistrictLandmark · 595 m
  • Thompson Landry Gallery - Stone Building & Cooperage SpaceGallery · 687 m
  • Illuminarium TorontoAttraction · 691 m
  • Native Earth Performing Arts & Aki StudioPerforming Arts · 805 m
  • Alumnae TheatrePerforming Arts · 816 m
  • Canadian Stage (Berkeley Street Theatre)Performing Arts · 837 m

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 16 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 6 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 215 — 2.9× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Aisle 24, 25 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in June 2026 with 1 infraction noted.

Restaurants & cafés16 within 300 m · 215 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience6 within 300 m · 27 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Aisle 24 · 1 St Lawrence St25 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Lisbon Hotel · 19 Lawren Harris Sq39 mPassed, Aug 2025
Lost Craft Brewery · 482 Front St E A & B129 mPassed, Feb 2026 · 2 infractions
Sukhothai · 460 Front St E135 mPassed, Jul 2026
Bb.q Chicken · 470 Front St E #16c136 mPassed, Jun 2026
Barburrito · 464 Front St E Unit-2143 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Dixon Neighbourhood Homes · 30 St Lawrence St148 mPassed, Aug 2026
Canary Market · 440 Front St Egrocery185 mPassed, Jul 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 Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom, 275 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. A drinking fountain is 86 m away at Underpass Park.

  • Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom · 155 Bayview Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
    275 m
  • Regent Park Athletic Grounds Outdoor Rink Washroom · 480 Shuter St
    View outdoor rink hours · accessible
    551 m
  • Regent Park Community Centre Washroom · 402 Shuter St
    View centre hours
    649 m
Drinking water
Underpass Park drinking fountain · 86 m; Underpass Park drinking fountain, dog fountain · 120 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

11 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 872 spaces; seven accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Eyet Early Learning Centre (Tom's Place) (529 m, 52 spaces, toddler, preschool, kindergarten).

Within 1 km11 centres · 872 spaces
Fee subsidy7 of 11
  • Eyet Early Learning Centre (Tom's Place) · 80 Sackville St
    52 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    529 m
  • George Brown - Nelson Mandela Child Care Centre · 440 Shuter St
    179 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    577 m
  • Kinder College Early Learning Centre · 25 Nicholas Ave
    103 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    589 m
  • Boulton Avenue Child Care Centre · 131 Broadview Ave
    72 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    707 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 325 (928 m), the nearest police station 51 Division (638 m) and the nearest ambulance station 1.6 km away.

FireFire Station 325 · 928 m475 Dundas St E
Police51 Division · 638 m51 Parliament Street
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 43 · 1.6 km126 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 36 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 4,714 rental units — 28 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 20 Palace St (155 m, 108 units, 10 storeys), which scored 96 out of 100 at its December 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. None scored below 70; the average is 92, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 93 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 58 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings36 · 4,714 units · 28 social housing
RentSafeTO score92 average · none below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202693 across the 36
Open fire-code violations58
Tallest29 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
20 Palace Stsocial housing · Fred Victor Centre1081096 · Dec 20250155 m
45 St Lawrence StToronto Community Housing · TCH504198096 · Jun 20264156 m
40 Lower River StToronto Community Housing · TCH594201497 · Jun 20260172 m
75 Cooperage Stsocial housing · Wigwamen Incorporated14512201698 · Nov 20255203 m
585 King St EToronto Community Housing · Toronto Community Housing Corporation1288201499 · Nov 20250205 m
540 Queen St EToronto Community Housing · TCH446198493 · Nov 20251346 m
181 Mill St · Tricon Residential Inc310262022100 · Jul 202523 · 14 fire346 m
151 Mill St · Tricon Residential Inc232162022100 · Jul 20258 · 13 fire357 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 lots736 lots · ≈37,590 spaces · 112.8 ha
Within 500 m71 lots · ≈1,950 spaces
Green P (public)22 car parks · about 5,079 spaces
EV charging (City)220 Carlaw Ave. · 1.4 km · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking206 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 104 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
83 Tannery Road · Garage98 m27 *
100 Cooperage Street · Garage208 m86 *
40 Rolling Mills Rd. · Garage238 m25 *
373 Front Street East · Surface443 m450 *
70 Distillery Lane · Garage549 m103 *

Nearest lots: 41 m away, ≈59 spaces; 83 m away, ≈59 spaces (Green P); 105 m away, ≈15 spaces; 108 m away, ≈3 spaces; 125 m away, ≈13 spaces; 140 m away, ≈35 spaces. More EV charging: 51 Dockside Dr. (1.5 km, 5 ports); 51 Dockside Dr (1.5 km, 6 ports); 188 Carlton St (1.7 km, 1 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, Sep 16, 2021

This is a three-leg intersection with no south leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 1,001 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 45% of the total, against 374 from the north. Most cyclists arrived from the west (64 of 142). Unusually, the morning peak is the heavier one — 335 vehicles in the hour from 8:30 a.m., 8% above the afternoon peak from 5:00 p.m. (309). Heavy vehicles made up 3.6% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 5 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2021, 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 north374southbound · 37 bikes · 1.9% heavy
From the west1,001eastbound · 64 bikes · 3.6% heavy
Total vehicles2,230190 pedestrians · 142 cyclists · 3.6% heavy
From the east855westbound · 41 bikes · 4.4% heavy
From the south0northbound · 0 bikes · 0.0% heavy
AM peak hour335 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour309 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count8-hour · Sep 16, 2021

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 Old Foundry Rd between St Lawrence St and Lawren Harris Sq, 24 m from the corner, a 24-hour count in August 2003 put the average speed at 38 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 49 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 57 km/h or more. That segment carries about 1,100 vehicles a day. The reading is 23 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Old Foundry Rd · St Lawrence St – Lawren Harris Sq · 24 mAug 2003 · 24 h1,06938 km/h49 km/h57 km/h
St Lawrence St · Trolley Cres – King St E · 165 mMay 2021 · 7 days1,066

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 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 5 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 45% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from May 12, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions11#4199 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only7
Fail to remain5
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified4
All since 201411latest May 12, 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

No collision involving a death or serious injury has been recorded within 65 m of this intersection since the record begins in 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

Three thefts from vehicles and two bike thefts were reported around this corner 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 vehicle310street/outdoor (3)
Bicycle theft200apartment parking (2)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jul 2, 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 St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is St Lawrence & Old Foundry 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 St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

A lightly travelled intersection. Its latest count is from Sep 16, 2021, 24% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Old Foundry Rd between St Lawrence St and Lawren Harris Sq (August 2003), found an average of 38 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 49 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

The nearest Green P car park is 83 Tannery Road (98 m away, 27 spaces). The City's mapping shows 736 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 37,590 spaces — 71 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 220 Carlaw Ave. (1.4 km).

How do I get to St Lawrence & Old Foundry by transit?

Streetcar routes 503, 504, 508, 501 and 1 more stop within 1 km, the nearest 233 m away; bus routes 121, 202, 65, 114 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

16 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 215 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Aisle 24 (25 m), Lisbon Hotel (39 m), Lost Craft Brewery (129 m), Sukhothai (135 m) and Bb.q Chicken (136 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 St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

The nearest is Corktown Common Pavilion Washroom, 155 Bayview Ave, 275 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.). Next nearest: Regent Park Athletic Grounds Outdoor Rink Washroom (551 m); Regent Park Community Centre Washroom (649 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 St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

11 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 872 spaces in total; 7 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Eyet Early Learning Centre (Tom's Place) (529 m, 52 spaces), George Brown - Nelson Mandela Child Care Centre (577 m, 179 spaces) and Kinder College Early Learning Centre (589 m, 103 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

36 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 4,714 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 20 Palace St (155 m, 108 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 45 St Lawrence St (156 m, 50 units, RentSafeTO score 96), 40 Lower River St (172 m, 59 units, RentSafeTO score 97) and 75 Cooperage St (203 m, 145 units, RentSafeTO score 98). The average RentSafeTO score across the 36 is 92 out of 100. 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 St Lawrence & Old Foundry?

Toronto Police place three thefts from vehicles and two 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 St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands page.

What neighbourhood is St Lawrence & Old Foundry in?

St Lawrence & Old Foundry is in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands (City of Toronto neighbourhood 166). It is in Ward 13, Toronto Centre, represented by Councillor Chris Moise.

Sources

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