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St Nicholas & St Mary

St Nicholas St & St Mary St · Toronto, Ontario · Bay-Cloverhill · Ward 13, Toronto Centre · Bloor-Yorkville BIA

St Nicholas & St Mary, in Bay-Cloverhill, in central Toronto, is a low-volume local intersection, with heavy foot traffic and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: parks. Nearby: Bloor Station (Line 1) 274 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
1,550
vehicles · 8-hour count, Oct 11, 2000
1,390 pedestrians · 150 cyclists
Collisions
13
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 10 property damage · #4009 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
Bloor Station 274 m · 1 streetcar route · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
No bikeway
nothing on the City cycling network here
Bike Share: 39 docks within 150 m

Across the 8-hour count, traffic averaged roughly 190 vehicles an hour, 17% of the median counted intersection. Foot traffic runs at about one pedestrian per 1.1 vehicles — more walking than at most counted intersections, where the median is one per 13. Cyclists were 9.7% of vehicle volume, about 12× the typical share. On average 1.3 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 Nicholas & St Mary

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Bloor Station (Line 1)274 m; Wellesley Station (Line 1)301 m; Yonge Station (Line 2)362 m; Bay Station (Line 2)375 m; Museum Station (Line 1)537 m; College Station (Line 1)765 m; Queen's Park Station (Line 1)866 m; St George Station (Line 1, Line 2)900 m; Rosedale Station (Line 1)924 m; Sherbourne Station (Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
506 nearest 358 m
TTC bus
971994137526 nearest 105 m
Blue Night
306320300
Nearest stops
12 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
no bikeway on the City cycling network touches this intersection
Bike Share
25 St. Mary St 65 m · 15 docks · 52 stations, 1,097 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 (47)
  • Humber College - International Graduate SchoolCollege · 319 m
  • St Joseph's College SchoolEnglish Separate · 410 m
  • The Abelard Centre For EducationPrivate · 447 m
  • Toronto School of Theology - U of T, Bldg 434University · 463 m
  • Rosedale Day SchoolPrivate · 466 m
  • The YMCA Academy Secondary SchoolPrivate · 489 m
  • and 41 more
Community centres
Parks (53)
  • St. Mary Street Parkette15 m
  • George Hislop Park156 m
  • Norman Jewison Park185 m
  • Clover Hill Park227 m
  • James Canning Gardens262 m
  • Dr. Lillian McGregor Park420 m
  • and 47 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Toronto Reference Library branch462 m
  • Toronto Public Library Yorkville branch483 m
  • Toronto Public Library St. James Town branch1 km
Places of interest
  • CAA Theatre (formerly Panasonic Theatre)Performing Arts · 87 m
  • The Japan FoundationMuseum · 335 m
  • Toronto Reference LibraryLandmark · 444 m
  • Village of Yorkville ParkNature/ Park · 467 m
  • Isabel Bader TheatrePerforming Arts · 471 m
  • Gardiner MuseumMuseum · 515 m
  • Buddies in Bad Times TheatrePerforming Arts · 580 m
  • Royal Ontario MuseumMuseum · 646 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 128 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 15 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 368 — 5.0× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Viet Hut Express - Charles, 66 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in August 2026.

Restaurants & cafés128 within 300 m · 368 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience15 within 300 m · 32 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Cabano's Comfort Food · 75 St Nicholas St Unit-104-105grocery31 mPassed, Jul 2026
Viet Hut Express - Charles · 25 Charles St W66 mPassed, Aug 2026
99 Grill · 692 Yonge St70 mPassed, Jul 2026
Cheese Baker · 690 Yonge St72 mPassed, Jun 2026 · 1 infraction
Joumak · 11 Charles St W72 mPassed, Mar 2026 · 1 infraction
Bez Bazaar · 688 Yonge St72 mPassed, Apr 2026 · 1 infraction
8mile Detroit Style Pizza · 9 Charles St W76 mPassed, Aug 2026 · 1 infraction
8 Mile Pizza · 9 Charles St W77 mPassed, Feb 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 Barbara Ann Scott Outdoor Rink Washroom, 936 m away — currently listed as closed (maintenance/repairs); in season it is View outdoor rink hours. A drinking fountain is 15 m away at St. Mary Street Parkette.

  • Barbara Ann Scott Outdoor Rink Washroom · 420 Yonge St
    View outdoor rink hours · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    936 m
  • Wellesley Community Centre Washroom · 495 Sherbourne St
    View centre hours
    1 km
Drinking water
St. Mary Street Parkette drinking fountain · 15 m; George Hislop Park drinking fountain · 161 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

Ten licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 771 spaces; eight accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is University of Toronto Childcare On Charles (75 m, 73 spaces, infant, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km10 centres · 771 spaces
Fee subsidy8 of 10
  • University of Toronto Childcare On Charles · 35 Charles St W
    73 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    75 m
  • YMCA Child Development Centre (YMCA) · 15 Breadalbane St
    144 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    488 m
  • Kids & Company - Bloor Street Site · 160 Bloor St E
    85 spaces · infant, toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    520 m
  • Shaawnaong Aboriginal Head Start · 30 College St
    16 spaces · preschool
    739 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 312 (486 m), the nearest police station 52 Division (1.5 km) and the nearest ambulance station 930 m away.

FireFire Station 312 · 486 m34 Yorkville Ave
Police52 Division · 1.5 km255 Dundas Street West
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 45 · 930 m135 Davenport Rd

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 112 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 15,464 rental units, 4.9× the median for a Toronto intersection — 14 social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 25 St Mary St (61 m, 260 units, 25 storeys, built 1965), which scored 92 out of 100 at its July 2024 RentSafeTO evaluation. Two buildings of the 112 scored below 70; the average is 89, about the citywide norm. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 403 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 126 fire-code violations are open across them.

Registered buildings112 · 15,464 units · 14 social housing
RentSafeTO score89 average · 2 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 2026403 across the 112
Open fire-code violations126
Tallest51 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
25 St Mary St · Briarlane Rental Property Management Inc.26025196592 · Jul 20242 · 4 fire61 m
1101 Bay St · Bentallgreenoak26528197987 · Jun 20261 · 6 fire134 m
44 Charles St W · Jll79351197291 · Aug 202412158 m
16 St Joseph St · Akelius374192789 · Nov 20251161 m
55 Charles St W · Azuria Group Incorporated14732198183 · Oct 20253182 m
8 Gloucester St · Tricon Residential231342021100 · Jul 20250188 m
26 St Joseph St · Sk Properties & Development Inc656192095 · Nov 20250190 m
30 Charles St E · 14792670 Canada Inc213191567 · Aug 20262 · 4 fire221 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 lots960 lots · ≈23,500 spaces · 70.5 ha
Within 500 m61 lots · ≈1,750 spaces
Green P (public)24 car parks · about 5,321 spaces
EV charging (City)20 Charles St E. · 181 m · 22 Level 2 + 1 fast ports
Bike parking160 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 72 bikes within 600 m · City Hall - Nathan Phillips Square bike station (1.7 km)
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
13 Isabella St · Surface166 m3073% (Q1 2026)
20 Charles St E · Garage203 m64618% (Q1 2026)
15 Wellesley St E · Surface416 m12654% (Q1 2026)
74 Yorkville Ave · Garage562 m17575% (Q1 2026)
9 Bedford Rd · Garage844 m37151% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 46 m away, ≈18 spaces; 48 m away, ≈8 spaces; 64 m away, ≈40 spaces; 70 m away, ≈7 spaces; 93 m away, ≈6 spaces; 107 m away, ≈5 spaces. More EV charging: 9 Wellesley St W. (371 m, 8 ports); 74 Yorkville Ave (525 m, 9 ports); 91 Elizabeth St (1.1 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, Oct 11, 2000

This is a three-leg intersection with no east leg. Traffic is heaviest from the west: 786 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 51% of the total, against 240 from the south. Evening rush dominates here: 255 vehicles in the peak hour from 4:30 p.m., against 228 in the morning peak from 8:00 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 3.7% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 26 years old — treat it as a snapshot of 2000, 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 north524southbound · 58 bikes · 2.5% heavy
From the west786eastbound · 42 bikes · 3.7% heavy
Total vehicles1,5501,390 pedestrians · 150 cyclists · 3.7% heavy
From the east0westbound · 9 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south240northbound · 41 bikes · 6.3% heavy
AM peak hour228 vehicles from 8:00 a.m.
PM peak hour255 vehicles from 4:30 p.m.
Count8-hour · Oct 11, 2000

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 St Mary St between St Nicholas St and La Scala Lane, 48 m from the corner, a 3-day count in May 2019 put the average speed at 23 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 32 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 35 km/h or more. That segment carries about 2,500 vehicles a day. The reading is 7 years old; the City counts on request rather than on a schedule.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
St Nicholas St · Cottage Lane – St Mary St · 28 mFeb 2001 · 2 days537
St Mary St · St Nicholas St – La Scala Lane · 48 mMay 2019 · 3 days2,54423 km/h32 km/h35 km/h

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 4 collisions; 2025 recorded 2. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 6 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 46% of collisions. 1 collision involved a pedestrian or cyclist (8%). The most recent report on file is from Nov 16, 2025.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions13#4009 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only10
Fail to remain6
Involving a pedestrian1#3041 of 3,193
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified3
All since 201413latest Nov 16, 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

Four thefts from vehicles and 21 bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — 4.2× the median for a Toronto intersection with any reported theft. The pace has slowed: 5 in 2023–2025, about 1.7 a year, against 2.9 a year before that. 43% of the bike thefts were from the street or other outdoor spots.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Reported2023–2025Since Jan 2026Most often from
Theft from a vehicle420apartment parking (3), street/outdoor (1)
Bicycle theft2130street/outdoor (9), apartment parking (9)

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Aug 28, 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 Bay-Cloverhill.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is St Nicholas & St Mary a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 13 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 Nicholas & St Mary?

A low-volume local intersection. Its latest count is from Oct 11, 2000, 17% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at St Nicholas & St Mary?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on St Mary St between St Nicholas St and La Scala Lane (May 2019), found an average of 23 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 32 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near St Nicholas & St Mary?

The nearest Green P car park is 13 Isabella St (166 m away, 30 spaces, 73% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 960 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 23,500 spaces — 61 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 20 Charles St E. (181 m).

How do I get to St Nicholas & St Mary by transit?

Bloor Station (Line 1) is 274 m away; streetcar route 506 stop within 1 km, the nearest 358 m away; bus routes 97, 19, 94, 13, 75, 26 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near St Nicholas & St Mary?

128 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 368 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Viet Hut Express - Charles (66 m), 99 Grill (70 m), Cheese Baker (72 m), Joumak (72 m) and Bez Bazaar (72 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 Nicholas & St Mary?

The nearest is Barbara Ann Scott Outdoor Rink Washroom, 420 Yonge St, 936 m away (View outdoor rink hours). The City currently lists it as closed: maintenance/repairs. Next nearest: Wellesley Community Centre Washroom (1.0 km). 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 Nicholas & St Mary?

Ten licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 771 spaces in total; 8 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are University of Toronto Childcare On Charles (75 m, 73 spaces), YMCA Child Development Centre (YMCA) (488 m, 144 spaces) and Kids & Company - Bloor Street Site (520 m, 85 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near St Nicholas & St Mary?

112 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 15,464 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 25 St Mary St (61 m, 260 units, RentSafeTO score 92), 1101 Bay St (134 m, 265 units, RentSafeTO score 87), 44 Charles St W (158 m, 793 units, RentSafeTO score 91) and 16 St Joseph St (161 m, 37 units, RentSafeTO score 89). The average RentSafeTO score across the 112 is 89 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 St Nicholas & St Mary?

Toronto Police place four thefts from vehicles and 21 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 Bay-Cloverhill page.

What neighbourhood is St Nicholas & St Mary in?

St Nicholas & St Mary is in Bay-Cloverhill (City of Toronto neighbourhood 169). It is in Ward 13, Toronto Centre, represented by Councillor Chris Moise. The corner falls inside the Bloor-Yorkville Business Improvement Area.

Sources

Every figure on this page comes from one of these datasets — how they are joined