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Sylvan & Gladstone

Sylvan Ave & Gladstone Ave · Toronto, Ontario · Dufferin Grove · Ward 9, Davenport

In Dufferin Grove, in central Toronto, Sylvan & Gladstone is a lightly travelled intersection, with pedestrians outnumbering vehicles and significant cycling traffic. At the corner: a bike lane and a park. Nearby: Dufferin Station (Line 2) 674 m away. No one has been killed or seriously injured here in the last ten years of records.

Traffic volume
435
vehicles · 14-hour count, Jun 25, 2024
1,820 pedestrians · 598 cyclists · #2384 busiest
Collisions
8
police-reported, any severity · 2016–2025
0 with an injury · 6 property damage · #4550 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
Dufferin Station 674 m · 3 streetcar routes · 6 bus routes within 1 km
Cycling
Bikeway
Bike Lane - Contraflow
Bike Share: 15 docks within 150 m

The latest City count averages about 30 vehicles an hour over its 14-hour span, 3% of the median counted intersection. Pedestrians outnumber vehicles 4.2 to 1 — rare for a Toronto intersection, where the median is one pedestrian for every 13 vehicles. Cyclists were 137.5% of vehicle volume, about 177× the typical share. On average 0.8 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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Sylvan & Gladstone

Getting here

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

Transit & cycling

Subway
Dufferin Station (Line 2)674 m; Ossington Station (Line 2)850 m; Lansdowne Station (Line 2)1 km
Streetcar
506505512 nearest 264 m
TTC bus
29402634794161 nearest 127 m
Express
929
Blue Night
306305329300363
Nearest stops
10 surface stops within 300 m
Cycling
Bike Lane - Contraflow on Gladstone Ave installed 2022
Bike Share
Havelock St / Dewson St 142 m · 15 docks · 27 stations, 475 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 (26)
  • St Mary Catholic Academy Secondary SchoolEnglish Separate · 315 m
  • St Helen Catholic Elementary SchoolEnglish Separate · 471 m
  • Brock Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 526 m
  • Bloor C.i. & Alpha Ii AlternativeEnglish Public · 602 m
  • The Orchard Montessori SchoolPrivate · 612 m
  • Dewson Street Jr Public SchoolEnglish Public · 633 m
  • and 20 more
Parks (30)
  • Dufferin Grove Park156 m
  • Salem Parkette709 m
  • Westmoreland Avenue Parkette743 m
  • Harrison-Dovercourt Parkette763 m
  • Dundas - St.clarens Parkette799 m
  • Susan Tibaldi Parkette804 m
  • and 24 more
Library
  • Toronto Public Library Bloor/Gladstone branch576 m
  • Toronto Public Library College/Shaw branch939 m
Places of interest
  • Museum of Contemporary Canadian ArtGallery · 1.1 km
  • The Theatre CentrePerforming Arts · 1.5 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 40 eating places within 300 m of this corner, plus 4 grocery and convenience stores; within a kilometre the count is 349 — 4.8× the median for a Toronto intersection. The nearest is Dufferin Grove Park - Club House Kitchen, 203 m away, which passed its last DineSafe inspection in May 2026.

Restaurants & cafés40 within 300 m · 349 within 1 km
Grocery & convenience4 within 300 m · 51 within 1 km
Nearest food premisesDistanceLatest DineSafe inspection
Dufferin Grove Park - Club House Kitchen · 875 Dufferin St203 mPassed, May 2026
Trillium Investment Group of Companies Inc · 137 Havelock St206 mPassed, Mar 2026
Citrus Coffee · 1104 College St246 mPassed, Jun 2026
Arabesque · 1068 College St247 mPassed, Aug 2026
The Common · 1071 College St255 mPassed, Apr 2026
Star Convenient Store · 740 Dufferin St265 mPassed, Apr 2026
Elim Restaurant and Cafe · 1105 College St277 mPassed, Jul 2026
Tavoos · 1120 College St279 mPassed, Nov 2025 · 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 Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom, 233 m away, open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; it is wheelchair-accessible. A drinking fountain is 77 m away at Dufferin Grove Park.

  • Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · accessible
    233 m
  • Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom · 875 Dufferin St
    View outdoor rink hours
    267 m
  • Macgregor Playground Washroom · 346 Lansdowne Ave
    9 a.m. to 10 p.m. · closed — Maintenance/Repairs
    826 m
Drinking water
Dufferin Grove Park drinking fountain · 77 m; Dufferin Grove Park drinking fountain · 238 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

15 licensed child care centres within a kilometre offer 1,215 spaces; ten accept City fee subsidy. The nearest is Westside Montessori School (88 m, 35 spaces, toddler, preschool).

Within 1 km15 centres · 1,215 spaces
Fee subsidy10 of 15
  • Westside Montessori School · 57 Sylvan Ave
    35 spaces · toddler, preschool
    88 m
  • Denisa Childcare · 1065 College St
    30 spaces · toddler, preschool · $10-a-day
    262 m
  • West End Jr YMCA · 931 College St
    85 spaces · toddler, preschool, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    510 m
  • Brock Early Learning Centre · 93 Margueretta St
    133 spaces · toddler, preschool, kindergarten, school age · fee subsidy · $10-a-day
    526 m

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

Emergency services

The nearest fire hall is Fire Station 426 (1.2 km), the nearest police station 14 Division (625 m) and the nearest ambulance station 765 m away.

FireFire Station 426 · 1.2 km140 Lansdowne Ave
Police14 Division · 625 m350 Dovercourt Road
AmbulanceAmbulance Station 33 · 765 m760 Dovercourt 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 35 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings — 2,183 rental units — five social or Toronto Community Housing. The nearest is 1094 College St (234 m, 19 units, 3 storeys, built 1950), which scored 88 out of 100 at its July 2025 RentSafeTO evaluation. Four buildings of the 35 scored below 70; the average is 83, below the 90 typical of Toronto intersections. The Landlord and Tenant Board issued 49 final orders naming these buildings in the latest half-year of its catalogue, and 1 fire-code violation is open across them.

Registered buildings35 · 2,183 units · 5 social housing
RentSafeTO score83 average · 4 below 70
LTB orders, Jan 2026 – Jun 202649 across the 35
Open fire-code violations1
Tallest20 storeys
Nearest buildingsUnitsStoreysBuiltScoreLTB ordersDistance
1094 College St193195088 · Jul 20250234 m
1044 College St · Hannah Property Management Ltd.433193083 · Sep 20260235 m
1 Havelock St · Havelock Apartments183190581 · Jul 20250288 m
919 Dufferin St · CLV Group11315197191 · Jul 20251335 m
34 Heydon Park Rd · Cogir Real Estate313192594 · Jul 20265449 m
46 Delaware Avesocial housing · Neighbours Community Homes143200783 · Jul 20251466 m
323 Rusholme Rd · Sterling Karamar Property Management22620196887 · Jun 202511471 m
410 Dovercourt Rd133193090 · Jul 20260496 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 lots705 lots · ≈20,940 spaces · 62.8 ha
Within 500 m23 lots · ≈1,600 spaces
Green P (public)23 car parks · about 1,055 spaces
EV charging (City)685 Dovercourt Rd · 573 m · 2 Level 2 ports
Bike parking33 post-and-rings within 300 m · racks for 32 bikes within 600 m
Green P car parkDistanceSpacesPeak occupancy
9 Bonar Pl · Surface290 m3471% (Q1 2026)
7 Bartlett Ave · Surface666 m3763% (Q1 2026)
9 Salem Ave · Surface672 m3374% (Q1 2026)
146 Harrison St · Surface785 m7968% (Q1 2026)
9 Emerson Ave · Surface829 m4963% (Q1 2026)

Nearest lots: 184 m away, ≈7 spaces; 269 m away, ≈8 spaces; 285 m away, ≈28 spaces (Green P); 306 m away, ≈3 spaces; 311 m away, ≈4 spaces; 314 m away, ≈28 spaces. More EV charging: 283 Ossington Ave (1 km, 2 ports); 705 Shaw St (1 km, 2 ports); 248 Shaw St (1.3 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 — 14-hour, Jun 25, 2024

Traffic is heaviest from the west: 278 eastbound vehicles entered from that leg, 64% of the total, against 23 from the east. Evening rush dominates here: 52 vehicles in the peak hour from 5:00 p.m., against 37 in the morning peak from 8:30 a.m. Heavy vehicles made up 1.4% of traffic (typical: 3.2%). For scale, a typical counted intersection in Toronto sees 16,183 vehicles over 14 hours. The count is 2 years old; the City recounts intersections on an ad-hoc schedule, so volumes may have shifted since.

From the north43southbound · 159 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the west278eastbound · 99 bikes · 1.4% heavy
Total vehicles4351,820 pedestrians · 598 cyclists · 1.4% heavy
From the east23westbound · 161 bikes · 0.0% heavy
From the south91northbound · 179 bikes · 2.2% heavy
AM peak hour37 vehicles from 8:30 a.m.
PM peak hour52 vehicles from 5:00 p.m.
Count14-hour · Jun 25, 2024

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 Sylvan Ave between Havelock St and Gladstone Ave, 64 m from the corner, a 7-day count in September 2025 put the average speed at 19 km/h and the 85th-percentile speed at 29 km/h, with the fastest one in twenty at 33 km/h or more. That segment carries about 600 vehicles a day. Gladstone Ave between Lane N of College and W of Gladstone and Lindsey Ave measured slower: 15 km/h on average and an 85th percentile of 23 km/h (Sep 2025). 2 speed humps slow traffic on Gladstone Avenue between College St and Sylvan Ave.

Street segmentCountedVehicles / dayAverage85th percentile95th
Sylvan Ave · Havelock St – Gladstone Ave · 64 mSep 2025 · 7 days60519 km/h29 km/h33 km/h
Gladstone Ave · Lane N of College and W of Gladstone – Lindsey Ave · 165 mSep 2025 · 7 days93615 km/h23 km/h27 km/h

Traffic calming

  • Gladstone Avenue · College St – Sylvan Ave
    2 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

The worst year was 2017, with 3 collisions; 2025 recorded 0. 0 collisions (0%) involved an injury. 2 drivers failed to remain at the scene — 25% of collisions. None of the collisions in the window involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The most recent report on file is from Jun 4, 2021.

By year

16171819202122232425
2016–2025Collisions
All reported collisions8#4550 of 5,508
With an injury0
Property damage only6
Fail to remain2
Involving a pedestrian0
Involving a cyclist0
Involving a motorcyclist0
With a fatality0
Severity not classified2
All since 201411latest Jun 4, 2021

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

Five thefts from vehicles and no bike thefts were reported around this corner in 2016–2025 — about the median for an intersection with any reported theft. 100% 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 vehicle510street/outdoor (5)
Bicycle theft000

Source: Toronto Police Service, Theft From Motor Vehicle and Bicycle Thefts open data, records through Jan 31, 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 Dufferin Grove.

Nearby intersections

Questions

Is Sylvan & Gladstone a dangerous intersection?

Not by the record: no one was killed or seriously injured here in 2016–2025, though police reported 8 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 Sylvan & Gladstone?

A lightly travelled intersection. It ranks #2384 of 2,390 counted intersections for vehicles, 3% of the median for a counted intersection.

How fast do cars go at Sylvan & Gladstone?

The City's most recent speed count near the corner, on Sylvan Ave between Havelock St and Gladstone Ave (September 2025), found an average of 19 km/h and an 85th-percentile speed of 29 km/h — meaning 85% of drivers were at or below that speed.

Where can I park near Sylvan & Gladstone?

The nearest Green P car park is 9 Bonar Pl (290 m away, 34 spaces, 71% full at the daily peak in Q1 2026). The City's mapping shows 705 parking lots of any kind within 2 km — roughly 20,940 spaces — 23 of them within 500 m; most are private or customer-only lots. The nearest City EV charger is at 685 Dovercourt Rd (573 m).

How do I get to Sylvan & Gladstone by transit?

Dufferin Station (Line 2) is 674 m away; streetcar routes 506, 505, 512 stop within 1 km, the nearest 264 m away; bus routes 29, 402, 63, 47, 94, 161, 929 within 1 km.

What restaurants are near Sylvan & Gladstone?

40 restaurants, cafés and takeouts are within 300 m, and 349 within a kilometre, according to Toronto Public Health's DineSafe inspection list. The closest are Dufferin Grove Park - Club House Kitchen (203 m), Trillium Investment Group of Companies Inc (206 m), Citrus Coffee (246 m), Arabesque (247 m) and The Common (255 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 Sylvan & Gladstone?

The nearest is Dufferin Grove Sports Field Washroom, 875 Dufferin St, 233 m away (open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), with an accessible washroom. Next nearest: Dufferin Grove Park Outdoor Rink Washroom (267 m); Macgregor Playground Washroom (826 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 Sylvan & Gladstone?

15 licensed child care centres within 1 km, with 1,215 spaces in total; 10 accept City fee subsidy and some are in the $10-a-day (CWELCC) program. The nearest are Westside Montessori School (88 m, 35 spaces), Denisa Childcare (262 m, 30 spaces) and West End Jr YMCA (510 m, 85 spaces). Spaces are licensed capacity, not vacancies.

What apartment buildings are near Sylvan & Gladstone?

35 RentSafeTO-registered apartment buildings with 2,183 rental units are within 1 km. The nearest are 1094 College St (234 m, 19 units, RentSafeTO score 88), 1044 College St (235 m, 43 units, RentSafeTO score 83), 1 Havelock St (288 m, 18 units, RentSafeTO score 81) and 919 Dufferin St (335 m, 113 units, RentSafeTO score 91). The average RentSafeTO score across the 35 is 83 out of 100; 4 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 Sylvan & Gladstone?

Toronto Police place five 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 Dufferin Grove page.

What neighbourhood is Sylvan & Gladstone in?

Sylvan & Gladstone is in Dufferin Grove (City of Toronto neighbourhood 083). It is in Ward 9, Davenport, represented by Councillor Alejandra Bravo.

Sources

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