2 Gamble Ave
Toronto, Ontario M4K
A 3-storey, 12-unit private rental building built in 1950.
- Property manager
- Arilex Apartment Travel Lodge
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Issues & maintenance
Leaks, outages, repairs: dated reports from residents. None filed yet.
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City bylaw and health cases
4 bylaw investigations at this address since Dec 2024; 1 notice or order to comply.
A case starts with a complaint or an officer’s visit, so it is not a finding against the building. In a condo, a complaint about one unit is filed under the building’s address.
- Repairs and upkeep 3
- Not enough heat 1
- Jun 2026
Not enough heatBylaw· Closed
Case 26 173855 000 00 IR
- Jun 2026
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 26 173854 000 00 IR
- Dec 2024
Repairs and upkeepBylawOrder to comply · Dec 2024· Closed
- Stairway – Throughout Building: The stair guard when measured vertically from the stair nosing is less than 900 millimetres high.Namely, the height of the guards, currently installed for the exit stairs, are approximately 780 millimetres, instead of the required 900 mill… (closed)
- Stairway Landing – Throughout Building: Guard is less than 1,070 millimetres high.Namely, the height of the guards, currently installed for the exit stairs, around landings, are approximately 780 millimetres, instead of the required 1,070 millimetres. (closed)
Case 24 245836 PRS 00 IV
- Dec 2024
Repairs and upkeepBylaw· Closed
Case 24 245613 PRS 00 IR
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City building permits
3 permits the City has issued at this address since 2000 - repairs, alterations and system work that needed one. Official records, not resident reports.
- Alterations 2
- Fire and life safety 1
- Jun 2020
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Interior alterations as per Fire Services Inspection report
Permit 20 154123 BLD · est. $30,000
- Apr 2020
Fire and life safety · Other(FS) · Closed
PROPOSED: FIRE CODE REMEDIAL WORK
Permit 20 139772 FSU · est. $30,000
- Feb 2001
Alterations · Interior Alterations · Closed
Make interior alterations on 1st floor to add 2 piece washroom in existing storage area.
Permit 01 112510 CMB · est. $1,000
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From City of Toronto open data
Neighbourhood
Living score
56/ 100
Each category is ranked against every other Toronto building on this site: 70 means better than 70% of them.
- Transit56
46.7 departures an hour at the morning peak within 500 m, on 6 routes. Nearest subway or LRT: Chester (2 Bloor-Danforth Line), 1.3 km.
- Parks & trees87
38.3 ha of parkland within 800 m; nearest park 220 m. 389 street trees within 300 m.
- Cycling78
Within 1 km: 1.2 km of protected lanes, 6.3 km of bike lanes and trails, 1.75 km of shared routes. 2 Bike Share stations within 500 m.
- Schools nearby29
4 public or Catholic schools within 1 km (nearest: Chester Elementary School , 310 m). Distance only: being near a school does not mean being in its catchment.
- Daily amenities44
Within 1 km: 1 library, 1 community centre, 9 licensed child care centres.
- Road safety31
4 collisions with serious injury or death within 500 m, 2021–2025, 1 fatal. Fewer scores higher.
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Also worth knowing
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Safety
Broadview North
- AssaultAbout typical
Higher than 51 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (about the city median).
- Break and enterAbout typical
Lower than 72 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (77% of the city median).
- RobberyAmong the lowest
Lower than 97 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (27% of the city median).
- Auto theftLower than most
Lower than 84 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (57% of the city median).
- Theft from vehiclesLower than most
Lower than 79 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (78% of the city median).
- Theft over $5,000Lower than most
Lower than 78 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (68% of the city median).
- Bicycle theftAbout typical
Higher than 70 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.9× the city median).
- ShootingsHigher than most
Higher than 84 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (2.2× the city median).
- HomicideAbout typical
Higher than 63 of every 100 Toronto neighbourhoods (1.2× the city median).
How often police recorded each crime for every resident of the whole neighbourhood, averaged over 2023–2025. Places many people visit but few live in, like downtown, rank high for that reason alone, so this is not part of the living score.
Air
Don Valley Parkway, 390 m away
None reported
Bands: traffic is high within 150 m of an expressway and moderate within 500 m; industrial is moderate under a tonne a year and high above. The industrial bands are ours, for orientation only: ChemTRAC totals mix substances of very different toxicity. Releases are self-reported to the City’s ChemTRAC program. For today’s readings see Air Quality Ontario.
Supervised consumption services
- Nearest site
- Casey House Inpatient Supervised Consumption Services, 3.0 km
- Sites within 1 km
- 0
Sites currently offering services, from Health Canada, updated 2026-09-15. Sites open and close; check the list for current status.
Zoning
Residential Apartment
- Category
- Apartment
- Zone label
RA (d2.0)- Height limit
- Set by the zone
Zoning By-law 569-2013, from City of Toronto open data. Exceptions (“x” numbers) and site-specific amendments can change what is allowed; check the City’s zoning map before relying on it.
Nearby change
- Open planning applications within 300 m
- 4
- Registered short-term rentals at this address
- 0
16 Cosburn Ave · 100 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2022-04-26
Applicaton for a 25-storey residential building inclusive of a 6-storey podium having a gross floor area of 19,263 square metres (FSI 8.94). The application includes 299 residential dwelling units, incuding 29 rental replacement units. A
City record5 Cosburn Ave · 140 m away
Site plan · Under Review · submitted 2022-04-26
Application for a 24-storey resdidential building inclusive of a four-storey podium, consisting of 424 residential units. The proposal also consists of 186 vehicle parking spaces and 425 bike parking spaces. The site includes a public pa
City record
Rezonings, site plans and subdivisions submitted in the last five years and still open.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Data as of 2026-10-03. Transit from TTC weekday schedules; parks, trees, cycling, schools, libraries, community centres, child care, collisions, crime, expressways, ChemTRAC releases, planning applications and short-term rental registrations from open.toronto.ca; Bike Share stations from Bike Share Toronto; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada.
From CMHC and the City of Toronto
Rent
Average rents nearby
Monthly rent in purpose-built rental apartments, October 2025.
| Bedrooms | Broadview North | East York zone | Toronto region |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $1,463 | $1,339 | $1,491 |
| 1 bed | $1,597 | $1,578 | $1,761 |
| 2 beds | $1,922 | $1,820 | $2,045 |
| 3+ beds | $2,258 | $2,178 | $2,294 |
| All units | $1,687 | $1,715 | $1,917 |
Averages over every unit, including long tenancies under rent control, so they run below what a new lease costs today. Condominium units rented out by their owners are not included. “-” means too few units were surveyed to publish. Source: CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada.
Rent reductions after property-tax cuts
When a rental property’s tax falls by more than 2.49%, Ontario law cuts its rents by a matching share, and the City writes to the tenants.
The City’s lists for 2014–2025 have no rent-reduction notices for this address.
Source: City of Toronto, Tenant Notification for Rent Reduction, 2014–2025.
Building facts
From the City of Toronto’s RentSafeTO registry, as reported by the landlord (registered 2023). Not resident reviews.
95 / 100City inspection score, September 2026. How buildings are scored
- Type
- Private rental
- Storeys
- 3
- Units
- 12
- Built
- 1950
- Elevators
- 0
- Managed by
- Arilex Apartment Travel Lodge
- Heating
- Forced air gas
- Air conditioning
- Individual units
- Laundry
- Basement of building, 8AM TO 8 PM
- Pets
- Allowed
- Parking
- Surface parking
- Visitor parking
- Unavailable
- Balconies
- No
- Smoke-free building
- Yes
- Sprinklers
- Yes
- Cooling room
- No
- Ward
- 14
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Source dataset.
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