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I intentionally made my way down to Yonge Street after midnight in order to witness the city celebrating the Toronto Raptors' victory over the Golden State Warriors. The crowds were huge, though well-behaved; everyone, it seemed, was united behind the goal of celebrating this sports victory.
Yesterday evening was rather cooler and wetter than I would have wanted, below 20 degrees and rainy. The clouds, it was pointed out to me, were so low as to touch towers in Yorkville just a couple dozen stories above the ground. Still, it was walkable, and the clouds and the wet did produce interesting effects.
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- Steve Munro looks at the latest TTC quarterly report on crowding.
- Urban Toronto looks at the new expansion to Robarts Library.
- Urban Toronto looks at 2221 Yonge Street, latest tower to rise at Yonge and Eglinton.
- Urban Toronto looks at a new condo development taking advantage of the Line 1 extension into Vaughan.
- The subletting of apartments has become key for Toronto renters who want to keep their affordable housing while also being mobile. The Toronto Star reports.
- Transit Toronto notes that both the Eglinton Crosstown yards and Lower Bay station were open this weekend past for Doors Open. I got to see both!
- Urban Toronto looks at the newly revealed Eglinton Crosstown vehicles.
- blogTO observes the rapid flooding faced not only by the Toronto Islands but by the waterfront generally.
- blogTO reports on the exciting possibility of a ferry connecting Etobicoke, at Humber Bay Shores, to the downtown.
- Building a linear park over the subway trench between Davisville and Eglinton stations in midtown Toronto is an idea that appeals to me. blogTO reports.
- NOW Toronto reports on a slew of original coffee shops around Toronto, including a laundromat hybrid on Dufferin.
- Urban Toronto celebrates the Ron Arad sculpture Safe Hands at One Bloor East.
- This blogTO ranking of the best and the worst McDonald's restaurants in Toronto makes sense to me.
- I look forward to what an audit of the campaign finances of alt-right poster child Faith Goldy's mayoral campaign will reveal. The Toronto Star reports.
- This article at TVO notes that cuts in school lunches for needy children in Toronto should not necessarily be blamed on the Ford government.
- Urban Toronto looks back at Yonge and College before yet another of the intersection's transformations.
- This initiative by a Scarborough church to rebuild itself in such a way as to create affordable housing for its neighbourhood is certainly innovative. The Toronto Star reports.
I am not sure that this photograph truly caught the light of Monday evening, with what must have been a brilliant sunset shining barely through the grey clouds.
- Urban Toronto looks at the excavation site of Liberty Market Tower in Liberty Village.
- blogTO notes that the Canada Goose has returned to Toronto, and that some geese have begun to defend their reclaimed territories.
- This Heather Mallick column at the Toronto Star about her accidental (and unsuccessful) impromptu stabbing of an errant raccoon is just bizarre.
- Many of the witnesses of the Yonge Street van attack last year are still struggling. Global News reports.
- The Katherine Laidlaw profileat Toronto Life of Alek Minassian, perpetrator of last year's van attack on Yonge Street, is timely. Still: How did he come to that point in his life where that atrocity made sense?
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The sky at Yonge and Eglinton last night was gorgeous, blue fading to pink on the southern and western horizons through the towers.
[PHOTO] "No Crossing," Yonge and Eglinton
Apr. 12th, 2019 10:40 pmConstruction of the Eglinton Crosstown continues to wreak havoc with, among other places, the crosswalks at Yonge and Eglinton.
