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This morning was beautiful, an exemplar of what spring mornings can be.
The northwest corner of Dupont Street and Bartlett Avenue once hosted the downtown Toronto outpost of Affinity Luxury Car Rentals. The business has been closed down for months, and a banner advertises that this space is available.
[PHOTO] Two photos of 1286 Dupont Street
May. 10th, 2019 09:35 am
https://www.point2homes.com/CA/Home-For-Rent/ON/Toronto/Davenport/1286-Dupont-Street/57673974.htmlOnce home to a U-Haul outpost, this kiosk with attached land across Dupont Street from the Galleria Mall was advertised for sale at a quarter-million dollars before it was bought some time ago. Neatly renovated, this is now available for renters at a price of $C 3500 a month. Suggested uses include dry cleaning, vehicle rental services, or a garden centre.
The sky yesterday evening as I headed home, north on Dufferin and then east on Dupont, was glorious, luminiscent, with bright clouds being chased at speed by high winds above me.
Last night was electric.
- Steve Munro takes a look at future transit connections for the waterfront centered on Union Station.
- The location of the vast parking lot of Yorkdale Mall is under consideration for transformation into a new high-rise neighbourhood. CBC reports.
- Sully's Boxing Gym, on Dupont in Dovercourt Village, is fighting to--if not remain in its current location--survive somewhere. The Toronto Star reports.
- Metrolinx has offered to restore direct bus service to York University if that university, in turn, paid students nearly one million dollars to compensate them for their added transit costs. The Toronto Star reports.
- blogTO identifies five particularly odd objects found underground in Toronto, here.
- Toronto Life reports on David Silber, a Scarborough-born man who has become one of the world's most remarkable and innovative chefs.
- The Ottawa Citizen reports on the tragic death of musician Justin Haynes, who came to my attention with his moving writings in NOW Toronto on the affordable housing crisis.
The winter Toronto has been having so far has seen quite a lot of snow--more, it has seen quite a lot of precipitation generally, slush and even rain--and the temperatures have been hovering just below freezing. When I got off the 161 Rogers Road bus last night at 11 o'clock, the trees were coated with ice, glittering under streetlights.
I had yesterday off, and slept in late, so I only ended up getting out of my apartment and onto my street by 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The white-out conditions surprised me: I could barely see to the end of the block.
Still, I was up, I was dressed, and I was already out. I took first the 29 Dufferin bus south and then the subway east over to Bathurst and Bloor to do some errands.
(The site of the old Honest Ed’s, currently a construction site, struck me as very photo-worthy with its warm bright colours.)
I ended up afterwards taking a little trip and headed west to Jane station, there to board the 26 Dupont bus and be dropped off practically at my warm home at 5 o’clock, with my cats and with my storm chips.
I just hope I will not have to dig out too much snow tomorrow morning.
Still, I was up, I was dressed, and I was already out. I took first the 29 Dufferin bus south and then the subway east over to Bathurst and Bloor to do some errands.
(The site of the old Honest Ed’s, currently a construction site, struck me as very photo-worthy with its warm bright colours.)
I ended up afterwards taking a little trip and headed west to Jane station, there to board the 26 Dupont bus and be dropped off practically at my warm home at 5 o’clock, with my cats and with my storm chips.
I just hope I will not have to dig out too much snow tomorrow morning.
- blogTO takes a look at a Dupont Street two-bedroom apartment with the astonishingly cheap monthly rent of just $902.
- CBC Toronto notes a new shelter for homeless women at Dupont and Davenport.
- Gilbert Ngabo at the Toronto Star looks at the desperate state of emergency housing for the homeless in Toronto.
- Transit Toronto looks at new TTC proposals for revised transit routes and schedules in The Junction.
- TTC parking lots, facing pressures for residential redevelopment, may become major political issues. CBC reports.
Yesterday was a glorious day.
- Urban Toronto notes that 1 Yorkville is nearing completion.
- Urban Toronto notes the plans for the massive redevelopment of Davenport Village, north and west of Dupont and Lansdowne.
- The Sony Centre is now going to be called Meridian Hall, thanks to the Ontario credit union of the same name buying the name rights. blogTO reports.
- This story of a tenant who was deprived heating by her landlords' neglect is appalling. I hope things get fixed quickly for her. Global News reports.
- Declan Keogh reports in NOW Toronto that the funding problems of Pride Toronto are linked to the police ban enacted in 2016.
- This Nicholas Hune-Brown feature at Toronto Life about the crisis of homelessness in Toronto is terribly compelling in sharing these stories.
- This Toronto Life feature on the installations on the seventh floor of the Hudson's Bay makes this place very visit-worthy.
