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[URBAN NOTE] "Falling glass shut down Bay St. for second day in a row"
The Toronto Star's Alina Bykova and Emma McIntosh report on Bay Street's problem with falling glass.
Glass fell from the Sick Kids Centre for Research and Learning for the second day in a row on Thursday morning ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "Bay St. condos cost more than those on Yonge corridor, study says"
The Toronto Star's Tess Kalinowski reports on condo prices in the downtown core.
A couple of blocks can make a $41,000 difference on the price of a condo in Toronto ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "TTC Lost Articles is Toronto's strangest lost and found"
Matt Switzer's brief post at blogTO caught my interest.
Every day at around 1 p.m., more than 200 lost and forgotten items from TTC vehicles and properties are delivered to the TTC Lost Articles Office located in the Bay subway station ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "Japanese influence is seeping into downtown Toronto"
One interesting thing about this trend, as described by the Toronto Star's Karon Liu, is that I'm not aware of this being accompanied by extra immigration. Any Japanese diaspora to downtown Toronto is substantially one of culture, not people.
“This is the guy on the bag,” I say, pointing at 68-year-old Tetsushi Mizokami to the people queuing ( Read more... ) -
[URBAN NOTE] "Downtown residents get early look-see at possibilities for new Wellesley Street park"
I blogged in the past about the prospects of putting up a park on vacant land owned by condo developers on Wellesley Street, between Yonge and Bay. Yonge Street Media's Paul Gallant reports on early proposals for such a park.
[T]his week, residents got a peek at what the 1.6-acre park slated for Wellesley Street between Bay and Yonge streets could ( Read more... ) -
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- D-Brief reports on Ceres' bright spots.
- Dangerous Minds celebrates the video game arcades of the 1980s.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating that tightly-packed globular clusters might be good cradles for life.
- The Dragon's Tales examines the processes by which gravel is formed on Mars and Titan.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog wonders about the ( Read more... )
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[URBAN NOTE] "How a luxurious Toronto hotel gets turned into a condo"
In a gorgeous photo essay, blogTO's Derek Flack notes just how the Sutton Place Hotel is being transformed into a condo.
A remarkable transformation is taking place at Bay and Wellesley streets. As the former Sutton Place Hotel is being converted to a condo that will be known as the Britt, the original building has been stripped to its bones ( Read more... )
