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Agree with the above. There is now a terrace area adjacent to the Grange's portico that could be used for a nice little terrace café, and maybe the tearoom facility inside could be upgraded to operate it.

Looking eastward from NPS, the tower will have a powerful presence (reduced and re-posted from Wednesday):

As a former resident of the neighbourhood, I'm happy to see it's now possible to enter the park from the east side, under the OCAD tabletop. For one thing, this eliminates the amazingly ugly little parking lot with its chain-link fences Kids love the place, for good reason: We may not...

Wednesday. No longer an archaeological dig, now clearly a construction site.

Agreed. Add the conspicuous neglect and the effect is, to say the least, depressing

Condolences

Aha. The dumpster's destiny, or at least destination, revealed

Fewer pigeons! More dumpsters!

I hope there's nothing else this absurd. Neither the federal aviation folks nor Ports Toronto could allow anything that tall, that close to airport runways.

I have no technical expertise to offer on this subject, just a thought: would it not make sense to offer a fast, convenient, and non-stressful travel connection between IT skills supply (Kitchener-Waterloo) and demand (Toronto)? Build that much of a high-speed service as a pilot project and...

I have now done what I should have done in the first place, properly researching the Sir Adam Beck fountain. My finding is that I owe @DSC an apology for suggesting, in effect, that he didn't know what he was talking about. Turns out I was the one who didn't know what he was talking about, as I...

I am here quite often. Forgive me if I have not committed your complaints to memory. But thanks for returning to my original point, which was that we who care about the Berczy fountain, and others, need to raise our voices from time to time. I gather we can agree on that much.

@DSC, here's a suggestion. Tear yourself away from your screen, get yourself over to Queen and University, and take a look at the monument in question. It was designed so that water would emerge from underneath the statue of Beck. There is no catchbasin or other means of directing rainwater in...

Yes, maintenance is crucial and Toronto's record in keeping fountains (or for that matter, parks) in good order is not great. I suspect it's one of those budgets that is quietly shaved, over and over again, whenever council needs to show its Respect for Taxpayers. Those of us who love the good...

Remember, this work was done in the early 1950s. Concrete technology was much less advanced than now. I don't have precise timelines, but the timbers across the I-beams became the road surface while work went on below, section by section, not the entire length of the project. And that involved...

The refurbished façade of the old post office is emerging. This from Lakeshore and Stavebank. East side: Detail A future café terrace overlooking the village marina?

May 27

Sometimes they do make 'em like they used to: Upper photo TWA Terminal (Eero Saarinen), Idlewild Airport (now JFK), New York, 1962. (Photo from Pinterest) Lower photo: York University Station (Foster & Partners), Toronto, 2017

Saturday

Back before the name Terauley was applied to Alice St., it was the name of the street running north of Queen that we now know as Bay. So at that point the Bay streetcar would have been the Terauley trolley (couldn't resist).