Chuck
Senior Member
IHow does it feel like North York? There aren't any buildings there yet! Well other than Infinity, and even that has good fundamentals (ie, street retail) even if the architecture is medicre. So what specifically don't you like about the area? Other than the lack of historic buildings, I don't see how it'll be fundamentally different from the financial district.
Sorry, I'll have to disagree. Development south of the highway just doesn't look to be emerging as very pedestrian-friendly, and therefore not very urban:
I decline to comment on each area's relative quality of architecture or pedestrian friendliness. But what I can say is this: I'd take NYCC over the waterfront any day. South of Front is boring, exceptionally dreary in the winter, windy, and feels isolated and disconnected from the city. There's nothing on a local or small scale to give it a neighbourhood feel.
The same could arguably be said about NYCC, but to me it feels like it's part of something, and connected to downtown by the subway. Whenever I am heading away from Harbourfront, I feel uplifted getting off the subway in the city.