[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: 1919, condos, Long Branch, transit, Walk-Up Weekdays, sakura
- Jamie Bradburn shares some editorials from Toronto newspapers in 1919 reacting to the city’s general strike.
- CBC Toronto reports on the growing number of 311 complaints about short-term rentals in many condo complexes, like the Ice Condos.
- blogTO profiles an excellent-looking condo at 1100 Lansdowne Avenue, on Lansdowne near Davenport.
- Tess Kalinowski writes at the Toronto Star about controversies in Long Branch regarding lot severance. How can this old community densify?
- Edward Keenan writes at the Toronto Star about the point that a transit shelter enclosed on four sides did not make, and the point that it did perhaps make inadvertantly.
- The Toronto Public Library announces its Walk-Up Weekdays program, where this month possession of a library card can give someone free admission to a city museum.
- The Toronto cherry blossom festival in High Park will start this weekend, with road closures starting Saturday. Global News reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 3, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Posted in Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with architecture, condos, davenport, flowers, high park, history, lansdowne avenue, long branch, mass transit, museums, neighbourhoods, parks, politics, spring, toronto, toronto general strike, toronto public library, ttc, Urban Note