[PHOTO] 511 Bathurst, waiting

[PHOTO] Panorama photo, forest of cranes, southwest at Bathurst and Bloor

[PHOTO] Forest of cranes, southwest at Bathurst and Bloor

[PHOTO] Three photos looking east from Bathurst and Front

I was walking Tuesday night to the Museum of the Moon at the Bentway, coming west from the downtown, when I turned around where Front connected to Bathurst Street and decided to look back.

[PHOTO] Looking north, Temperance west of Yonge

Wednesday evening, I stood on Temperance Street and looked north.

[PHOTO] Pedestrian crossing Dupont at Vesta Lunch

[PHOTO] Crane against twilight sky over the Honest Ed’s site

[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links: politics, transit, pop culture, photos

• CBC Toronto bids farewell, fittingly at TCAF time, to the iconic Jason Loo Toronto comic series The Pitiful Human-Lizard.
• At blogTO, Tanya Mok reports on the resistance of tenants at 54-56 Kensington Avenue to an illegal eviction order by their landlord.
• The Toronto Star reports</u. on a new matchmaking event intended to connect future roommates to each other.
• Kevin Ritchie at NOW Toronto reports on how a new pricing scheme for the AGO, including a $35 annual pass for people over 25, reflects a push to try to get more people into museums.
• Glenn Sumi writes at NOW Toronto about the increasingly steep price of ticket prices for live theatre in Toronto.
• Toronto Life shares photos from an exhibit, by Patrick Cummins and Ivaan Kotulsky, of Queen Street West in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the emptying of an old warehouse of collectibles and oddities on Wabush, part of the decline of old storied Toronto.
• Toronto Life shares more photos from outdoor market Stackt, at Front and Bathurst.
• Steve Munro starts to analyse traffic patterns on the 501 Queen streetcar, looking first at the Neville Loop end.
• NOW Toronto is one of a few news sources to report on Scarborough writer Téa Mutonji and her new short story collection Shut Up, You’re Pretty.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: transit, Christie Pits, Bathurst, Jollibee, King, Galleria Mall

• At Spacing, John Lorinc notes that mayor John Tory is allowing waterfront transit plans to get delayed.
• blogTO notes that there is apparently controversy over the correct spelling of Christie Pits.
• CBC Toronto profiles the humble apartment at Bathurst and St. Clair that was home to Ernest Hemingway.
• These photos of stackt, at Bathurst and Front, look amazing. Retail Insider has them.
• blogTO notes that three new Jollibee locations are scheduled to open in 2020, including one downtown at Yonge and Gould.
• Making the King Street pilot project permanent is at least a small victory for Toronto. CBC reports.
• Urban Toronto shares the remarkable plans for the transformation of the Galleria Mall.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Park Wyatt, Hunny Pot, Queens Quay, Yonge survey, Stackt

• blogTO shows what the Park Wyatt, at Bloor and Avenue Road, will look like after renovations.
• Toronto Life takes a look inside the Hunny Pot, the first legal marijuana shop in Toronto.
• blogTO notes preliminary plans for a new community centre on the waterfront at Queens Quay.
• Transit Toronto notes that geophysical surveying will be ongoing for the Yonge Line extension.
• Samantha Edwards writes at NOW Toronto about Stackt, an innovative new market made of shipping containers at Fort York and Bathurst.