[PHOTO] Sixteen photos wandering down Ossington from Dupont to Bloor

[PHOTO] Looking south down an alley off Dupont

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: Hearn, laneway houses, Artscape, Coffee Time, Mmmuffins, Lilly Singh

• blogTO reports that the Hearn Generating Station is set to become a public space again this summer with a party.
• Laneway housing in Toronto, now legalized, is starting to take shape as an architectural form. The Toronto Star reports.
• The new Artscape Weston Common project for artists at Weston Road and Lawrence will hopefully help a neighbourhood taking on a new form. The Toronto Star reports.
• A redditor at r/Toronto confirms that the venerable Coffee Time outside of Jane station, supposedly closed for renovations, will not reopen.
• The last Mmmuffins store in Toronto, somewhere in the PATH, is also set to close. blogTO reports.
• The selection of Toronto-born Lilly Singh to be the next late-night host on NBC really breaks all sorts of boundaries. VICE reports.

[PHOTO] Three photos of back vistas and one selfie

[PHOTO] Looking south, Perly Family Lane

[PHOTO] Two alleys east off of Lansdowne Avenue, one south and north of Lappin

[PHOTO] Alley off Church, south of Queen

[PHOTO] Alley south off Wallace Avenue, Junction Triangle

I walked home last night from the west, passing from Dundas West station and up over the rails over the Wallace pedestrian bridge and down onto Wallace Street on the far side. The soft rain, in the light of evening, lent itself to beauty.

[URBAN NOTE] Not a public laneway, east of Queen’s Park

Signs notwithstanding, this laneway separating all these condo towers does at least look like a real street.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: the Toronto Public Library, Hanlan’s, parks, and Montréal laneways

• blogTO notes that the Toronto Reference Library will be holding a huge sale again next week.
• Inside Toronto profiles Sephora Hussein, new collection head of the Merril Collection.
• Michael Lyons writes about the importance of the newly-reopened Hanlan’s beach on the Toronto Islands.
• Jake Tobin Garrett argues at Torontoist for the importance of the proposed Rail Deck Park.
• Emily Macrae argues at Torontoist there is much Toronto can learn from the green–literally–laneways of Montréal.