[PHOTO] Looking off a rooftop patio, Yonge Eglinton Centre

[PHOTO] Snowstorm on a rooftop patio, Yonge Eglinton Centre

[PHOTO] East along Eglinton

[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links

• NOW Toronto reports on the long-time independent weekly’s sale to a venture capital firm, here.
• The Yonge-Eglinton Centre now hosts a venue where people can nap in peace. Toronto Life has photos, here.
• The family of North York van attack victim Anne-Marie D’Amico hopes to raise one million dollars for a women’s shelter. The National Post reports.
• Toronto Community Housing, after a terrible accident, has banned its tenants from having window air conditioners. Global News reports.
• blogTO reports on the ridiculous heights to which surge pricing took ride fares on Uber and Lyft during yesterday morning’s shutdown.
• blogTO notes that the Ontario government has provided funding to study the idea of extension of the Eglinton Crosstown west to Pearson Airport.

[PHOTO] Yonge and Eglinton crowding in

[VIDEO] Fountain lights changing colour, Yonge-Eglinton Centre

[PHOTO] Four photos of Toronto as seen from the patio of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre

Toronto had several centimetres of spring snow fall today, a last gasp of winter at the start of spring. The city below did look nice from the rooftop patio of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, the snow lightly covering the changing city beyond. Construction on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line was visible below, as is the Eglinton station itself as it undergoes work, preparing to become an interchange station come the Crosstown’s completion in 2021.

[PHOTO] Looking southwest, Yonge-Eglinton Centre

[PHOTO] Midtown Toronto as the first snow comes down, looking southwest

Yesterday’s snowfall was the first serious amount of snow Toronto has gotten this season. I went to the rooftop patio of the Yonge Eglinton Centre to take a look at the city at this time.

[PHOTO] Blue framed by Roehampton, Yonge and Eglinton

The afternoon sky looking up Yonge Street at Eglinton Saturday afternoon was a glorious clear blue, perfectly framed by the towers rising on either side.