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Neighbourhood: Crescent Town

Crescent Town, near the intersection of Danforth Avenue East and Victoria Park Avenue, is a residential neighbourhood consisting mainly of highrise and low-rise apartment buildings, condominiums and townhouses. The distinctive Crescent Town development making up most of this area is virtually self-contained with buildings connected via above-ground walkways.

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates

March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff 55 Division, Agnes Macphail Award, armed robbery, backyard hens, band, Brad Bradford, child pornography, Greenwood Station, libraries, Opera House, road closures, robbery, sexual assault, snowstorm, Sole Power Entertainment, spitting, stabbing, theft, Toronto Police, Ukraine

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Golfer at Dentonia Park Golf Course

Keep 18-hole golf course at Dentonia Park, committee says

January 12, 2022January 20, 2022 Rodger Burnside Brad Bradford, Dentonia Park, Taylor Creek Park, Victoria Park Avenue, Walk Toronto

A city committee is urging the existing 18 holes at the Dentonia Park Golf Course be maintained, despite calls to reduce it to nine holes.

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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: July–December 2021

December 22, 2021January 18, 2022 Streeter staff 55 Division, affordable housing, assault, automated speed enforcement, bike lanes, break and enter, break-ins, car fire, collision, COVID-19, Danforth Avenue, Don Valley Parkway, East York Civic Centre, East York Hockey Associatio, East York Hockey Association, fire, flooding, fraud, Greenwood Station, homicide, Jack Layton, Julie Dabrusin, knife, libraries, luring, Malcolm Kelly, Mamma's Pizza, manslaughter, medication, Michael Garron Hospital, missing man, Monarch Park, Montcrest School, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, next of kin, O'Connor Drive, Ontario Line, pedestrian, Petition, Presteign Heights Public School, pumpkin parade, rinks, Riverdale Park East, robbery, Second City, sexual assault, shooting, Shop and Vax, stabbing, Toronto Police, Toronto Public Health, Traffic Services, vaccination, Vax the Holidays, vehicle theft, Victoria Park Avenue, Wakunda Place, Wilkinson Junior Public School, Youth Leaders of East York

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maps of areas worst hit by COVID

East-end neighbourhoods now among worst hit by COVID

December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 Streeter staff COVID-19, map, outbreaks, school closures, Toronto Public Health

East enders may be surprised to find their neighbourhoods are among the worst hit by COVID-19 in the city.

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For Kids Health & Fitness THINGS TO DO

Nov. 29: Attend town hall about kids’ vaccine online

November 15, 2021November 27, 2021 Streeter staff Cressy, Michael Garron Hospital, Paula Fletcher, town hall, vaccine

Toronto-Danforth councillor Paula Fletcher is hosting a virtual town hall on kids’ vaccines on Nov. 29 from 7 to 8 p.m.

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Local reps call for city control of cannabis shop sites

November 10, 2021November 10, 2021 Rodger Burnside Bloorcourt BIA, cannabis, Kristyn Wong-Tam, Marit Stiles, Paula Fletcher

Two councillors and a BIA manager joined MPP Marit Stiles in calling for the province to give the city more say in cannabis shops locations.

Petition aims to bring back Metro Toronto flag — with changes

November 3, 2021November 3, 2021 Dennis Hanagan logo, Metropolitan Toronto, Petition, Toronto flag

An urban geographer and an arborist plan to petition city hall to have the former Metro Toronto flag reinstated as the city’s emblem.

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*FEATURED Community Events THINGS TO DO

Nov. 1: Don’t throw your jack-o-lanterns out

October 19, 2021November 4, 2021 Streeter staff jack-o-lanterns, pumpkin, pumpkin parade, pumpkins

Instead of throwing your jack-o-lanterns out after the Halloween festivities, why not show them off in a local pumpkins parade?

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Community Events THINGS TO DO

Nov. 1: Join the east-end pumpkin parades

October 18, 2021November 4, 2021 Streeter staff Dentonia Park, East Lynn Park, jack-o-lanterns, Leslie Grove Park, pumpkin parade, pumpkins, Withrow Park

The popular pumpkin parades are back. Instead of throwing your jack-o-lanterns out after Halloween, bring it to the park on Nov. 1.

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Activism THINGS TO DO

October: Become a Neighbourhood Climate Action Champion

October 1, 2021October 2, 2021 Streeter staff climate change, environment, Neighbourhood Climate Action Champions

The city is once again seeking Neighbourhood Climate Action Champions to help inspire local green projects.

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City recreation programs back, but you’ll need to be vaccinated

September 22, 2021September 24, 2021 Rodger Burnside John Tory, proof of vaccination, recreation centres, recreation programs, registration, vaccination

Proof of vaccination will be required for most people involved in the city’s fall recreation programs with registration opening this weekend.

Toronto-Danforth and Beaches-East York election winners

Another east-end Liberal sweep in federal election

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 Rodger Burnside Beaches-East York, federal election, Julie Dabrusin, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Toronto-Danforth

Toronto-Danforth and Beaches-East York voters may have a sense of déja vu as they wake up to the 2021 federal election results this morning.

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Health & Fitness THINGS TO DO

Sept. 25, 28: Start signing up for fall recreation programs

September 11, 2021September 24, 2021 Streeter staff exercise, fitness, indoor recreation, recreation programs, sports

This fall marks the return of regular recreation programming for Toronto, where COVID-19 has impacted programming since March 2020.

$Cr\escent Town to get vaccine push$

Weekend vaccine push planned for east end

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 Rodger Burnside Beaches-East York, Brad Bradford, John Tory, Michael Garron Hospital, vaccine

The Taylor-Massey area with the lowest vaccination rates in the city is targeted for a vaccine push by Team Toronto this weekend.

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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: May–June 2021

June 30, 2021August 25, 2021 Streeter staff ActiveTO, bank robbery, beaches, Bingham Avenue, break-ins, COVID-19, East York Farmers' Market, goat, golf, invasive species, Loblaws, Michael Garron Hospital, modular housing, motorcycle crash, outdoor recreation, parking enforcement, Paula Fletcher, Peter Tabuns, rent, Riverdale Park West, road closures, robberies, snow clearing, sports, Toronto Police, town hall, traffic iights, vaccine

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THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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