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Main Square plans for Danforth develipments

Community presented with developments to transform East Danforth

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Rodger Burnside 0 Comment Brad Bradford, City Planning, Danforth Avenue, Dawes Road, development, intensification, Main Street, schools

Massive developments are about to transform East Danforth, bringing multiple highrises and thousands of additional residents.

East York Civic Centre entrance

Meetings THINGS TO DO

Feb. 3: East-end town hall meeting on budget

January 27, 2023January 31, 2023 Streeter staff Brad Bradford, budget, East York Civic Centre, Gary Crawford, Paula Fletcher

East-end residents discuss the city’s 2023 budget at a town hall meeting at East York Civic Centre on Feb. 3 from 6 to 8 p.m.

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

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

Marietta Fox in Beach Hill header

Beaches-Leslieville Daily Updates

March 6, 2022March 7, 2022 Streeter staff 55 Division, Alter Kakers, arrest, assault, automated speed enforcement, Beach Guild of Fine Art, Brad Bradford, break and enter, comedy, COVID-19, crossing guard, entertainment hubs, Fearless Meat, Film Industry, fire, firearm, flag, Fox Theatre, fraud, heritage, homicide, Housing Now, indecent exposure, Jimmie Simpson Park, Julie Dabrusin, Kew Gardens, knives, libraries, Mamma's Pizza, Mercedes, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Neighbourhood Climate Action Champions, patios, Paula Fletcher, prowler, pumpkin parade, pumpkins, rinks, Shop and Vax, stabbing, theft, threatening, Toronto Police, Ukraine, Victoria Park Avenue

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Beaches-Leslieville neighbourhoods.

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.

Villiers Island on the waterfront

*FEATURED Meetings THINGS TO DO

Dec. 8: Find out what’s happening on the waterfront

December 1, 2021December 3, 2021 Streeter staff Brad Bradford, Paula Fletcher, town hall, Villiers Island, waterfront

Councillor Brad Bradford and Paula Fletcher are hosting an online town hall meeting on the waterfront’s big construction projects.

$Cr\escent Town to get vaccine push$

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.

parking lot site for modular housing

Modular housing projects to go ahead, council decides

June 9, 2021June 10, 2021 Rodger Burnside Bracebridge Avenue, Brad Bradford, Cedarvale Avenue, city council, East York Cares, homeless housing, homelessness, John Tory, modular housing, Trenton Avenue

The city is moving ahead with two modular housing initiatives, including a project in East York that has raised local controversy.

Sidewalk snow clearing

Snow clearing extended to all city’s sidewalks, council decides

June 9, 2021June 9, 2021 Rodger Burnside Brad Bradford, city council, John Tory, sidewalks, snow clearing

City councillors have voted to extend snow clearing to about 1,300 kilometres of sidewalks not already receiving the service.

Little league picture for community sport story

When can we play ball again? city asks

May 15, 2021May 17, 2021 Dennis Hanagan baseball, Brad Bradford, East Toronto Baseball Association, Ontario Baseball Association, sports

City council has adopted a motion from Councillor Brad Bradford asking the Ontario government for a plan to safely restart community sports.

Riverdale Collegiate

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: March–April 2021

April 30, 2021November 16, 2021 Streeter staff ActiveTO, arson, automated speed enforcement, bank robberies, baseball, Bermondsey Transfer Station, Brad Bradford, break and enter, child luring, COVID-19, Danforth Avenue, Dentonia Park Golf Course, development, Eastern Avenue, fatality, Green Party, gunshots, home invasion, Jane Anderson, knife, live music, Loblaws, luring, medication, Michael Garron Hospital, missing person, Paula Fletcher, pedestrian, Peter Tabuns, power outage, Puppetmongers Theatre, SafeTO, school closures, shooting, smoke alarms, Toronto Police, vaccine, wheelchair

A quick look at news, views and things to do in Riverdale-East York neighbourhoods.

Jane Anderson header

Beaches-Leslieville Daily Updates: March–April 2021

April 30, 2021June 21, 2021 Streeter staff ActiveTO, automated speed enforcement, Beach Metro, Bermondsey Transfer Station, Brad Bradford, Danforth Avenue, Eastern Avenue, golf, Green Party, Jane Anderson, live music, Loblaws, luring, Michael Garron Hospital, missing person, power outages, Puppetmongers Theatre, SafeTO, vaccinations, wheelchair

A quick look at the latest news, views and things to do in Beaches-Leslieville neighbourhoods.

Live music venue Danforth Music Hall

Help bring back live music, Bradford and BIAs urge premier

April 29, 2021April 30, 2021 Rodger Burnside Brad Bradford, Broadview Danforth BIA, Danforth Music Hall, Doug Ford, live music, live streaming, TABIA

Councillor Brad Bradford has joined Toronto’s BIAs in a letter to Premier Doug Ford lamenting recent restrictions on live streaming music.

Jane Anderson picking up litter on beach

Picking up butts tops resident’s efforts to clean up beaches

April 26, 2021April 30, 2021 Dennis Hanagan A Greener Future, Ashbridges Bay, beaches, Brad Bradford, Jane Anderson, Kew-Balmy Beach, litter, Mark Mattson, Paula Fletcher, R.C. Harris Treatment Plant, Swim Drink Fish, Toronto Lakefront Community, Woodbine Beach

Beach resident Jane Anderson has had her fill of cigarette butts. In her free time she combs the green spaces

Dawes Road Library header

Meetings THINGS TO DO

Share thoughts on Dawes Road Library rebuilding: March 23

March 9, 2021March 28, 2021 Streeter staff Brad Bradford, Dawes Road, Dawes Road Library

A community consultation is being held virtually March 23 on the planned renovation and expansion of the Dawes Road Library.

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That was then.

*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth 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

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