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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.

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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.

Dentonia Park anti-racism banner

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: July-August 2020

August 31, 2020March 1, 2021 Streeter staff Alton Avenue, arson, break-in, Carlaw Avenue, CNE, condominiums, cooling centres, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dawes Road, daycare, Dentonia Park, Don Valley Parkway, Donora Park, eviction, farmers' market, fire, home invasion, Michael Garron Hospital, Mountjoy Avenue, murals, murder, museum, noise, Pape Avenue, ParksPlayTO, permit parking, racism, real estate, sexual assault, shooting, subway

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

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Video, drawing released in two violent home invasion cases

August 25, 2020November 9, 2020 Rodger Burnside Dawes Road, Don Mills Road, Halsey Avenue, home invasion, Overlea Boulevard, shooting, Toronto Police, video

Police released surveillance video showing masked and hooded figures wanted in the investigation of a violent home invasion and shooting.

390 Dawes Rd. where shooting by multiple suspects occrrued

Multiple suspects sought after double shooting in East York

July 26, 2020July 27, 2020 Jay Garak Dawes Road, shooting, Toronto Police

Toronto police are looking for “multiple suspects” following an apartment building shooting that sent two men to hospital in life-threatening condition.

Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: March–April 2020

April 30, 2020June 15, 2020 Streeter staff bank robbery, coronavirus, COVID-19, Coxwell Avenue, crime, Danforth Avenue, Danforth Early Learning and Child Care Centre, Danforth Music Hall, Dawes Road, Distantly, essential workplaces, extreme weather, Gamble Avenue, garbage, gunshots, homicide, John Tory, libraries, long-term care, Michael Garron Hospital, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, Pape Avenue, parks, robbery, St. Clair O’Connor Community Care, Stan Wadlow Park, Toronto Bach Festival, Toronto Police, Torstar, Withrow Park, yard waste

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

residential building at 500 Dawes Rd.

Two-alarm fire on 11th floor of Dawes Road apartment building

March 2, 2020March 4, 2020 Vatché Ayvazian Dawes Road, fire, Stephan Powell, Toronto Fire Services

A two-alarm fire broke out in an East York apartment building on Dawes Road in East York on Sunday, according to the fire department.

Woman, 50, sought in Dawes Road arson investigation

October 12, 2018October 17, 2018 Jay Garak arson, Dawes Road, fire, Toronto Police, Victoria Park Avenue

Police have released a photo of a 50-year-old woman wanted in connection with an alleged arson on Dawes Road last month.

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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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