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Riverdale-East York Daily Updates: November–December 2020

December 31, 2020March 1, 2021 Streeter staff attempted murder, BigArtTO, bike lanes, books, Broadway Station, CampTO, COVID-19, Dundas Street, East York Chronicle, electric vehicles, Empringham Hotel, explosion, fire, Food Basics, nooses, Pape Station, power outage, robberies, stabbing, testing, Thorncliffe Park Public School, tobogganing, Toronto District School Board, washrooms

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

Woman wanted in explosion

Woman wanted in explosion of Woodbine house seriously injuring two children

December 5, 2020December 11, 2020 Rodger Burnside arson, explosion, fire, Queensdale Avenue, suspect, Toronto Police, Woodbine Avenue

Police are looking for a woman believed to be involved in the explosion and fire on Woodbine Avenue that sent two children to hospital.

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Arson, disregard for life, charged after Woodbine explosion

November 29, 2020November 29, 2020 Rodger Burnside arson, explosion, fire, Queensdale Avenue, Toronto Fire Services, Toronto Police, Woodbine Avenue

A man has been arrested for arson and disregard for human life after an explosion and fire in a house on Woodbine Avenue.

THAT WAS THEN. This is now.

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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.

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

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan

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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan

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

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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When building transit was simpler at Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton

May 9, 2019November 24, 2020 Eric McMillan

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The days of hay wagons and streetcars on Yonge Street

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Eric McMillan

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The viaduct that brought Moore Park into Toronto

December 1, 2018December 15, 2018 Streeter staff

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