A friend used to work at a Mr Sub at Yonge and Finch. A few times a year he'd get Americans coming in and asking where the CN Tower was. They confused NYCC with downtown. Compared to most US cities NYCC is quite impressive.
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A friend used to work at a Mr Sub at Yonge and Finch. A few times a year he'd get Americans coming in and asking where the CN Tower was. They confused NYCC with downtown. Compared to most US cities NYCC is quite impressive.
Don't forget about the Scarborgh City Centre skyline, the Yonge Eglinton Skyline and of course 427.
Just for fun I backed the clock up a few years for a comparison. So I have the Yorkville skyline circa 2000, today 2010 and approximately 2015.
(Tip: Just keep clicking the Next button to scroll back and forth through time.)
A friend used to work at a Mr Sub at Yonge and Finch. A few times a year he'd get Americans coming in and asking where the CN Tower was. They confused NYCC with downtown. Compared to most US cities NYCC is quite impressive.
Oh my god... i don't even wanna look at that first shot!!! jeez. a yorkville skyline comprised of 3 towers. epic fail! good thing it looks much bigger today.
haha! Yes. NYCC is a really interesting place. the same goes with Midtown (yonge/egg). both these hubs are hot spots for rapid growth. yet they're so close to the city (and run along the same streets!). And NYCC looks even larger because it extends for a huge strip along yonge. Maybe in 25 years, NYCC might even become apart of downtown! TORONTO MEGA CITY! almost like a Shanghai sorta thing. (traynor should do a panoramic render of NYCC, Yonge/Egg, and downtown... though, it's probably really hard to get an aerial shot like that!)
A while back, GO had an advertisement with a photograph from 1967 showing one of their first trains. In the background, the first tower of the TD Centre was starkly incredible: it rose out of the grey clutter of smaller buildings like the Monolith in that old movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.