stjames2queenwest
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My auto correct prefers young blood.
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allengeorge
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I don’t feel like Yonge and Bloor ever had a stabby vibe - at least not since the mid/late 90s. Am I too young to know otherwise?
Blovertis
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I've been hanging around Bloor and Yonge since the early eighties. It seemed as safe as any major intersection back then.
evandyk
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Dundas and Sherbourne is definitely the GOAT for feeling unsafe in Toronto. Not that it actually was truly unsafe. I used to go to King Place for takeout all the time.
C-mac
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This is one I've seen and heard of the worst things happening. Several murders in that Sam's store parking lot. There's a video on youtube of a guy interviewing one of the employees after store itself was riddled with bullets while he was working. He's walking through the store showing all the bullet wholes.
stjames2queenwest
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Ya, as someone who lives on sherbourne and works at queen and spadina, I vote Sherbourne and Dundas as well. There are several other candidates I can think of. I think the future Moss Park station will really help though.
wmedia
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If by "stabby vibe" you mean being around the most unfortunate members of society not receiving the mental health care they desperately need, caught in a perpetual cycle of addiction, desperation and violence, then Dundas & Sherbourne is the epicenter. Yonge & Bloor is perfectly fine.
Benito
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Rascacielo
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Only someone who lives above the 407 and ventures downtown once a year would consider Yonge & Bloor dangerous. Anyway, here’s a few shots of The One from the islands today
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BloorMan
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Today, they finished the Yonge St concrete pour on the sidewalk and did a concrete pour on the columns that will hold up the next level 62. Is level 62 where they will pause to see if they can get a buyer for the building? If not, then the crane will have to grow taller.
jer1961
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Photos taken today, Friday (July 5). Yeah I can attest to the crime at Yonge and Bloor. Just two weeks ago while taking photos of this building, someone stole my helmet from my parked bike! Had it on Yonge south of Charles, never in my decades of cycling has someone taken my helmet! But I got the shots... This week, work remains at levels 61/62 at the top, where it was at my last update a week ago. The corner blue forms have moved up a level as they pour the corners of the floors, now around level 54. The black Rail Climbing Systems (RCSs) below continue their rapid rise, installing the tower's skin. Last week, the east and north RCSs were at level 33, the west one at 32. This week, the east and north are both up to level 34, and the west is at 33. The smaller scaffolds on the south side are also rising, now at 31.
Starting with the "time-lapse" Flickr album update, views from the south where we can see more of the installed skin, a view from across the street on Yonge, then the view by Holt Renfrew, from Cumberland east of Bay, then Bloor east of Yonge; from Bloor and Bedford as we now see the skin emerge over the TD building, and a final shot from down Devonshire.
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Starting with the "time-lapse" Flickr album update, views from the south where we can see more of the installed skin, a view from across the street on Yonge, then the view by Holt Renfrew, from Cumberland east of Bay, then Bloor east of Yonge; from Bloor and Bedford as we now see the skin emerge over the TD building, and a final shot from down Devonshire.
The One (1 Bloor West) "time-lapse"
From October, 2020, as above-ground construction started in earnest at The One (1 Bloor W.) in Toronto. More or less a weekly photo usually taken on a Friday, with some gaps during early-on construction hiatuses. The initial photographs are from 2015, during demolition at the site, 2018, during...
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skycandy
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Moody Yonge and Bloor (from high atop Christie just south of St. Clair). Cell pics with Casa Loma on the left.
Johnny Au
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Collingwoodbuildinglover
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I have a feeling we will not see construction stop as for the Crane rising they usually do those on Saturdays do they don't they
reinventingthewheel
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The stabby vibes at Yonge and Bloor are from blistering winter winds to the face. I recall the wind study for The One modelling 0.1% conditions (meaning rare but not unrealistic) where pedestrians could face 80km/h winds on the south east street corner.
Shout out to our dedicated photographers showing up rain or shine, windy or not.
EDIT: I fact checked myself because people get whiny when bad things are said about The One. Apparently the pre-construction conditions show max 79km/h and post-construction conditions show max 78km/h. Hard to believe winds will be reduced considering this building’s envelope. I think there’s a relatively wide margin for error in these very scaled down dimensional analyses. Study found in supporting documentation here.
Shout out to our dedicated photographers showing up rain or shine, windy or not.
EDIT: I fact checked myself because people get whiny when bad things are said about The One. Apparently the pre-construction conditions show max 79km/h and post-construction conditions show max 78km/h. Hard to believe winds will be reduced considering this building’s envelope. I think there’s a relatively wide margin for error in these very scaled down dimensional analyses. Study found in supporting documentation here.
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