Posts Tagged ‘Eglinton Ave West’

Eglinton LRT to Keelesdale

Posted: September 24, 2026 in locations, stores, transportation
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The western terminus of the Eglinton LRT is Mount Dennis station (at Weston Road).

below: On the concourse level of Mount Dennis station is “Up to This Moment” which is an art installation created by artists Hadley + Maxwell.  It is made of words.

view through glass of Up to This Moment which is an art installation created by artists Hadley and Maxwell.  It is made of words.

below:  Phrases like “In one continuous poem”, “When Earth began”, and “In smooth and measured strains” appear here …. Apparently Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses” was the inspiration/source for this installation and it functions “a meditation on creation, destruction, and community renewal”.  “Metamorphoses” was written in Latin about 2000 years ago and it chronicles the myths/history of the known world at that time.   It is long – there are over 250 myths in 15 books (and almost 12,000 lines of poetry).

Up to This Moment which is an art installation created by artists Hadley and Maxwell.  It is made of words such as In one continuous poem

people getting off train at Mount Dennis LRT station

below: Waiting for the driver at the end of the line.

looking out of the window at the front of an LRT station as it is parked at Mount Dennis station

below: The first part of the LRT is above ground.  Shortly after Mount Dennis, tracks diverges and one set leads to the TTC Maintenance and Service Facility for the Eglinton LRT.    After this split, the main line goes underground.

below: Up the escalator at the first station east of Mount Dennis –  Keelesdale at Eglinton and Keele.

below: The station entrance on the northeast corner of Keele and Eglinton follows the same architectural style (if you can call it style) as the other stations along that line.  York Memorial Collegiate is in the background.

below: Large sections of York Memorial Collegiate suffered extensive damage in a fire back in May 2019.  Reconstruction is underway but the school has not reopened yet.  Maybe in the spring?

reconstruction of York Memorial Collegiate, with red and yellow hoardings around the school

below: They don’t make them like that anymore – York Memorial was built in 1929 in memory of those who died in WW1.  A number of additions have been added over the years.

front of York Memorial Collegiate, built 1929, brick and sandstone

 

black marker drawings on red and yellow striped hoardings

below: “Sharing Stories of Migration” is a mural at Keele and Eglinton by Moises Frank.  It shows a West African drummer and educator  Saikou Saho, with a student.  A Canada goose flies behind them.  Those geese are everywhere!

below: It looks like a collage of faded and weathered bits and pieces left over from other projects.

weathered and faded street art on eglinton west

below: Eglinton, looking east to Keele and beyond.

Eglinton Avenue, looking east from Keele

below: Vybes be vibe-ing; Vybes be positive

glass door on store has circular green sign with picture of a tree and words saying natural vybes

below: Bright! …  red and white tiles

black mailbox on wall with red and white tiles in checkerboard pattern

below: Eglinton West gateway marker

eglinton west sign, large vertical post with a blue globe

below: Northside of Eglinton, looking west towards Keele.

in front of a coin laundry, northside of Eglinton Ave., looking west towards Keele, people sitting on a bench outside nails and spa shop, other people walking on sidewalk

below: Stores and businesses on Eglinton West including the Sun-Light Bakery with it’s Jamaican flag sign,  Emeye’s Injera and Mini Mart where you can buy spices and teff flour, and Caribbean Cuisine that announces that it’s jerk chicken is authentic Jamaican.

below: Tinnel’s Jamaican beef patties, Unique Fashion,  … and shopping is easy at Easy Shoping Discount,

two brick two storey commercial buildings on Eglinton west, one with a large billboard on the roof, Easy Shoping Discount and Variety, and Unique

below: Psychic Sada Guru, Indian spiritual healer and astrologer who is “young, dynamic trusted”.

below: “Se habla Espanol”

below:  The Moorish Science Temple of America has a presence on Eglinton West.  This religion believes  (among other things) that African Americans are descended from the “Moroccan Empire”.

signon outside of building, over door, that says Moorish Science Temple of America

below: More stores. Rose Discount & Variety (Have a KitKat!) and Elegant Spa & Studio.

below:   … and restaurants … Madras Curry, an Indian restaurant, as well as JJ’s Fried Chircken, a Korean restaurant

below: Jamaican touches in the window

merchandise in a store window

below: Two flags at the door, Granada and Jamaica

store on Eglinton West with Jamaican flag in the window

buildings on Eglinton West, one is an older small house, and one is a squareish commercial building, both two storeys

below: This lonely and forlorn looking building sits on the southwest corner of Eglinton and Keele.  The City of Toronto purchased this lot back in 2015 for $2.625 million.   Eleven years ago they bought it for the 12 parking spaces that it contains, plus potential for future development (source:  pdf from city online files).   It’s a dismal looking corner.

one small and empty building sits on the southeast corner of Keele and Eglinton West

below: Nothing is safe….. This isn’t on the old TD Canada Trust building in the above photo. It is across Keele Street from it.

blue and white redevelopment notice sign on the side of a red brick building

below:Lord Help Us beside a Kiss

store window with a large plant, also two hand written signs, one says lord help us and the other says kiss

below: Christmas greetings all year long.

sign on store window that says Merry Christmas from the Lord

below:Does anyone burn CDs anymore?

signs in store window advertising CD burning service, also fax machines,

inside a restaurant, view of kitchen area

below: Jesus House

sign in store window that says Jesus House

below:Lester Avenue, north of Eglinton, looking west.

Lester Avenue, houses, street scene

small older houses in front, larger apartment buildings behind them

below: A very small house!

below: This garage keeps an eye on the street, 24/7.

house with white garage, two small windows on garage that have been painted to look like eyes

alley behind Eglinton West, looking downhill, looking west

small window on a brown shingle covered shed, in an alley, back of stores on other side of the lane in the background

old gate, patched with pieces of plywood

bright red wood fence with top of mosque just showing over the fence

below:Masjid El-Noor

mosque

street art on a garage in an alley

below: Linda DeLellis (1964-1996) was a local resident who was an innocent victim of a drug-related shooting; she was standing in her driveway when it happened.

city street sign that says Linda De Lellis Lane

woman talking on her phone as she walks outside

below: Back into the LRT station and it is a LONG WAY DOWN!

steep and long stairwell down at Keelesdale LRT station

two women talking on LRT platform at the bottom of an escalator

two people on an LRT train, one is a young man standing by the door, the other is a TTC employee in uniform, sitting

people on an LRT train, TTC, 4 people standing and one woman seated

people waiting on underground LRT platform, waiting for a train

below: The austere, barren and boring (but maybe less expensive??) LRT station

concourse level, inside, LRT station on Eglinton line

Eglinton sign on walls of subway station where rust from pipes has stained the concrete wall

Marlee Ave

Posted: July 12, 2023 in construction, doors, locations, stores, windows and walls
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two toronto street signs on pole covered in ivy and other vines, Marlee Ave and Belgravia

Marlee Ave runs parallel to the Allen Road, one block west.  It is like a lot of streets in Toronto – it’s a place where people live, shop, and/or work but it’s not a place where you’d visit otherwise.  As it turns out, it is also a street in the midst of many changes…  and that too is true of so many streets in the city.

southeast corner of Marlee and Viewpoint, Toronto, strip mall, highrise in background

It’s north end is at Lawrence Avenue where there is a large shopping center.

looking north at Marlee and Lawrence to shopping center

below: Marlee is a mix of residences and commercial buildings such as this small plaza.

intersection of Marlee and with a plaza of stores,

stores on the lower level of three storey concrete building, offices above, parking lot below

metal sidewalk box painted with birds, a blue jay and a cardinal

line of two storey brick store fronts on Marlee Ave

below: DGA Filipino Variety store – Imported Beauty Products, Homemade Kakanin, Special Halo-Halo & Gulaman Sago, Money Remittances, and much much more!

front window of Filipino variety store

below: Odessa Russian (Ukranian) Market

window of a Ukranian grocery store

below: Seen in a convenience store window

signs in the window of a convenience store, photocopy, drumstick ice cream advert, winning tickets for lottery sold here,

below: As you can see, the barber shop is now open

sign saying that the barber shop is now open, black sign, beside sidewalk

below: Laundry on the balcony of one of the many sixplexes (six apartments in the building) on Marlee.

laundry on the balcony of a small apartment building

small brick bungalow with a blue and white development notice in the front yard

a few houses on a side street with taller apartment buildings behind

in a vacant lot with a blue metal fence around it, blue and white development notice sign on the ground, daisies growing up beside it

below: Someone has a sense of humour – Gate XXX.  It must be restricted.

at an entrance gate to construction site, beside a covered sidewalk, hand written sign says gate xxx

looking into a construction site, cranes lifting heavy object

low rise apartment building, brick,

rooflines houses, lowrises, and taller condo building

the back of a TTC bus on Marlee Ave by Ridelle Ave stop, a woman crosses the road, two storey brick houses

looking down a driveway between two small apartment buildings to the back of another residential building

a woman pushes a stroller past a small house on Marlee Ave

below: Mural painted for Kirsch Cosmetics by Jasnine

mural on the side of a white building, a grey tone portrait of a young woman in profile, long dark hair, with pink and purple blobs and floral shapes

hand written signs and posters on a utility pole, two of them are pray the rosary to end abortion, jesus is god

below: Another house waiting to be demolished (demolition notice on the fence).

side split house from the 1960s or 1970s, now empty with a sign on the front hedge that says that it is about to be demolished

below: One developer has painted all the houses that are empty and boarded up – they are all black

empty brick house, boarded up and painted black, all black

a balcony with a bike on it, also a garland of Canadian flags strung across the railing

below: Glencairn subway station on the University Line, midway between Lawrence and Eglinton.  This section of the subway runs above ground down the center of Allen Road.

looking south along the Allen Expressway with the subway running down the middle, at Glencairn station TTC

A few blocks south of Glencairn, the Kay Gardiner Belt Line crosses Marlee

below: A community garden on the Belt Line

a chainlink fence in front of a vegetable garden, spring, everything is beginning to grow
back of apartment building with concrete balconies, as seen from the Belt Line trail

Marlee ends at Eglinton Avenue

northeast corner of Eglinton and Marlee, empty building for lease on the corner, small apartment building in the background
This section of Eglinton Avenue West suffered through years of construction mess – lane reductions and sidewalk closures – while the Eglinton Crosstown LRT was being built. The whole process started in 2011. It’s still not running and no one really knows when (if??) it will become operational. The different groups involved in this fiasco are arguing amongst each other and the lawsuits have begun. Until recently, there was a website where you could get updates on the Crosstown, thecrosstown.ca, but it has disappeared.

stores on Eglinton Ave West in Toronto, Spences Bakery, seafood, pastry,

double window shot, some reflections in the window, some seeing through the glass., empty storefront at Eglinton and Marlee

Express Car Wash, red building, on Eglinton West

looking inside the window of a plant store, a white table with plants on it

door to small apartment building, 5 steps up to door, potted plants on the steps

pink roses growing by a chainlink fence

bell telephone box on Eglinton Ave west

below: Someone loves Andrea!  … and on the lovely note I will end this post.  Love to all!!

TTC bus stop pole, with graffiti, I love U Andrea