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Originally Posted by softee
A few miles further West along Lawrence avenue brings you to this decidedly urban looking neighbourhood (Weston,in York) with pre-war storefront retail mixed with high-rise residential buildings. The closest thing in look and feel within the U.S. to something like this so far from the city centre would be one of NYC's outer borough hoods in some far flung section of Queen's or the Bronx.
https://goo.gl/maps/pzFicKDajTUkzmGN7 (pan around for the full view)
Suburban Toronto can suddenly become quite urban looking in certain areas. |
There's dozens of places like this in cities such as Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, not to mention the many in Chicago.
That intersection has a large scale of building that's impressive to look at for that intersection alone, but its not like the Bronx or Queens at all, which radiates busy commercial streets outward in every direction, leading up to it and connecting to more. You walk in any direction in that google link you sent and it just ends. It's more like a village.
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