NOW Magazine: Ossington’s high noon

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Posted by dEsidEL on Jul-01-2009 16:09:

NOW Magazine: Ossington’s high noon

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Ossington’s high noon
Deputy Pantalone’s bar ban may be too late to save hip strip

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=169776

Posted by Endgame on Jul-01-2009 16:33:

Interesting - Good read.

Admittedly, I don't know much about the area, but I don't see how the improvement of an area is a bad thing...

Would you rather have a bit of noise at 2am, or prostitutes and crack dealers on the corner?

Posted by Silky Johnson on Jul-01-2009 16:39:

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Originally posted by Endgame
Would you rather have a bit of noise at 2am, or prostitutes and crack dealers on the corner?

Prostitutes and crack dealers. I wanna know where I can get a beej and some rock without having to search half the city.

Posted by musicsnob_NOT on Jul-01-2009 17:18:

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Originally posted by jennypie
Prostitutes and crack dealers. I wanna know where I can get a beej and some rock without having to search half the city.

Anywhere along Shuter between Jarvis and Parliment...pretty cheap too. Sometimes you're lucky and the girl has no teeth yet so its a perfect gummer

Posted by LKD on Jul-01-2009 17:19:

as a nearby resident, having an array of bars to hit up randomly is a good thing rather than the usual college st options

Posted by musicsnob_NOT on Jul-01-2009 17:26:

Ossington is one of those cool up and coming streets in the city. Toronto once again prefers to just complain about shit(crime, drugs, prostitution) and as soon as something starts to be done about it (gentrification) it quickly turns to the "not in my back yard" argument. If you don't want noise and some energy in your neighbourhood get the fuck out of the city.

Before anyone thinks that I am simply saying that and if it was in my neighbourhood and I would be singing a different tune. I just bought a place on the intersection of drug dealers, homeless shelters and gentrification. Here's hoping gentrification wins out for investment purposes but if not it will always be exciting when friends visit.

Posted by kaniz on Jul-02-2009 19:40:

There needs to be a balance between day time / night time and the residents. Having nothing but bars / clubs along the strip leads to it being pretty barren during the day - and also making it difficult to sustain a day-time/retail business on that strip.

If your store is the only store to go to on that block - how busy is it really going to be?

Once the daytime businesses close up shop - if there is zero night life in the area, and depending on where it is in the city - things can start to get sketchy.

I haven't been down to that strip at night in a long time to know what it's like these days - but an explosion of bars / clubs in condensed areas seems to have caused problems with residents (Queen, Little Italy), and possibly a 1yr hold on new places might be in order while things cool down and they get a better sense of the impact it will have on the community.

Posted by activate on Jul-02-2009 23:11:

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Originally posted by musicsnob_NOT
Anywhere along Shuter between Jarvis and Parliment...pretty cheap too. Sometimes you're lucky and the girl has no teeth yet so its a perfect gummer

sherborne between queen and gerrard is more of hot spot for the cheap ones.

high end street walkers are on jarvis and church between gerrard and carlton.

Posted by revival on Jul-02-2009 23:24:

I grew up in that area, it was never really that bad?
I will have to scope it out next time im home, which will hopefully be soon

17th for jays and sox, ma get the sugo ready