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The Free City of Leslieville

   (2006.07.18)

Free City of Leslieville update: We got inside a building!

   (2006.06.15)

Nope, it moved in two doors down.

Store window shows mannequins in dresses and camisoles and the words Any Direct Flight in script

This shop’s name is Any Direct Flight, viz. any direct flight from West Queen West Queen West to Leslieville. Expect this trend to continue. Also expect it not to alter Leslieville substantially, as scarcely any change to the mixed cityscape possibly could.

   (2006.06.12)
Dark cloud occludes a blue sky over a construction crane and three storeys of steel girders atop a brick building
   (2006.05.21)
Two-storey extension of building has the shape of a locomotive and is finished in bright-yellow Tyvek against a cloudy blue sky
   (2006.05.21)

Toronto Psychogeography Society does a walkabout in my neighbourhood. Or some neighbourhood called ‘lower Riverdale,’ at least

   (2006.05.19)

At the edge of a parking lot at the Gerrard Scare (q.v.) is this unique, mysterious winding footbridge that connects you to the bottom of Pape across the train tracks (that are indeed right next to you as you park your car).

Concrete footbridge seen at twilight has a winding downward ramp on one end

(I consider this a better photo than the last one, justifying the repetition.)

   (2006.05.16)

What West Queen West loses in frocks, Leslieville gains

   (2006.05.09)

Funny how Torontoist can defame me and infringe my copyright, then delete a comment I wrote

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