There’s a new Tumblr blog documenting Changes in West Queen West, part of the area covered here.
The area between Parkdale and Trinity Bellwoods Park was once a bleak wasteland of greasy spoons, dive bars, used appliance shops and inconvenience stores. That’s why I chose to live here.
The rebirths of the Gladstone and Drake Hotels signalled all that was going to change. The photos above show Queen West from Gladstone to Beaconsfield in 2003 and then in 2006. (I have a Flickr set documenting the Queen West Triangle.)
West Queen West — according to the local BIA — is the area from Bathurst to Gladstone. Bathurst is the current dividing line between the Queen West that has been settled by big brands and the part that’s still more uniquely Toronto. West Queen West is the new Queen West.
Changes in West Queen West has only a few posts so far, but each post is a whole story, with interviews from the neighbourhood. Check it out.
