48 Abell St | November 12, 2011
Enough of the front is gone that the smokestack at the back is visible.
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1170ish Queen St W | May 2011
1170ish Queen St W | September 2006
It’s ten o’clock on a Sunday morning. The doormen bouncers outside the marketing centre for the Bohemian Embassy make it feel like a Richmond Street nightclub on a Saturday night.
From their marketing material (and I’m not making this shit up): “Anchoring the west end of Toronto’s hippest strip comes a condominium so stylish and cool, it promises to redefine the way this city’s hipsters live. Join the ambassadors of hip on Queen street west…”
Once construction started the marketing centre was moved to Queen and Dovercourt.
1178 & 1176 Queen St W | February 2011
1086 Queen St W | January 2011
1084 & 1082½ Queen St W | December 2010
Studio Brillantine moved, leaving behind a gallery in its wake.
1082½ Queen St W | March 2007
This store, filled with adorable designed objects, was on this West Queen West strip near Dovercourt since before the turn of the century, before the strip became fashionable.
Studio Brillantine has since had to move West into the heart of Parkdale. A gallery has already opened beside the new location and in the old location.
Queen St W & Abell St | May 2010
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.
1168 & 1166 Queen St W | November 2010
I would gladly trade some of the latest bars on this strip of Queen West for a bakery or a bookstore.
