SHOPPING
Bloor-Yorkville is generally acclaimed
as
Canada
's
pre-eminent shopping district. Its many specialty stores, fashion boutiques,
jewellery stores, antique shops, and art galleries are a destination point for tourists,
as well as Torontonians from all over the city.
Yorkville's shops and restaurants are
located in pretty Victorian houses on
Yorkville
Avenue,
Hazelton
Avenue,
Cumberland
Street and
Scollard Street.
The Hazelton Lanes shopping centre located at 55 Avenue Road features over 100
exclusive shops and restaurants.
RECREATION
The Village of Yorkville Park located
at
115 Cumberland Street
has won numerous design awards for its thematic landscape based on elements of
Yorkville history as well as the Canadian landscape. The rock in the centre of
the park is from the
Canadian Shield. It
weighs 650 tonnes, and is 1 billion years old.
Ramsden
Park is located at the north end of Yorkville, off
Yonge Street. This large city park
includes four tennis courts, an artificial ice rink, a children's playground,
and a wading pool.
The Yorkville Public Library, at
22 Yorkville Avenue,
is an intimate library geared towards the local community. It includes programs
for both children and adults. The Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library at
789 Yonge Street is
Canada
's
largest and most extensive reference library.
The George R. Gardiner Museum of
Ceramic Art and the
Royal
Ontario
Museum
are both within walking distance of this neighbourhood. The Manulife
Centre situated at the south-east corner of Bay and Bloor features 12
state-of-the-art movie theatres.
TRANSPORTATION
Yorkville is ideally located within
walking distance of the Bloor/Yonge subway station on the
Yonge-University-Spadina subway line and the Bay station on the Bloor-Danforth
subway line.
There is quick and easy access to the
Don Valley Parkway
just east of Yorkville.
The
Toronto
neighbourhood text profiles, sketches and maps displayed on this website were
published in "Your Guide to Toronto Neighbourhoods", are copyright Maple Tree
Publishing and have been reproduced by the Toronto Real Estate Board under
license. www.torontoneighbourhoods.net
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