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Bound by Islington, the Gardiner Expressway, the Humber River and Bloor. The expanded city neighbourhood of Stonegate-Queensway integrates five traditional neighbourhoods under its banner. Kingsway Park South offers much the same atmosphere as Bloor West Village, though the housing here isn’t as dense as the latter and so the area is not as busy. The residential streets are well established, well treed, and lined with Toronto classics: squat, private pre-war single-family brick homes with large setbacks, offering deep plots of green between themselves and the street.
Royal York South is a prosperous Etobicoke suburb from the 1950s, the era when this region suddenly became attractive to the young and upwardly mobile. It consists mostly of detached houses.
Sunnylea, which occupies the northeast corner of the district, is a low-density neighbourhood consisting of intimate streets lined by mature trees, with detached two-storey houses, three-quarters of them built in the mid-20th century (the balance were constructed in the 1960s). Sunnylea is a sort of also-ran Kingsway, taking much of its cachet from its proximity to the exclusive neighbourhood, with families of established professionals occupying much of the real estate. But one of the district’s striking qualities is the eclectic architecture that crops up here and there, bringing an otherwise fairly routine brick landscape to life.
The Queensway, which occupies the southwest corner of the neighbourhood, is a small district that features one of the many delightful surprises you’ll come upon in the territory around the lower Humber. Here, not far south of the Etobicoke School of the Arts, is what looks like a separate world: a few dozen clapboard frame bungalows—wartime housing built for returning veterans—delicately painted in pale colours, facing the park. Beyond the park, the neighbourhood’s ’60s-era natural-brick bungalows tend to be more conventional. Recently, a number of condominium developments and townhouses have sprouted along the Queensway, increasing the density in the district.
The Bloor subway line provides convenient transit to those at this district’s northern edge, the Gardiner and Queensway convenient commuting for those in the south. Those fortunate enough to have secured real estate on its west side back onto the Reid Manor Park ravine, where the Mimico Creek, crossed by footbridges, ripples gently southward. On the eastern side, some of the residences along Riverwood Parkway back onto the Humber. Shopping is convenient along the district’s stretch of Bloor West, and in the south, part of the area’s charm rest in the bakeries, shops and coffee houses on the
Queensway.
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