It's the one part of the neighbourhood where you can feel the cool breeze off the lake and smell the water. The city's rectangular grid of streets becomes tangled as parallel streets veer into each other. The monotonous flat topology is broken by Queen sloping downward towards the waterfront. Just past Roncesvalles is a giant streetcar garage, with a complex network of criss-crossing tracks and a million wires overhead. And weaving between the main streets are quiet, bendy residential roads with huge, century old homes that make you think 'If I had a million dollars, I'd buy one of these.'
Billboards perched on top of old, not-yet rebuilt or re-finished apartment buildings try to catch the eyes of drivers on the expressway to the south. The old pawn shops, junkstores and mom & pop diners are still here, as the hipsterization hasn't quite made it this far west. Old men sporting brylcream hairstyles of the 1950s hang out on the streetcorners, as if they've been doing so for half a century.
Not the easiest spot to capture in a single drawing. To fully immerse yourself in the scene depicted, you need to imagine the smell of Lake Ontario, which you'd have a fantastic view of if you were standing on top of the apartment rooftop.
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