"The Danny"
- Thread starter SkyRider
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I think we are trying to get away from identifying neigbourhoods with ethnic names.
Little Italy is now College Street West
Koreatown is now West Annex
Greektown is now The Danny
Little Italy is still on all the maps and street signs along College Street. Only you give it another moniker
Same goes for Koreatown. Never heard of West Annex. It's Seaton Village,north of Bloor between Bathhurst and Christie. I have fairly good firsthand knowledge. I live there.
And it has exactly what to do with Toronto? I would expect more people use "The Danny" than refer to Toronto as "Dodge City".
Allow me to kick sand in your face.
Historically, to those of us who live there, it's The Beach. It's always been The Beach. It's not American. It's exceedingly uncommon. It's not a question of grammar. it's The Beach. It will, in fact, always be THE BEACH. It will only be referred to as "The Beaches" by the Great Unwashed who are so unlucky as to not live there. Ask anyone at The Goof. Are we clear?
West Annex --- Seaton Village or 'West Annex' is west of Bathurst Street and includes the Koreatown shopping district at its southern border.
Seaton Village is the older name and still commonly used.
There was a poll and a majority (small I think) prefer "The Beach".
https://sec.theglobeandmail.com/new...-beaches-toronto-poll-reveals/article1097971/
It's kinda funny to watch so many deride Skyrider for merely posting a link from the Toronto Star, as if he were the author LOL.
Toronto consists of 140 neighbourhoods, the names of which have morphed and changed over decades to reflect the changing demographics and/or to enliven it and boost its PR marketability.
Liberty Village
Corso Italia
Upper Beaches
Leslieville
Harbourfront
Playter Estates
Bloor West Village
Distillery District
Entertainment District
Queen Street West
The Junction used to be called "west Toronto" until it amalgamated with the city of Toronto in the early 1900's.
Hell, now there's even an official downtown "Discovery District" encompassing hospital row and research/bio lab facilities.
That's just a sampling of a few recognized neighbourhoods with names that did not exist a decade/or two ago. Some further back, some even more recent.
A lot of rebranding is happening out in Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch as well.
Other than Greektown, "the danforth" has become a hotbed of crime over the last few years so if people want to give it a more endearing friendly name, so be it.
Toronto consists of 140 neighbourhoods, the names of which have morphed and changed over decades to reflect the changing demographics and/or to enliven it and boost its PR marketability.
Liberty Village
Corso Italia
Upper Beaches
Leslieville
Harbourfront
Playter Estates
Bloor West Village
Distillery District
Entertainment District
Queen Street West
The Junction used to be called "west Toronto" until it amalgamated with the city of Toronto in the early 1900's.
Hell, now there's even an official downtown "Discovery District" encompassing hospital row and research/bio lab facilities.
That's just a sampling of a few recognized neighbourhoods with names that did not exist a decade/or two ago. Some further back, some even more recent.
A lot of rebranding is happening out in Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch as well.
Other than Greektown, "the danforth" has become a hotbed of crime over the last few years so if people want to give it a more endearing friendly name, so be it.
Annex is not a street name. Toronto streets use east or west in relation to Yonge Street. All of College is west of Yonge.
Your link for Koreatown says it is situated in Seaton Village. As I said,I live there and have never heard it referred to as "West Annex". Every map I've seen shows Seaton Village as well. Pretty nice neighbourhood but it's not the Annex.
I've heard they're trying to brand the east end of Danforth Ave as the "Danny", but not Greektown.
As for the Beaches, the history goes either way. I grew up calling it the Beaches and so did many others.
The Beaches library is over 100 years old.
As for the Beaches, the history goes either way. I grew up calling it the Beaches and so did many others.
The Beaches library is over 100 years old.
Actually it was hard-headed profit-minded business people in the BIA who thought out what the area needed to thrive and decided "The Danny" was just the thing. City Hall just said, "Your 'hood, your call", and went along.
Now my friends who live there have to fight an uphill battle to undo the stupid business.
I think "The Danny" may be just trying to put a younger tag on the neighbourhood. I always will relate the Danforth to being called Greektown though. But the further east you go now the Greek influence of the neighbourhood diminishes and an African culture of businesses seems to have taken root in the neighbourhood.
There are a couple of nice Ethiopian restaurants.
https://www.yelp.ca/search?cflt=ethiopian&find_loc=The+Danforth,+Toronto,+ON
I am not referring to the street but to that area with the bars and restaurants and patios and that ice cream place where the Italian mobster was shot and killed.
LOL
So why then did the city pay to put this up a couple of years ago?
In fact, they put up 2 of them.
Or how bout this:
Why doesn't it say, "College West"?
I like "the Beaches". It's unusual. That's what I first hear 30 years ago and I'm sticking to it. Besides, the old legion on Kingston Road (I think it was there) had "Beaches Branch" engraved in the stone above the door.
And the jazz festival is called "Beaches Jazz Festival"
