He's there on a chilly Tuesday night. This place pops off on warmer weekend nights. It's a different type of scary than Hastings because of the project housing and the Jamaicans/Somalis, they don't play around. Hastings has a more brazen sidewalk drug market, but this area in Toronto has more gang activity
That's nothing now. My buddies and I used to drive around and walk in that area in the 80's early 90's, major sketchville back then. Hooker Harvey's on Jarvis was a hot spot.
Hooker Harvey's was crazy back in the days man lol 🤣 the amount of cars driving in circles looking at the hookers lol 🤣💯💯🤯🏌️ MODNESS in the 90's..💯💯🤯🏌️
I use to work at Rosar Morrison Funeral Home at Sherbourne and Wellesley and they had a book that talked about the history of the area and that it was pretty affluent way back. Lots of photos of how some of the homes use to look. It’s definitely an area with problems but also some beautiful architecture and history.
I know the area very well as I used to work at the now demolished Wellesley Hospital on Wellesley and Jarvis Streets. The areas you walked through looks incredibly tamer than how I remember it. There were a lot more winos and crackheads and hookers walking those hallowed streets of the 70's through the early 2000's. I suppose all the condos developments has gentrified the area somewhat.
Not necessarily. Gun violence is also (and has also been) a BIG problem in the neighbourhoods directly to the north (St. James Town) and east (Moss Park / Regent Park) of this intersection.
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As many others have mentioned, the area is not as bad anymore. I think because many of the condo's popping up in the area. It's actually worse during the day but not like it was 20-30 years ago. I used walk down though that area all the time on my way to the Phoenix night club and I was always on edge, especially after I got out of the club at like 2am. Someone else already mentioned Allan Gardens is still disgusting...lol.
If you search 230 Sherbourne street. There's a channel called "Robert Douche" that post's videos of people doing weird things infront of his house. It's last post was 10 months ago. But it's been posting for 3 years or so. Its a house just a few doors south of Sherbourne and Dundas.
I lived there back a couple of times, once in 2000 at Dundas and Ontario and once in 2006/2007 at Pembroke and Dundas. I can't believe it's just as bad even with all the gentrification.
It's still as bad, you just didn't have an encounter - that spot you walked by Chamsine used to be an Irish pub, I watched a young man gets is brains splattered all over that alleyway behind it with the blue and yellow graffiti, dude just walked in, pulled a gun and shot him dead right there on the patio.
Honestly, Toronto doesn't have really, really awful parts like some U.S. cities do. Yes it has very bad areas. My son is a paramedic in Toronto and sees some awful things but, I grew up in Memphis and have lived in Toronto and let me tell you one thing, in Memphis? You have areas where if you don't belong there you damned well better. not even go at night. You WILL get swarmed, robbed etc. Those neighborhoods routinely have stores held up at night and people shot for a couple of dollars. I didn't have a single friend in Memphis who had never been broken into and some people more than once including my mother. Toronto has bad areas but, thankfully it's not quite on the level of New Orleans, Memphis etc. Fewer guns, less poverty makes the difference. You let more programs get cut and loosen the gun laws and you will find out right quick how bad it can get.
He called an empty street with nothing going on “the craziest intersection in Toronto”😂 So bad, a stranger said have a good night”. Canadians I swear are so silly.
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@@Milk-Crescent Drake lived nowhere near where this video is lmao what would he know? Toronto has many types of people in many different neighborhoods. This video is probably the most chill and safe I've ever seen on these streets.
@@Milk-CrescentDrake don't know shit. Drake lives in the Bridle path but he grew up in another stinkin rich neighborhood called Forest Hills, he doesn't know what a hood is. Never been in one.
Sadly, I have found far more people who neither live in the area nor know anyone who does are the ones who claim to know the most about of the area, further perpetuating the area's reputation as dangerous and/or "sketchy." That said, it does appear that there is a greater number of people suffering from homelessness and/or mental illness congregating but that is in part a result of greater access to social resources, such as food, housing, and medical care, within a smaller area. But, the social issues on display at Sherbourne and Dundas are prevalent throughout every city nationwide. I live in Cabbagetown and walk through the area on an almost daily basis, all times of day and night. Not once have I ever felt unsafe or at all anxious of the area or those in it. But I also greet those I encounter as I would anyone else no matter the location. No one chooses to be an addict. No one wants to be homeless. But, those individuals are relentlessly looked down upon by society which often fuels the shame they already feel further motivating a disregard for themselves and others. I live The Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," which simply means, treat others as you'd like to be treated. As a result of so often walking through the area I have become acquainted with some individuals and learning what led to their ending up where they are highlights how easy it is to end up where they are.
Sick society America & Canada. We don't have any of this where I've lived my life in SE Europe and East Asia. No. 1 people aren't like this and no. 2 society would not tolerate it in public space.
@@ariesa9751lol there were fights in the middle of the intersection 24/7. Stabbings , rapings, mugging, kidnappings , shootings, beatings, passed out people everywhere, security beat up some of the bad ones and tossed them into alleys. Security guards stabbed. The sheer number of people packed into those buildings and the drug fortresses with lookouts , guards , and many packing guns. Naked people walking through the intersection all times of day. I wish I'd filmed it all like i had thought back in '92
@@ariesa9751lol there were fights in the middle of the intersection 24/7. Stabbings , rapings, mugging, kidnappings , shootings, beatings, passed out people everywhere, security beat up some of the bad ones and tossed them into alleys. Security guards stabbed. The sheer number of people packed into those buildings and the drug fortresses with lookouts , guards , and many packing guns. Naked people walking through the intersection all times of day. I wish I'd filmed it all like i had thought back in '92
BTW back then Sherbourne & Dumdas was just the worst of scores of such intersections , and many other strips especially those with "projex" you would not believe it. Hundreds of dangerous streets now all quiet since the pandemic.
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That area is not dangerous. You can walk through there at anytime unharassed. There aren't any dangerous neighbourhoods in Toronto - crime happens but it's random and not specific to any place. In fact, stats show downtown is the safest area; it's the suburbs where most violent crimes occur.
Moss Park can be a dangerous neighbourhood at times. In 2023, the Moss Park saw 7 murders and only 20,000 people live there giving the area a homicide rate of 31.52 per 100,000 people. And this isn't even the worst danger zone in Canada...
Still looks sketchy as hell. Despite the ttc being full of weirdos that put you at risk, I would never walk in those areas especially at night. Screw that. Toronto the good is no more despite what any shitty mayor claims.
There were 7 murders in Moss Park last year and only 20,000 people live there, that's a homicide rate of 31.52 per 100,000 people. And this isn't even the worst area in Canada...
I am astounded to see that's me sitting there at the bench near the corner street of Sherbourne and Queen. A girl by the shelter stairs is hiding and smoking stuff. I were into the process of preparing my next fix there. Hope I were smoking when camera recorded me wearing a white hospital blanket and sitting and chilling. That's october 4th 22' folks. Toronto vibes are always great.
It’s not dangerous. Everyone around there is dipping, crumpled already, hurting, skinny, jonesing. Walk through there big and proud and it’s a walk in the park. Disgusting park.
