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]Yeah, I love how Citifield has acres of surface parking lots right next door. It gives that suburban middle-of-nowhere feel to it. Oh, and how can I forget the third world slum of Willets Poin[/b]t with filthy auto body shops, dirt streets, and buildings without proper plumbing. And yes, I know of the redevelopment plans, so don't bother with a link to them. We are comparing Toronto to filthy Queens today, not 10 years from now.
You've never been to Toronto, and aren't qualified to compare the two. So just go away before you make an even bigger fool or yourself.
STFUP STUPID. So toronto is all peaches and cream- its not stupid. Lets be serious
I'm sorry that this thread had to turn into a p**sing match. I started it in order to spur people to post their views on the similar positive attributes shared by the two areas. Though Queens is a borough of NYC and Toronto a city, both are similar in population. Toronto obviously has more of a Central Business District because it's a city (that includes former cities that were annexed and are now part of Toronto such as North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke).
Toronto and Queens are both among the world's most diverse areas and are both well-served by public transit (by North American standards). They're both wonderful, yet expensive places to live. Both are safe urban areas for their respective countries. Toronto is obviously going to have a more "shiny" appearance because its very young compared to Queens and other parts of NYC. On the flip side, Queens is going to have a much more "historic" appearance simple by virtue of it being older. Both have recently undergone immense demographic changes that led to their immense diversity. I have great appreciate for both Queens and Toronto, and always have a great experience when visiting both areas.
Because Queens doesn't exist in a vacuum, it has no need for tall skyscrapers. That's not pathetic, ot's mearly a dynamic which dosne't exist in Toronto.
You've never even been there you idiot. Dundas Square was a clean, safe, colourful area LONG before the Times Square "renaissance" which started in the mid-90s. That means Times Square was the Dundas Square ripoff. Dundas Square looked like that when Times Square was still a pile of filth, squalor, pickpockets, and porn shops in the 1980s. That proves that Times Square if the ripoff.
Keep talking about a place you've never been to, and removing all doubt in our minds that you are an idiot extraordinaire.
Do you actually have any proof of this? Because the eairliest I'm reading about the creation of the square was in 1998.
Do you actually have any proof of this? Because the eairliest I'm reading about the creation of the square was in 1998.
If you're referring to the plaza, it was created in 1998, but "Dundas Square" refers to the street that runs east of Yonge. That street isn't new, and that intersection was a lively, SAFE, vibrant, and colourful intersection for decades before the Times Square "revitalization" (or should I say bland suburbanization, lol). But hey, if the folks from Ohio think it's "cool", that's what counts, right?
Seriously, anyone impressed by Times Square needs to get out and see the world. It's nothing to write home about. It's a lame tourist trap.
Times Square was also filled with advertisements back in the 1880's:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cd/Longacresquarenyc1880.jpg (broken link)
But I digress. And please stop saying Queens is dirty, it just makes it seam like you've never actually been here.
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