The Infamous Jane & Finch Intersection & Malls | Toronto Walk (Aug 2022)
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2022
- A walk around the intersection of Jane & Finch and through two local shopping malls.
1:25 - North on Jane Street (from Finch)
6:40 - Yorkgate Mall
15:36 - Norfinch Shopping Centre
19:10 - Pigeons!
20:12 - Jane & Finch Mall
28:25 - LRT test vehicle sighting!
Recorded in 4K at 60 FPS on Friday, August 26, 2022
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Would love to see more of these types of walks out of the city centre, and electric rides!
Yeah, very true.
Jane and finch mall looks like dixie outlet mixed with south common mall in Mississauga. But unlike south common and dixie, its got a whole shoppers drug mart and freshco which is so ideal for groceries.
Good morning Johnny and everyone!! Happy Saturday!! Great walk tour around the Jane/Finch intersection. I can’t wait for the Finch West LRT to be completed by 2023. Hope everyone stays safe😎👍.
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Thanks for this video. I grew up in this neighbourhood and it was nostalgic to see these malls I had gone to when I was a kid. Especially the McDonalds, brings special memories.
I used to go to the stores here when I was visiting Toronto. Thanks again for your videos!
Awesome! Thanks for sharing with us Johnny!
Very informative video Johnny Jane and Finch is going through a lot of changes. With the finch LRT coming your now gonna start seeing new developments arriving.
Good morning everyone, and @johnny strides.👋
On my other account. Noticing the malls have a lot of small businesses that aren't really a part of the larger chains. I like seeing small businesses in malls, knowing there's a place for them. I hope the area looks a lot better after the minefield of construction e ds.
Unfortunately I think the costs of renting in malls has a lot to do with small independent businesses not doing well in them.
right. this is why it is so important to shop at these malls. you get good deals too
Good evening! Nice weather for walk 😊
Tony's hairstylist has been there forever.... My dad use to bring me there for haircuts when i was a kid. I am 47yrs old now, good times.....
This area use to be soooo bad but people use to travel here to shop even when they moved to the smaller cities outside of Toronto.
People still drive to jane and finch for church and shopping because the food is fresh and cheap.
That mall is decent
Thanks for another awesome vid Johnny appreciate your efforts 😊
Oh wow that LRT looks great. Looks nice and fresh.
Good job Toronto 👍🏾
Does anyone else remember Funpark by Yorkgate mall? It closed some time ago....maybe 15 years ago. I miss the old neighborhood😢
Thanks for this interesting video!
Thanks for the walk
It _isn't_ a destination mall, just an ordinary mall with non-chain tenants similar to Bridlewood Mall (at the corner of Finch and Warden), Warden Center, which was near Warden Station (Warden & St. Clair) and the soon to be gone Galleria Mall (at the corner of Dufferin and Annette); these are the malls that comedian Chris Rock called 'the ones that white people don't go to' in one of his bits.
Chris is spot on! LOL
@@arricammarques1955 how is he spot on? What type of people go in those malls?
What are the destination malls?
@@AzureKite191, off the top of my head, in order, they are:
1. Yorkdale Mall
2. The Toronto Eaton Center
3. Scarborough Town Center
4. Fairview Mall
5. Square One (Missauauga)
these are the best malls and here all people go there not just a certain race. usa is very different than canada. and we need to support small businesses. so these are the places to go
Omg I didn't know they built a LRT train on jand and finch.
That's amazing great for the boat loads of York university students
💯🙋🏿♀️
21:45 JFMPlus community information kiosk. Very much appreciate showing us this locale
It's an awesome idea to involve the community. Cheers!
Hey Goodnight T.O"s commando Mr. Johnny Strides and everybody......howdy doo mon, yoo hoped your short workweek was rock on kool and still im enjoying the nice typical weather for this time of year! Thiz was a good last summer throwback 2022 vid you did from my former and still #1 community in Toronto
(jane/finch) i enjoyed the discussion regarding the finch west lrt, and the buzz it will received from residents/mom@pop shops and corporations situated along that part of the finch west route of 16 stops and 2 terminal end stations, and i hoped jane/finch mall will still be there even next lifetime cause its the breadbasket and heart of our Caribbean@ african roots in community, also other cultural diasporas. thanks and ciao
I lived in this neighbourhood in the mid 80’s
Some it looks the same, but the JF Mall is a lot less chain-oriented now. And we would never have expected to see a streetcar.
Where the Church's Chicken is was a Pet Valu. I worked there from 2001 - 2008. Great place to work. The people there were always friendly.
Seneca opened in 1990-1991, I can’t believe how crazy finch looks 😱
That would save a lot of people..most of the people work In warehouses 24/7 around the clock so getting back and forth to work would definitely be less stress
Awesome Toronto 💯
ty for this!
Seneca is a great college hands down.Saved alot of people 💯
Everybody went to Seneca haha!
Seneca or George Brown or centennial haha!
You should do a walk by the esplanade where they’re filming season 4 of the boys
good morning everyone
You should do Flemingdon Park located at the major intersection of Don Mills & Eglinton Ave E!
They renovated a lot of those buildings.
They saved immigrants period!
It saved their kids aunty uncle cousins everybody who came to Canada
💯
Those apartments use to be cheap too
Around $700.00 with no first and last month rent.
Haha
Jane and Finch doesn't look that bad anymore, the next generation is definitely better than the previous
Johnny its quite possible since its a low income area then the services provided by the city may be lacking.
I can't speak to the services but the infrastructure isn't great. Thankfully the LRT is coming soon at least.
Smart enough to film during the day🤔
king on stage..
This area is changing for the best I hope.
Beast jhony in the world 😇😁👑
familiar place.
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Yorkgate mall is so depressing looking. And it’s been there for so long
Sorry Drake and other “Canadian rappers” but Jane and Finch is like Beverly Hills compared to the hoods of every US city
I enjoy your walks through the ghetto.
That was huge jack fruit and watermelons.
You mentioned drive through, I really dislike them, only exception is ATM's.
They certainly don't belong in major centres IMO!
The infamous parts of cities can be more exciting than the Jenniferied! Gentrified parts. 🤣
Agreed! Though it’s honestly not a terrible neighborhood these days. Sure it can be a bit below average on a stat sheet, but (from the perspective of someone that’s lived in numerous US cities) it really doesn’t seem like a particularly bad area anymore. Generally feels safe to travel around with plenty of businesses and nice people.
@@PlanetLinuxChannel I mean, it is still one of the worst areas in Canada
@@pokaye It's so funny when people say this and completely ignore Yonge and Dundas. You can literally go into this neighbourhood and not be accosted by junkies and other vagrants like DT. Toronto and DT East side in Vancouver. All I've seen are people going to work. I've actually gone there several times at 5am to go to there gym and all I saw were people up early getting in their workout before work. Not a any junkies banging on my window for money, or breaking things. Only weaklings would think it's the "worst" area in Canada.
@@wholly88 You went there at 5 AM a few times when nobody is awake, try living there for a few years then talk. Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is a dangerous neighbourhood, just like Jane and Finch. However, the former has a homeless problem, and the latter has a gang problem. I'm not sure about Yonge and Dundas since I've never been to Toronto, but isn't that the Times Square of Canada? No way it's dangerous
@@pokaye If you have never been to Toronto why are you even commenting on Jane and Finch? I actually worked and lived in that area for a few years in fact and guess what? It was safe for me to come home and I never worried. DTES and Jane and Finch are in no way the same and you know this. Gang problems usually stay among gang members, the people who are coming and going to work each day, are just doing that, living and trying to raise their families. I can tell you that I saw way less vagrants who were unstable and strung out in Jane and Finch than I do on Yonge Street. If you have no knowledge outside of "what you heard" about this neighbourhood in Toronto stop stigmatizing. It only makes you look foolish.
Jane and finch do not walk that at night.I had a buddy who lived in that area. Took me there I have never been so uncomfortable to this day in my life. Special breed of people live there
It's not as bad as a lot of people paint it. Lol. A lot of it is hearsay and fables
@@babaawawu3156 There's a reason why Jane & Finch has the reputation that it has, it is the very definition of "the ghetto". In 2020, Jane & Finch area had around 60+ shootings and 5 murders & in 2021 the area had 31+ shootings with 8 murders, and that's not citywide, this is A SINGLE neighbourhood, that makes up a small area of Toronto & just to remind you, this is in a country where guns are HEAVILY RESTRICTED.
@@kiddo7711 I see. I know someone who's been living there since 2016 and she tells me it's not as bad as people say. She acknowledged that it used to be really bad though
@@babaawawu3156 Usually when people live in areas like that, after a while they start to say "it's not that bad", but it's not because the area is safe or anything, they're just used to the type of stuff that goes on in that area.
Beer store ,?
JOHNNY GUNNA GET JUMPED LOL...
Why you call Jane and Finch infamous intersection
That's just the reputation the area has...
This was always the new immigrant area
The immigrant mall
Good morning Johnny are u married?
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Jane and finch is not for me. It's good for new comers and uni students.
I'll pass on this area NO thank you
Janes chicken is good though👍🏾 chicken for days
Finch LRT is a glorified streetcar.
Infamous for it's shootings... should really have a vest on when walking around there.
Hoodlum area
Remove infamous
Why? Like it or not, it's reflective of the area's reputation. If you're going to make a request, at least take a minute to explain your rational instead of posting it as a demand.
@@JohnnyStrides Who are you to Judge Jane & Finch? I HAVE LIVED THERE FOR A DECADE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I only have kind words to say about the neighborhood. That is my area it is beautiful, I have never been accosted or mugged and I am out all hours. Enter the stores and see the warm welcoming smiles of people, if you need help people will help you. Friendly neighbors and people
IT IS MY COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are a stranger don't label it "INFAMOUS"
@@groovyangel29 Did you actually watch the video? 🙄 Again, the word infamous is reflective of the reputation of the area...
Total dump
It looks like a 3rd world country, poles with electric wires, you are way behind Canada.