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Crescent Town

Crescent Town is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the former borough of East York.

Crescent Town
Crescent Town · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Crescent Town is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in the former borough of East York. It is located near Victoria Park Avenue and Danforth Avenue. It mainly consists of high-rise apartment complexes, built originally to take advantage of the opening of the adjacent Victoria Park subway station, which connects to the central quadrangle via a partially covered walkway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Crescent Town

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Woodbine Beach

    Woodbine Beach is situated along Toronto waterfront's with Lake Ontario and is the largest beach in Toronto. It is located in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, south of Lake Shore Boulevard at the foot of Woodbine Avenue, and is next to Ashbridge's Bay and Kew-Balmy Beach.

    3.9 km · beach in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Birchmount Stadium

    Birchmount Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor sports facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Situated in Birchmount Park, it is located near Kingston Road and Birchmount Road in the former city of Scarborough.

    2.6 km · stadium at Birchmount · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kew Gardens

    Kew Gardens is a large park in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park stretches from Queen Street East to Lake Ontario at Kew Beach.

    3 km · public park in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant

    The R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is both a crucial piece of infrastructure and an architecturally acclaimed historic building named after the longtime commissioner of Toronto's public works Roland Caldwell Harris. The plant's architect was Thomas Canfield Pomphrey with engineers H.G. Acres and William Gore.

    2.8 km · building in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ted Reeve Arena

    The Ted Reeve Community Arena is a multi-purpose arena that is located on 175 Main Street and Gerrard Street East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The building was opened in 1954 and named in commemoration to Canadian athlete Ted Reeve, and underwent repair work in 1997, and 2023.

    1.4 km · multi-purpose arena in Toronto · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St. Aidan

    The Church of St. Aidan is an Anglican church in The Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

    2.7 km · church in Toronto · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dr. William D. Young Memorial

    The Dr. William D. Young Memorial is a drinking fountain and memorial that was erected on the eastern border of Kew Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in August 1920 by residents of the Beaches neighbourhood.

    3 km · memorial drinking fountain in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    History

    History are music venues in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The venues hosts various events such as concerts, live entertainment, galas and community programs and events.

    3.7 km · concert venue located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Scarboro Beach Amusement Park

    Scarboro Beach Park was a lakeside amusement park in the Beaches, Toronto, from 1907 until 1925. The park was originally in East Toronto until its annexation by the City of Toronto in 1908.

    2.9 km · Historic park in Toronto (1907–1925) · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    George Davis House

    The George Davis House, is a house in Toronto, Ontario built in 1919 and designated as a Toronto Heritage Property on September 30, 2004. The house is located at 40 Kingswood Road in the Beaches area of eastern Toronto and part of the Kingswood Road South Heritage Conservation District.

    2.5 km · house in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Crescent Town

Airports
Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 27 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 78 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 95 km
Stations
Donlands, 4 km · Coxwell, 2.7 km · Main Street, 1 km · Victoria Park, 400 m · Danforth GO Station, 1.1 km
  • Hamilton → Crescent Town
    13912 km · quickest by air, 29h 24m · NZ$3,060–4,740
  • Windsor → Crescent Town
    340 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · C$150–230
  • Ottawa → Crescent Town
    343 km · quickest by air, 4h 59m · C$160–250
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Crescent Town

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Crescent Town. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBilly Bishop Toronto City Airport () is on the Toronto Islands, connected to the Harbourfront by ferry and pedestrian tunnel.

From Wikivoyage: Greater Toronto Area, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    609 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    839 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,909 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    3,000 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,125 km

If you know how people move in Crescent Town – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Crescent Town

Crescent Town is 9 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.