North York City Centre
North York City Centre is a central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the administrative district of North York.
North York City Centre is a central business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in the administrative district of North York. It is located along Yonge Street, between just south of Sheppard Avenue northward to Finch Avenue with its focus around Mel Lastman Square, a civic square, and spreads eastwards and westwards a few blocks, generally as far as Doris Avenue and Beecroft Road. The district is a high-density district of condominium and office towers with ground-floor commercial uses along the wide six lanes of Yonge Street.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around North York City Centre
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.
- 01Mel Lastman Square
Mel Lastman Square is a public square at North York Civic Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after then North York mayor Mel Lastman.
200 m · square in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 02York Cemetery, Toronto
York Cemetery is a cemetery located in the North York area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada operated by the Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries.
400 m · cemetery in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Tyndale University
Tyndale University is a Canadian private interdenominational evangelical Christian university in Toronto, Ontario, which offers undergraduate and graduate programs. Tyndale students come from over 40 different Christian denominations.
3.5 km · Evangelical Christian college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Centerpoint Mall
Centerpoint Mall is a shopping mall located in Newtonbrook, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the southwest corner of Steeles Avenue and Yonge Street at the boundary of Toronto. It contains 59,005 square metres of retail space.
3.1 km · shopping centre on Toronto's border with York Region · Wikipedia - 05North York Central Library
North York Central Library is a Toronto Public Library branch located in North York City Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the two libraries in the Toronto public library system considered to be "Research and Reference Libraries", the other being the Toronto Reference Library in the city's downtown core.
100 m · library branch located in North York, Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 06Bayview Village Shopping Centre
Bayview Village Shopping Centre is a shopping mall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 440,000-square-foot shopping mall is located at the northeast corner of Bayview Avenue and Sheppard Avenue in the former city of North York.
2.2 km · shopping mall in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 07St. John's, York Mills
St. John's, York Mills, is a historic Anglican church in the York Mills neighbourhood of the North York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2.5 km · anglican church in York Mills, Toronto · Wikipedia - 08Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club Ground
Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club Ground is a cricket ground in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 1827 the Toronto Cricket Club was established in part by the efforts of George Anthony Barber.
3.3 km · sports ground in Toronto, Canada · Wikipedia - 09Earl Bales Park
Earl Bales Park is a large park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The West Don River runs through it.
2.4 km · park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia - 10Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park
Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park is a Jewish cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at 6033 Bathurst Street in the city's North York district, it is one of the largest Jewish burial grounds in the Greater Toronto Area.
3.2 km · cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, 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.
Getting to North York City Centre
- Airports
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 20 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 78 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 107 km
- Stations
- Finch, 1.4 km · Sheppard–Yonge, 900 m · North York Centre, 0 m · York Mills, 2.8 km · Leslie, 3.8 km
- Hamilton → North York City Centre13906 km · quickest by air, 29h 4m · NZ$3,050–4,720
- Windsor → North York City Centre335 km · quickest by air, 4h 35m · C$140–210
- Ottawa → North York City Centre346 km · quickest by air, 4h 39m · C$150–230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for North York City Centre
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 North York City Centre. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA free ferry service also makes the short crossing: it is just 121 metres, the world's shortest regularly-scheduled ferry route.
- Get inTTC streetcars are available within a short walk from the mainland ferry terminal: Route 509 Harbourfront travels east along the waterfront (Queens Quay) to Union Station.
- Get aroundA visit to Toronto Islands from the ferry docks at the southern end of Bay Street is a great way to spend a bike-friendly, relaxed afternoon by bike.
- Get aroundThe trip to the Toronto Islands from the downtown core (Bay St and Queens Quay) is a pleasant 15-minute ferry ride, with frequent summer service and the best views of the Toronto skyline.
From Wikivoyage: Toronto, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01622 km
- 02848 km
- 032,913 km
- 043,005 km
- 053,137 km
If you know how people move in North York City Centre – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to North York City Centre
North York City Centre is 7 km from Toronto, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Willowdalehuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.4 km
- Hoggs Hollowhuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3.5 km
- York Centrefederal electoral district in Ontario, Canada (Since 1953)2.7 km
- Armour Heightsneighborhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada3.2 km
- Bayview Villagehuman settlement in Toronto, Ontario, Canada2.9 km
- Teddington Parkneighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada4 km