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  • I normally do not pay attention to review milestones but this my 500th review so I decided I'd save it to review Toronto's City Hall. I was born in the city of Toronto and to my own knowledge I have never had the pleasure of stepping inside the building itself. This is pretty remarkable considering I've been a courier for 2 different companies for a total of about 5 years and I've never technically lived outside Metropolitan Toronto or what is considered Toronto proper these days since the amalgamation. I mention this point because how can I rate a city hall without ever stepping food inside? Well this review is strictly for the aesthetics of the structure and not for anything else. I can't simply rate what goes on in this place because the business of government is far too dynamic and political to be limited to only 5000 characters. So now that I've burned about 1/5 of my allowed characters explaining myself... here we go. As far as recognizable city halls out there go ours is probably in the top 5 of all in North America and probably top 20 in the world if I had to give some sort of conjectured guess with no basis whatsoever. There probably is no such metric or list but for my personal list it's in the top 3 of ones I know and appreciate. The other 2 are for the cities of Philadelphia and San Francisco who both have beautiful and ornate architecture for their respective municipal governments. Our city hall is very unique. There's no rotunda, clock tower or spire. There's nothing that would say old school like the original Old City Hall structure right across the street on Bay. Ours is a more modern architectural response to a more established, conservative looking government building. This is a very unconventional building to suit a very unconventional city. In order to see the front view of city hall you'd have to be on the Queen street side looking north. From Queen to the actual building itself has a huge plaza otherwise known as Nathan Phillips square. This public area has a stage on the left side as well as a Hero burger take out stand as well as restrooms and a place to rent skates in the winter months. The pool and fountain which takes of the southern portion of the square is frozen in the cold months and becomes an ice rink in which people skate for fun. Now while I can only really review what I visually like about our city hall it also has a decent parking lot and is one of the few wide open space (albeit concrete) in the city. The entrances for parking are southbound on Bay before Queen street on the right side and also on the north side of Queen just east of the end of York Street which are both down ramps to the underground entrance. Huddled along the north side of Queen street at the front of city hall are usually a collection of food vendors which mostly consists of French fry trucks who also have such things as burgers, hot dogs and a variety of sausages. What I've love to see is a more diverse mix of food trucks here. I don't care about licensing or whatever, let's get some different things along this stretch in the future if possible.
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