By Christopher DeWolf
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When Chinatown was a Jewish neighbourhood
Did you know that today’s Chinatown was once Jewish? From 1890 to 1920, thousands of Yiddish-speaking Jews came to Montreal from Eastern Europe and...
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Cultural space to be built on Saint-Laurent metro
One of the more inexplicable vacant lots in town has been always been the one surrounding Saint-Laurent metro, at the corner of the Main and de...
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Ode to the nighttime metropolis
Kate at Montreal City points the way to a nice essay in today’s Guardian on the pleasures of nighttime wandering. Writer and “confirmed...
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The Habitat 67 experience
Yesterday, I visited someone who lives in Habitat 67. It was the first time I had been inside the landmark apartment complex, built as part of Expo 67 and...
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Photo du jour: PVM
Montreal’s business district is unfortunately quite bland, lacking the canyons and imposing prewar architecture of the financial districts in Boston...
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Heritage Montreal: a manifesto for new development
It has been decades since Montreal has seen this much development activity. In addition to the many condominium, retail and office buildings proposed or...
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Deconstructing the Turcot Interchange
Last year, the provincial government announced that the Turcot Interchange, at the junction of highways 20 and 15, will be completely rebuilt at a cost of...
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Big changes ahead for Mile End’s garment district
The old industrial area in the east part of Mile End, between St. Laurent and Henri Julien is set for a makeover. Yesterday, the city announced that $8.8...
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Photo du jour : Sainte Catherine la belle
La rue Sainte-Catherine vue depuis le pavillon EV de Concordia. Le 15 septembre 2005
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Election sign vandalism
In response to our request for election sign photos (we’ve especially interested in photos taken during campaigns in the 1990s or earlier), Kate...
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No debate on the Notre Dame highway
This story slipped through Spacing Montreal’s normally impenetrable news-fishing net, but I’ve managed to retrieve it. On Sunday, Bruno Bisson...
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Photo du jour: Park Avenue diptych
October 25, 2007