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Dylan Reid based his latest NOW article, No place to meet<\/a>, on the 64 comments made to his recent Spacing wire post<\/a>, in which he asked: “if you had to meet someone in Toronto, but hadn’t arranged a place and could’t contact them in advance, where would you go?” What he discovered was that Toronto lacks a convenient, friendly, and universal meeting place. Though many options were given, it seems that none are suitable for both Torontonians and out of towners, and some spots are just downright aesthetically unpleasing.<\/p>\n

I wanna be NYC<\/a>, by Mike Smith, also appears in this week’s NOW<\/a>. Smith suggests that in comparison to New York City, Toronto is just a baby. From its density, to its community boards, to its dearth of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dead zones\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, New York provides a picture of how much room Toronto has to grow.<\/p>\n

Our last day here, I’m standing in front of the 5 Pointz building (not affiliated with the 5 Points neighbourhood) in Long Island City (not on Long Island), a warehouse-complex-turned- artists’-studio covered in graffiti murals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s nothing short of erotic. I find I’m crying. It’s not just the beauty; it’s not even the proud display, outshining the tenuous hate-the-sin, love-the-sinner relationship Toronto has with street art. It’s the fact that it’s both New York’s blessing and blind eye that means this can exist. It’s like the first time I made love, losing youth and taking final ownership of my body. I see the admission written on every inch: we are citizens, this is our home, this is our second skin, this is where we are, this is what we are. I feel a sense of mourning as well. Love for a city may be a doomed love. Anything that seeks to turn earth into concrete may truly not be long for this world. But this is what we are right now, right here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

New York has never claimed to be anything but a metropolis — huge, filthy, stinking and loud. I think, with sadness and hope, of home, still deciding whether or not it’s going to come out and be, really be, a city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, we really have no choice. But then let us make the choice, and not have it made for us. Let’s own the accident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

photo by Mike Smith, NOW<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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