New York mag posts travel guide to the “Urbanist’s Toronto”

New York mag posts travel guide to the “Urbanist’s Toronto”

Once again, New York has recruited Save the Deli author David Sax to convince New Yorkers that, contra Jack Donaghy, there’s “no shortage of, well, stuff in Canada’s most diverse, dynamic city.” Alongside a Bixi tour by Yvonne Bambrick, which proceeds along Jarvis Street’s “hard-fought bike lane” (get it while it lasts, New Yorkers), the piece confers upon Toronto the dubious distinction of “The Best Away-Game Sports City in the Americas,” courtesy of Sports and the City blogger Navin Vaswani. There’s also a quick ’n’ dirty guide to the buzziest new restaurants (with less buzzy and busy alternatives) by our chief critic Chris Nuttall-Smith, and our favourite bit, a refreshingly catty thumbs-up, thumbs-down tour of new buildings titled “Love the Gehry, Hate the Libeskind” by George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg of interior design super-firm Yabu Pushelberg (the new ROM addition? “It’s a bit of bullshit. One of these napkin-drawing things.” The Absolute Condos in Mississauga? “They’ve got some balls.” The TIFF Bell Lightbox? “A big bunch of nothing”). Read the whole guide [New York] »