Location

Danforth Village is located on the eastern part of Danforth Avenue in the old city of Toronto. It stretches from the eastern edge of Greektown by Jones Avenue to the boundary of Scarborough at Victoria Park Avenue. The area is covered by two business improvement assocations: Danforth Village and Danforth Mosaic. To the north of the neighbourhood is Old East York. The sourthern border is the railway tracks beyond which is Leslieville and the Upper Beaches.

History

The area first appeared in the 19th century as the "Coleman" postal village centred on the intersection of Danforth and Dawes. The area developed in the 1920s and 1930s as a streetcar suburb along the Danforth streetcar line. Most of the housing to the north ans south of the street date from this period. In 1966 the Bloor-Danforth subway line replaced the streetcar. In the 1960s and 1970s a number of apartment towers were bult in the area, most notably the Crescent Town area just north of Danforth and Victoria Park, and the Main Square complex south of Danforth at Main Street. The neighbourhood is home to large Muslim, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities.

Reprinted from Wikipedia.