Protecting Toronto’s Black culture in Little Jamaica
by TIna Yazdani and Jessica Bruno
Posted Jan 14, 2021 4:49 pm EDT
Last Updated Jan 15, 2021 at 4:56 pm EDT
A decade of transit construction and nearly a year of pandemic have taken their toll on Eglinton West’s Little Jamaica neighbourhood, and community members are saying now is the time to intervene to ensure it survives.
“As a long-time resident here, walking along Eglinton West is shocking,” says Bill Worrell, who has lived in the neighbourhood for 37 years. “The economic devastation: so many closed stores. It’s partly gentrification but it’s also the chaos of the construction.”