Montreal Image: Park in Little Italy
January 20, 2010 by Deyanira Bautista
Filed under Montreal Images, Villeray
photo: Deya Bautista
This little park is the same one facing the Condo Church in little Italy, on St Laurent Blvd. According to Google maps it’s called Parc Martel.
It’s located right at the entrance of the lovely neighbourhood of Little Italy. If you’ve never been there, it’s on St Laurent and Ste Zotique, where all the stores (apparel, groceries, etc) as well as restaurant and cafes are located. From this point on, and all the way north until Jean Talon there are many many places to shop, eat or just visit. There is now new developments and businesses opening on the Blvd just south of Ste Zotique. The area is expanding and new construction condos are surfacing in the neighbourhood.
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Boulevard Saint-Laurent is not infrequently compared to New York. Part of the reason is that it has some physical resemblance, in terms of architectural scale and rhythm, to streets like Broadway and districts like Soho. The main reason, however, seems to be its dynamic urbanism. Author Hugh MacLennan, who arrived in Montréal in 1935, noted: "The Main astonished me, and it still does. I had walked the streets of many famous cities in England, Europe and the United States, but this was something new. It was probably the most creative Jewish area in North America, more so even than New York.
That’s a beautiful photo.