Moss Park

Your Typical Neighbour

This neighbourhood may be a little rough around the edges, but honestly, it’s a one-of-a-kind living experience. The area is dominated by public housing projects, apartment complexes, and student housing – so you really have a diverse crowd of people here. The main park offers a recreational centre, tennis courts, and mobile safe injection sites tend to pop up here. Your typical neighbour might be a young professional new to the city, a Ryerson or George Brown student, or a big Kim’s Convenience fan – the actual store is in this ‘hood! 

What We Love

Location! Moss Park is close to just about everything. You can walk anywhere downtown and wherever you can’t walk, there is the TTC

What We Don’t Love

Even though gentrification is occurring here, there are still some interesting characters in this hood and the roughness is still visible.

The Real Estate Scoop

Moss Park can be polarizing, but it’s a true urban Toronto mix – even from a real estate perspective. It’s super central – so all the services and conveniences of the downtown core are at your fingertips. It’s also very diverse–ethnically, socioeconomically, and architecturally–so the whole range that is Toronto is on display. If you prefer a more homogenous (some might argue sanitized) version of the city, then this may not be the right place for you. However, for serious urbanites, Moss Park offers everything from rougher multi-unit income properties to some of the edgiest condos and warehouse conversion projects in the city. (Check out Stonecutters Lofts, Boiler Factory Lofts, Glass House Lofts, and Richard Bigley Lofts for great examples.)

Transit

501 Queen Street and 505 Dundas Street streetcar routes operate east-west in the neighbourhood. Bus routes include the 75 Sherbourne along Sherbourne from Rosedale to Queen’s Quay and the 65 Parliament Street bus from Castle Frank subway station south to the Esplanade. Commuters have easy access to the Gardiner via Jarvis and parliament and to the DVP. 

Schools

There are a TON of public, private and Catholic school options around this neighbourhood.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Nelson Mandela Park Public School
École élémentaire Gabrielle-Roy
Church Street Junior Public School
Dundas Junior Public School
Lord Dufferin Junior and Senior Public School
Queen Alexandra Middle School
Market Lane Junior and Senior Public School
Jesse Ketchum Junior and Senior Public School

SENIOR SCHOOLS

Jarvis Collegiate
Collège français secondaire

CATHOLIC & PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Liberty Prep School Corktown Campus
TAIE International
École élémentaire catholique du Sacré-Coeur
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
St. Michael Catholic School