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“Toronto is New York run by the Swiss” …when it’s empty. • • • igerstoronto #toronto #ontario #canada #urban_toronto #torontophotography #streetcar #tram #transport #ttc #ttcinsta #kingstreet #pandemic #torontofinancialdistrict (at Financial District, Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/COy30Rrt3Gh/?igshid=g8guyskcsbyi

© Kevin Charles Ward

Downtown 🏙️🚦🚙🚊🏙️ #toronto #ontario #canada . . . #oxyfinecrafts #bigcity #city #downtown #downtowntoronto #february #winter #beautifulcity #kingstreet #yongestreet #streetcar #streetview #cityview #citylife #weekday #officetime #officeday (at Toronto C•A•N•A•D•A) https://www.instagram.com/p/B81i7djB9AV/?igshid=j5i9otenq09p

#MapMondays - 1642 Dutch West India Company map of New Amsterdam (New York City) and 1728 Map of British New York (second image) The Dutch West India Company was chartered by the Netherlands in 1621 to colonize and trade between the West Indies, Americas, and Africa. Competing with Portugal and Spain, the Dutch utilized their ports to trade slaves from Africa, Sugar from Brazil, Salt from the Carribean and Furs from the Netherlands. After raising the needed capital through trade they brought settlers across the Atlantic to establish the colony New Amsterdam, with its capital New Amsterdam. At the foot of Manhattan Island, DWI constructed Fort Amsterdam in 1926 (today the site of One Broadway) along with Fort Orange (1624) in Albany, Fort Nassau (1624) on the Delaware River, and Fort Good Hope in Hartford, which together protected New Netherlands from the British who were fighting wars with Spain and France. By 1664 the DWI Company's resources had declined and Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who changed the city's name to New York after the Duke of York who planned the attack. The British removed the Dutch colony's wall along Wall Street and expanded the city north and into the harbor via landfill. While many of the Dutch street names remain the same today, the British did rename many streets with names like King, Prince and Crown Street. #MapMonday #cargography #newamsterdam #newyorkcity #peterstuyvesant #dwi #dutchwestindiacompany #fortamsterdam #newnetherlands #brooklyn #queensny #queensnyc #wallstreet #princestreet #springstreet #kingstreet #thebronx #statenisland #nyhistory #nychistory #urban #urbanism #nycurbanism (at Wall Street New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6uBTOLHDNb/?igshid=16uynmsaazs0d

Past St. Andrew's Church (3) #toronto #kingstreet #kingstreetwest #standrewchurch #cntower #roythomsonhall #skyline #evening #blue #sky #latergram (at St. Andrew's Church, Toronto) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3IaHqUAFYg/?igshid=d3ok2eeif6mh

King Street

Entering the Wednesday night team trivia competition at the Kickin' Chicken, as I always do.

Just a few short miles southwest of downtown, King Street, sometimes referred to as “Eat Street,” leads away from Sydney University, bisecting one of the city’s most culturally diverse neighborhoods, Newtown, and serving as the spine for Sydney, Australia’s thriving street art scene. And just a few steps to the west of King Street, at King Lane and Dickson Street, Peque has painted what appears to be an autobiographical account of his arrival in the city from his native Mexico. Peque is a member of the VRS crew and a prolific fine artist, muralist, graffiti artist, and designer—his technique refined in the outskirts of Guadalajara he is now adding to the cultural diversity of his adopted home with work he often describes as “cholo style.”  @peque_vrs