After about 45 years of neglect, an abandoned row of heritage brick houses is on the road to recovery. The Glen Road homes sit a few hundred metres from upscale Rosedale to the north, and the towers of St. James Town to the south.  <PHOTO BELOW – what’s under the tarp>

JOHN BENTLEY MAYS in the Globe and Mail: “(the area) survived the wrecking ball possibly due to the presence of St. Simon the Apostle Church, and remains today a remnant block of buildings from a larger Victorian neighbourhood that once existed.”