Toronto's Most Dangerous Zone. Sherbourne and Dundas - Fiend City

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  • At night in certain parts of downtown Toronto. A different world - a dark underbelly exists. Watch me walk through Toronto's most dangerous zone. Sherbourne and Dundas plus surrounding areas.
    Recorded on Oct 4th/2022
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 135

  • @monicapushkin3274
    @monicapushkin3274 9 місяців тому +12

    All the beautiful old houses still on Sherbourne .... obviously all rentals now, but at least they are still there.

    • @doubleeeeeee
      @doubleeeeeee 2 місяці тому +1

      Lots of them have bad infestation problems but they are beautiful and have great design inside

  • @leedubick5185
    @leedubick5185 4 місяці тому +7

    That looks very peaceful and quiet. Going to Vancouver, Hastings & Main Street, it’s absolutely next level

    • @ThatBigCactus
      @ThatBigCactus 3 місяці тому +5

      He's there on a chilly Tuesday night. This place pops off on warmer weekend nights. It's a different type of scary than Hastings because of the project housing and the Jamaicans/Somalis, they don't play around. Hastings has a more brazen sidewalk drug market, but this area in Toronto has more gang activity

  • @booboobearbaby
    @booboobearbaby 10 місяців тому +11

    It is all cleaned up now, nothing really too crazy compared to 15-20 years ago, that time, yes, you didn't want to walk there alone at any given night. Now is all peaceful and quiet.

    • @hotterthenubitch
      @hotterthenubitch 9 місяців тому

      It's definitely not all cleaned up. It's a complete disgusting shit hole still.

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 2 місяці тому +1

      Most of the blocks we saw, yes. But not Sherbourne & Dundas. There are shootings within 200 ft of that intersection regularly. Stabbings and muggings too. On the south sidewalk just steps eastward it's an open-air drug market in the late evening and small hours most nights when the weather isn't unbearable.

  • @dianneswright
    @dianneswright Рік тому +5

    Good morning HAPPY New Year I just found your channel in my feed. I watch all the toronto walkers. You are doing a great job I love the downtown ones lived downtown all my life mostly(from regent ) keep up the good work [johnny strides and Ken the continum] kept me going through covid . Great job have a great day

  • @chryseass.5143
    @chryseass.5143 Рік тому +4

    Interestimg perspective and insights into "Toronto the Good" - Keep it up!

  • @jimsmith7716
    @jimsmith7716 6 місяців тому +14

    That's nothing now. My buddies and I used to drive around and walk in that area in the 80's early 90's, major sketchville back then. Hooker Harvey's on Jarvis was a hot spot.

    • @2painful2watch
      @2painful2watch 3 місяці тому +5

      Yep as young man, I would usually go there to fulfill my wants and my needs. Oh and the burgers there were great too.

    • @LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm
      @LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm 17 днів тому

      Hooker Harvey's was crazy back in the days man lol 🤣 the amount of cars driving in circles looking at the hookers lol 🤣💯💯🤯🏌️ MODNESS in the 90's..💯💯🤯🏌️

  • @theroamingcanuck49
    @theroamingcanuck49 23 дні тому +1

    I recognized where you were instantly, @3:35. Take care because anything can happen.

  • @CoreyZamara
    @CoreyZamara 6 місяців тому +5

    It's still as bad, you just didn't have an encounter - that spot you walked by Chamsine used to be an Irish pub, I watched a young man gets is brains splattered all over that alleyway behind it with the blue and yellow graffiti, dude just walked in, pulled a gun and shot him dead right there on the patio.

  • @solodre-om1oe
    @solodre-om1oe Рік тому +8

    George street still a open drug market... looks like you caught it on a quiet night, cuz these hoods are crazy af fr...

  • @C-mac_in_the_6ix
    @C-mac_in_the_6ix 10 місяців тому +8

    As many others have mentioned, the area is not as bad anymore. I think because many of the condo's popping up in the area. It's actually worse during the day but not like it was 20-30 years ago. I used walk down though that area all the time on my way to the Phoenix night club and I was always edge, especially after I got out of the club at like 2am. Someone else already mentioned Allan Gardens is still disgusting...lol.

  • @Milk-Crescent
    @Milk-Crescent 2 місяці тому +5

    He called an empty street with nothing going on “the craziest intersection in Toronto”😂 So bad, a stranger said have a good night”. Canadians I swear are so silly.

    • @LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm
      @LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm 17 днів тому

      Lol 🤣 no it's a crazy corner, this has to be a winter cold night, summertime it's crazy especially end of the month💯🤯🏌️

    • @Milk-Crescent
      @Milk-Crescent 15 днів тому

      @@LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm bro your city is safe and full of entitled brats. I’ve been there. Nobody’s buying the “big bad t-dot” push, no matter what Drake says.

    • @softis2000
      @softis2000 3 дні тому

      ​@@Milk-Crescent Drake lived nowhere near where this video is lmao what would he know? Toronto has many types of people in many different neighborhoods. This video is probably the most chill and safe I've ever seen on these streets.

  • @ms.carlson3904
    @ms.carlson3904 Рік тому +11

    brave woman standing at that dangerous bus stop - feel for her that she can't afford a cab/taxi.

  • @morningstarneversleeps
    @morningstarneversleeps 6 місяців тому +2

    ill never forget these walks and streets for real. lived right beside Callahagn lane with my ex partner. heard the addicts all night

  • @eyecomeinpeace2707
    @eyecomeinpeace2707 Рік тому +29

    I know the area very well as I used to work at the now demolished Wellesley Hospital on Wellesley and Jarvis Streets. The areas you walked through looks incredibly tamer than how I remember it. There were a lot more winos and crackheads and hookers walking those hallowed streets of the 70's through the early 2000's. I suppose all the condos developments has gentrified the area somewhat.

  • @ms.carlson3904
    @ms.carlson3904 Рік тому +7

    20 years that will all be gone and more condo development will move in as this is a great location.

  • @jasonhann7949
    @jasonhann7949 2 місяці тому +1

    I use to work at Rosar Morrison Funeral Home at Sherbourne and Wellesley and they had a book that talked about the history of the area and that it was pretty affluent way back. Lots of photos of how some of the homes use to look. It’s definitely an area with problems but also some beautiful architecture and history.

  • @wildbill1185
    @wildbill1185 Рік тому +1

    That thumbnail of the video gave me shivers lol

  • @drewkoenen8334
    @drewkoenen8334 Місяць тому

    Hung out in that area in the 70’s to early 80’s , never had a problem. Met many great people.

  • @tr984
    @tr984 9 місяців тому +4

    How do you film without people knowing your filming?

  • @slushland
    @slushland Рік тому +2

    BLESS

  • @MarkoDelvi
    @MarkoDelvi Рік тому +6

    Sick society America & Canada. We don't have any of this where I've lived my life in SE Europe and East Asia. No. 1 people aren't like this and no. 2 society would not tolerate it in public space.

  • @Italocanadese81
    @Italocanadese81 Місяць тому +1

    Should have seen it when I used to hang out there in the late 90’s
    People on their hands and knees everywhere trying to melt pebbles on the floor

  • @butchlane4609
    @butchlane4609 3 місяці тому +1

    Sadly, I have found far more people who neither live in the area nor know anyone who does are the ones who claim to know the most about of the area, further perpetuating the area's reputation as dangerous and/or "sketchy." That said, it does appear that there is a greater number of people suffering from homelessness and/or mental illness congregating but that is in part a result of greater access to social resources, such as food, housing, and medical care, within a smaller area. But, the social issues on display at Sherbourne and Dundas are prevalent throughout every city nationwide.
    I live in Cabbagetown and walk through the area on an almost daily basis, all times of day and night. Not once have I ever felt unsafe or at all anxious of the area or those in it. But I also greet those I encounter as I would anyone else no matter the location.
    No one chooses to be an addict. No one wants to be homeless. But, those individuals are relentlessly looked down upon by society which often fuels the shame they already feel further motivating a disregard for themselves and others.
    I live The Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," which simply means, treat others as you'd like to be treated. As a result of so often walking through the area I have become acquainted with some individuals and learning what led to their ending up where they are highlights how easy it is to end up where they are.

  • @Aces77777
    @Aces77777 Рік тому +47

    20 years ago it was much worst

    • @moshaknocka
      @moshaknocka 11 місяців тому +15

      honestly I feel like the city just does a better job at hiding it’s problems every decade

    • @sharpshooter9730
      @sharpshooter9730 3 місяці тому +3

      Back when the whole regent park was there close by and yeah it was bad

    • @daisybloom5586
      @daisybloom5586 3 місяці тому

      1995-2006

    • @daisybloom5586
      @daisybloom5586 3 місяці тому

      Regent -don mount

    • @Milk-Crescent
      @Milk-Crescent 2 місяці тому

      Yeah sure buddy, real tough streets of Toronto 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @nedhappily
    @nedhappily 9 місяців тому +4

    It's still way better and safer than Vancouver downtown east side.

    • @KardiFan2000
      @KardiFan2000 7 місяців тому +3

      Not necessarily. Gun violence is also (and has also been) a BIG problem in the neighbourhoods directly to the north (St. James Town) and east (Moss Park / Regent Park) of this intersection.

    • @wangchris6005
      @wangchris6005 7 місяців тому +1

      Agree!

  • @PurrsAlot
    @PurrsAlot 4 місяці тому +1

    I lived there back a couple of times, once in 2000 at Dundas and Ontario and once in 2006/2007 at Pembroke and Dundas. I can't believe it's just as bad even with all the gentrification.

  • @dixonpinfold2582
    @dixonpinfold2582 2 місяці тому +2

    Show people what it's like at that intersection at 2 a.m. in summer on the 2nd-last day of the month.

    • @LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm
      @LuckyCabezonFish-mn9nm 17 днів тому +1

      Exactly 💯😂 summer nights end of the month it's a whole nightmare out there💯🤯🏌️

  • @zoolooz2327
    @zoolooz2327 Рік тому +2

    Bro 15th sub here, good vid, and more importantly good luck with your chanel, keep up the good work, peace !

  • @rafaelsilveira971
    @rafaelsilveira971 Рік тому +6

    please more videos about, another one subscribed here. hug from Brazil

  • @randyt3558
    @randyt3558 20 днів тому

    i can't believe those pay phones are still there... 5:39 Those were disgusting back in 2008.

  • @m4r7
    @m4r7 7 місяців тому +1

    Looks less active than i remember. Havent lived in the area for about 10 years. Just looked, Mary's is closed and so is Alfie's. Sad to see.

  • @rca6576
    @rca6576 Місяць тому +1

    Honestly, Toronto doesn't have really, really awful parts like some U.S. cities do. Yes it has very bad areas. My son is a paramedic in Toronto and sees some awful things but, I grew up in Memphis and have lived in Toronto and let me tell you one thing, in Memphis? You have areas where if you don't belong there you damned well better. not even go at night. You WILL get swarmed, robbed etc. Those neighborhoods routinely have stores held up at night and people shot for a couple of dollars. I didn't have a single friend in Memphis who had never been broken into and some people more than once including my mother. Toronto has bad areas but, thankfully it's not quite on the level of New Orleans, Memphis etc. Fewer guns, less poverty makes the difference. You let more programs get cut and loosen the gun laws and you will find out right quick how bad it can get.

  • @wangchris6005
    @wangchris6005 7 місяців тому +3

    Still way safer than downtown Vancouver lol

  • @caminhadasnocanada
    @caminhadasnocanada Рік тому +5

    I shot a video over there yesterday. Did you feel unsafe at all during this walk?

    • @realstreetwalks
      @realstreetwalks  Рік тому +6

      Not really. I just walk through quickly and don't engage too much.

  • @karstenjensen5329
    @karstenjensen5329 Рік тому

    It is fine 😊

  • @melissadicicco9680
    @melissadicicco9680 Рік тому +4

    Yah it was a ton more dangerous 15 years back. This is peaceful compared

  • @xdrstevox7805
    @xdrstevox7805 15 днів тому

    1:20 since the beginning of time, mankind has been forced to compete for survival. This spirit of competition has reached a pinnacle between two best friends that battle against each other. Why? Glory for the winner, *humiliation* for the *loser* . This is *Kenny* versus *Spenny*

  • @trevorgwelch7412
    @trevorgwelch7412 2 місяці тому +3

    50 X cleaner then NYC

  • @babyblunt3722
    @babyblunt3722 Рік тому +1

    walk through on a Saturday night lol

  • @RyanFlyinHigh
    @RyanFlyinHigh Рік тому +6

    It's nothing today compared to how it was 20 years ago. This is tame

    • @ariesa9751
      @ariesa9751 Рік тому +3

      Were there as many random stabbings 20 years ago or is what's happening recently completely new?

    • @blackpillcommando4927
      @blackpillcommando4927 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@ariesa9751lol there were fights in the middle of the intersection 24/7.
      Stabbings , rapings, mugging, kidnappings , shootings, beatings, passed out people everywhere, security beat up some of the bad ones and tossed them into alleys.
      Security guards stabbed.
      The sheer number of people packed into those buildings and the drug fortresses with lookouts , guards , and many packing guns.
      Naked people walking through the intersection all times of day.
      I wish I'd filmed it all like i had thought back in '92

    • @blackpillcommando4927
      @blackpillcommando4927 7 місяців тому

      ​@@ariesa9751lol there were fights in the middle of the intersection 24/7.
      Stabbings , rapings, mugging, kidnappings , shootings, beatings, passed out people everywhere, security beat up some of the bad ones and tossed them into alleys.
      Security guards stabbed.
      The sheer number of people packed into those buildings and the drug fortresses with lookouts , guards , and many packing guns.
      Naked people walking through the intersection all times of day.
      I wish I'd filmed it all like i had thought back in '92

    • @blackpillcommando4927
      @blackpillcommando4927 7 місяців тому +1

      BTW back then Sherbourne & Dumdas was just the worst of scores of such intersections , and many other strips especially those with "projex" you would not believe it.
      Hundreds of dangerous streets now all quiet since the pandemic.

  • @MsKleinlaut
    @MsKleinlaut Рік тому +3

    Its worse during the day. Alan Gardens is disgusting. You can't take your children there, not even walk a dog. Needlepark.

  • @cherifbar
    @cherifbar 3 місяці тому +1

    Nothing compared to Hastings St. In Vancouver!

  • @adore333
    @adore333 3 місяці тому

    In Toronto at the min and it was worse during the day going through it on the ttc. Active drug taking and people rolling about on the ground.

  • @tony997
    @tony997 10 місяців тому +1

    My favourite song is if your scary mother fer to go church

  • @dougypack7059
    @dougypack7059 3 дні тому

    I think k town in Philly makes that block look like Disneyland. Just look up the rapper skrilla. They say it’s worse compared to skid row in LA Cali

  • @Buffalobutthole
    @Buffalobutthole Рік тому +3

    It's always the basketball americans

    • @Torontostreetz2023
      @Torontostreetz2023 6 місяців тому

      Basketball was invented by a white man in Canada

  • @Z33_Baby
    @Z33_Baby Рік тому +2

    maybe 25 years ago in tdot yes! No its not dangerous now, they clean it up .

  • @robertgates1685
    @robertgates1685 6 місяців тому +1

    You walk right past it

  • @Tourlou0409
    @Tourlou0409 Рік тому +8

    You should come video the most dangerous zone in the USA 😆

    • @eyecomeinpeace2707
      @eyecomeinpeace2707 Рік тому +6

      Are you trying to get the vid poster killed lad?

    • @ThatGuy-rdo
      @ThatGuy-rdo 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@eyecomeinpeace2707 this wasn't even the most dangerous lol

  • @xbman1
    @xbman1 8 місяців тому +2

    It’s not the cleanest. Definitely not the dangerous street in Toronto. Sherbourne and Dundas.

  • @wrptkz
    @wrptkz Рік тому +4

    Zombies ? In Toronto ?

  • @ct1216
    @ct1216 Рік тому +4

    I am from Russia you guys do not have any idea what dangerous is.

    • @jesse73429
      @jesse73429 11 місяців тому +3

      What would you consider a dangerous neighborhood in russia?

    • @sid7088
      @sid7088 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@jesse73429wherever the government wants you dead. 😂😂

  • @bisssekulovski6502
    @bisssekulovski6502 Рік тому +4

    I used to work there it's terrible area

  • @MunicipalManMusicMedia
    @MunicipalManMusicMedia Місяць тому

    That area is not dangerous. You can walk through there at anytime unharassed. There aren't any dangerous neighbourhoods in Toronto - crime happens but it's random and not specific to any place. In fact, stats show downtown is the safest area; it's the suburbs where most violent crimes occur.

  • @arxie3195
    @arxie3195 Рік тому +1

    my ends

  • @positiveandstrong
    @positiveandstrong Рік тому +8

    You've got a nice strong voice. You ought to be a voice actor, like those narrating audiobooks or something.

  • @tr984
    @tr984 9 місяців тому +1

    I subscribed bro

  • @hanimohamd1450
    @hanimohamd1450 Рік тому

    Toronto

  • @dianneswright
    @dianneswright Рік тому

    Who remembers the name before it was filmores

  • @mauftaeballoon
    @mauftaeballoon 4 місяці тому +1

    Toronto’s most dangerous,... and yet you walk through without any hassles,... in fact someone wishes you a good day.... says it all!! Toronto rules!!

    • @kiddo7711
      @kiddo7711 Місяць тому

      There were 7 murders in Moss Park last year and only 20,000 people live there, that's a homicide rate of 31.52 per 100,000 people. And this isn't even the worst area in Canada...

  • @g1itchwitch
    @g1itchwitch Рік тому +2

    I lived here. It was pretty fucked

  • @fareedmohammad397
    @fareedmohammad397 Рік тому

    Hi bro

  • @SaySthAsItIs
    @SaySthAsItIs 6 місяців тому

    Compared with Vancouver, this street scene not too bad and acceptable.

    • @2painful2watch
      @2painful2watch 3 місяці тому

      This was a freakishly tame night for some reason.

    • @SaySthAsItIs
      @SaySthAsItIs 3 місяці тому

      @@2painful2watch agree.

  • @RobShuttleworth
    @RobShuttleworth Рік тому

    Kinda like saying Disneyworld's most dangerous ride.

  • @monicapushkin3274
    @monicapushkin3274 9 місяців тому

    Queen and Ossington much scarier.

    • @xbman1
      @xbman1 8 місяців тому

      That’s cuz there’s a mental hospital there.

  • @danielf6734
    @danielf6734 9 місяців тому +2

    definitely not the most dangerous area in Toronto… go west end

  • @camaleon18
    @camaleon18 Місяць тому +1

    I wouldn’t call that DANGEROUS… just lots more of lower class people

    • @kiddo7711
      @kiddo7711 Місяць тому

      Moss Park can be a dangerous neighbourhood at times. In 2023, the Moss Park saw 7 murders and only 20,000 people live there giving the area a homicide rate of 31.52 per 100,000 people. And this isn't even the worst danger zone in Canada...

  • @wavyamar
    @wavyamar 11 місяців тому +1

    This is nothing to what it was

  • @nikkim788
    @nikkim788 Рік тому +3

    Still looks sketchy as hell. Despite the ttc being full of weirdos that put you at risk, I would never walk in those areas especially at night. Screw that. Toronto the good is no more despite what any shitty mayor claims.

  • @reedinthestreet
    @reedinthestreet 8 місяців тому +2

    My guy Bear in front of filmores

  • @user-ek2px8cq9c
    @user-ek2px8cq9c 6 місяців тому +1

    I am astounded to see that's me sitting there at the bench near the corner street of Sherbourne and Queen. A girl by the shelter stairs is hiding and smoking stuff. I were into the process of preparing my next fix there. Hope I were smoking when camera recorded me wearing a white hospital blanket and sitting and chilling. That's october 4th 22' folks. Toronto vibes are always great.

    • @Roneekz
      @Roneekz 5 місяців тому +2

      You alright bro?

  • @martindambrosio6248
    @martindambrosio6248 Місяць тому

    T.o subway station s

  • @AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada
    @AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada Місяць тому

    this is where the worse are

  • @loveroflife8852
    @loveroflife8852 9 місяців тому +2

    Well, Mississauga is still nice!!

    • @2painful2watch
      @2painful2watch 3 місяці тому +1

      I would not want to live anywhere else.

  • @robertgates1685
    @robertgates1685 6 місяців тому

    Should of made a right at the old strip club lol

  • @shawnmurphy-sm2wb
    @shawnmurphy-sm2wb Рік тому

    Lot of meth in that area , enough said .

  • @salvatorezulich9069
    @salvatorezulich9069 7 місяців тому

    That's soft

  • @mefisto7583
    @mefisto7583 Рік тому +2

    Sick society. I've never seen this in my birth country, nor in China where I lived for 10 yrs...

    • @ppstorm_
      @ppstorm_ Рік тому

      do you live in canada now?

    • @sid7088
      @sid7088 5 місяців тому +1

      At least it's not communist. 🖕

    • @edwardsiguencia
      @edwardsiguencia 10 днів тому

      @@sid7088 with trudeau yes it is

  • @DrissDaniel-rn1qc
    @DrissDaniel-rn1qc 2 місяці тому

    It’s not dangerous. Everyone around there is dipping, crumpled already, hurting, skinny, jonesing.
    Walk through there big and proud and it’s a walk in the park. Disgusting park.

  • @Hoquedhanielgmail
    @Hoquedhanielgmail Рік тому +2

    Mafia area dawg

  • @admydragon
    @admydragon 8 місяців тому

    Man just spins the camera around and catches a woman smoking crack, like damn let her smoke in peace😂😂😂😂😂