![]() On Tuesday, Lee’s son followed the voice out to the back lane, found nothing, then climbed the fire escape and peered down into the dark sliver between the condo and the restaurant. Directly south, separated from the restaurant by a 20-cm gap, is a large, expensive condominium complex. Half a block north lies perhaps the last sliver of Toronto’s ungentrified downtown, a warren of shelters, and a public haven for the homeless. The modest two-storey building looks boarded up and almost abandoned from the front. Today, Tom’s stands between colliding ideas of what Toronto is and will become. Daniel Lee sits in the backyard of his Toronto property, July 12, 2017. Family pictures - the boys playing hockey, Donald and his wife over the years - now line the walls. They left the lunch counter downstairs unchanged. ![]() He couldn’t work the necessary hours anymore.īut the Lees stayed in their apartment. He underwent a bypass - you can still see the pale scar - and closed the restaurant. ![]() They watched the neighbourhood shift and tremble around them for decades. Lee and his wife raised three children in the apartment above Tom’s. ![]()
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