Suitable to this summer of the Ghostbusters re-make, Nicholas Weninger and Lily Smith have posted a link in Leaside Chit Chat to Patrick Cummins Flickr photos of the Bayview Ghost apartment shell. It stood for more than 20 years on the peak of the Don Valley where the Governor’s Bridge neighborhood is now located. It’s history is recounted in this Wikipedia posting. Most notably, the misbegotten project known as the Hampton Park Apartments was built when East York issued a permit but then revoked it in the face of ratepayer opposition insisting that the area had been promised as a park. But construction could not be stopped and the builder was only thwarted when EY refused to extend water and sewer service to the building. It sat there falling apart for more than 20 years. Mr. Cummins visited the site twice shortly before its demolition in 1981.
