Going up Bathurst, I'd say it looks like:
Forest Hill (St. Clair/Eglinton): Long-established, affluent and generally more liberal Jews. Mansions, neo-Tudor homes, some apartments.
Lawrence/Wilson area: Orthodox Jews. Some apartments, modest postwar bungalows have been largely replaced by large custom-built homes.
Sheppard/Finch/Steeles area: Russian Jews, the elderly. A lot of big apartments.
Thornhill: Orthodox, Russians, Israelis. Few "liberal" Jews. Middle class to quite wealthy. Very new suburbia.
Outside of this core area there's also:
Bayview-York Mills: Wealthy large lot postwar suburbia, mix of ethnicities. Large non-Orthodox Jewish population as well as a growing number of Asian immigrants.
Annex and Yorkville: Affluent urban professionals and "creative class" types. Sizable secular Jewish population.
Last edited by Docere; Oct 3, 2016 at 9:42 PM.
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