Ken's Halifax Hood

[keninhalifax]

Hello all,

I recently moved to Halifax for graduate school. I very much enjoy this city and I'm having a great time getting established in my neighbourhood. I decided that it would be appropriate for my first photothread from Halifax to feature some of the sights of my area, a neighbourhood with fuzzy boundaries that, for the purposes of this thread, I will call "South of Downtown".

Halifax, you see, does not have neighbourhoods that are as easily distinguishable from one another as in other cities. The South End tends to creep into the Spring Garden area, which in turn creeps into Downtown. The North End and the so-called "Hydrostone" district don't have easily-defined boundaries, either. I live on Barrington Street -- Halifax's main downtown north-south thoroughfare and once the hub of the city's commercial activity. However, I live south of the area that people would conceive of as "Downtown Halifax". I'm about two blocks from the Harbour but I don't conceive of my neighbourhood as being 'harbourfront' per se.

Regardless of the definition of my neighbourhood, here are a few shots from the areas within a five to ten minute walk from my apartment. Hope you enjoy!

Morris Street


The Maritime Centre seems to loom over everything around here


New building


See?


Keith's Brewery/Farmer's Market


Bench


Humour


Harbour view


Church Street


Local watering hole - great Celtic music on Saturdays


Cafe


Autumn


Bread at the market


Freemasons Hall


Harbourwalk


Typical street scene


It's a dog city


An inn down the street


The local artists' meeting place


Ye olde courthouse


Schmidtville


Sexton Memorial Gymnasium


Hollis Street - to the Market!


Part of Barrington Street's former commercial glory


Back entrance


Vespa!


I really like this stringed instrument shop


At Bishop's Landing


Bearly's, where you'll often meet the same regulars standing around outside with beer in hand


Apartments on Morris


DalTech


A delightful statue of Robert Burns


Backyard


One of many surface parking lots


Another building that tends to creep in to many perspectives is the not-so-elegant Fenwick Tower


Cafeteria-style food


Morris and Hollis (good coffeehouse)


Apparently one of the better greasy spoons in the city


A stall at the market devoted entirely to gouda


An autumnal skyscape (plus Fenwick)


Winston


The Lieutenant-Governor's residence


There are many new South Asian restaurants in my neighbourhood


Traditional Halifax Houses


Another traditional Halifax House; this one hasn't been kept in such great shape. At least one of the walls is brick.


Another (wealthier person's) backyard


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Thanks, everyone, for checking out my photos. Next up: St. John's, NL, and London, UK.

[harls]

You are settling in fine, I see. I love the rowhouses...



Look forward to your future threads!

[softee]

Looks great Ken!

[MobyLL]

Nice! Interesting city... but yeah, you're right, that fenwick tower is a little less than elegant. Nice, cozy looking city overall though.

[hfx_chris]

Great shots. Thanks so much for posting! The south end really is a great place to get some excellent shots and show off the slower side of Halifax.

[skyscraper_1]

Originally Posted by harls

I noticed tonight that this area was repaved. Yes! things change that fast in Halifax!!!

[HomeInMyShoes]

Looks like a fun neighbourhood with a lot of promise.

[ColDayMan]

Awesome.

[flar]

Nice looking hood

[Ex-Ithacan]

Great looking urban hood there Ken. I knew you'd find a comfortable niche when you moved there. I was wondering what the guy on the bench did that Winston is looking so pi$$ed off?

Thanks for the tour, and look forward to more.

[tdawg]

very cute city, indeed.

[skylife]

I'd happily live there! It's like a sibling of Portland, Maine.

[Wheelingman04]

Interesting.

[Kilgore Trout]

nice to see you've gotten comfortable. i'm surprised to see that one house as a brick fire wall. i always thought most houses in quebec were made entirely of wood.

[xzmattzx]

Halifax looks really nice. I like the wooden rowhouses and buildings; it gives that seafaring feel to the place.

[Chelsea Spy]

cute little city - especially like the wooden pastel houses.

[kool maudit]

i basically spent my adolescence in this area. cheese"burgs" at the south end and 607s at kinh-do.

there used to be an arcade featuring obscenely-themed "adult" games just off barrington. graphics weren't what they are now.

[WZ1]

Hope you enjoy your new diggs

[DC83]

Mmmm Keiths...

Hali's lookin' good!!

[someone123]

Nice photos. This area has changed a lot in the past five years or so.

The blue/grey houses and apartment building on Hollis are increasingly looking out of place. The building on the right side of the "coffeehouse" rowhouse photo is a wooden apartment that used to be (maybe still is?) a brothel. I would imagine that it is similar to many buildings that existed in parts of the city that were cleared as slums. I would also guess that its days are numbered.

Here's an aerial photo of the neighbourhood from 2006: http://www.pbase.com/mucker/image/68361511

If you look carefully you can pick out many of the buildings pictured in this thread. The downtown area is off to the right.