Hipster ground zero

Formerly a sleepy stretch of hardware stores, bakeries and auto-repair garages, in the past five years Ossington has been reborn as the (exceedingly noisy) epicentre of Toronto hipsterdom. The influx of shabby-chic watering holes, second-hand clothing boutiques and line-up-worthy restaurants was so intense that Toronto City Council had to enact a temporary liquor-licence ban to curb the strip’s expansion.