Kensington Market shopping, Toronto.
No within boutiques stand in Kensington Market yet. The nearest shelves are 2.78 km away at Utopia, about 8 minutes by car.
437 pieces on those shelvesToronto's densest secondhand and vintage clothing cluster, in Victorian house fronts on Kensington Avenue, Augusta Avenue and Baldwin Street. What is sold here is almost entirely resale rather than new season, and that is true of the district rather than of a corner of it.
Courage My Love, Public Butter at 250 Augusta Avenue and Exile all sell vintage, and Tom's Place sells menswear and tailoring.
The food half of the market has thinned. Greengrocers fell from six in 2016 to one, and bars and dispensaries have taken the frontage.
No within boutique trades in the market, and none of the shops named above is one. What within can put beside them is the pre owned shelf, 2.78 km up the road at Utopia and WDLT117.
Getting to the shelves
- Utopia, 132 Cumberland Street, Toronto, ON M5R 1A6 — 2.78 km by road, about 8 minutes by car.
- WDLT117, 7 St Thomas Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1M1 — 2.92 km by road, about 8 minutes by car.
Driving times are free flow and take no account of traffic. Distances are by road from the middle of the district.
Getting here
No subway reaches the market. Queen's Park on Line 1 is 1.14 km away, about 17 minutes on foot, with St. Patrick a metre or two further and Osgoode at 1.35 km. The market's own transit is the streetcar: the 505 Dundas along its south edge and the 510 Spadina down its east edge, each roughly 280 m from the middle, with the 506 Carlton 309 m to the north.
Where it runs
College Street on the north, Spadina Avenue on the east, jogging to take in part of Kensington Avenue, Dundas Street West on the south, Bathurst Street on the west, per the City of Toronto's own BIA boundary map. The trade sits inside that square, on Kensington Avenue, Augusta Avenue and Baldwin Street. NOTE: the market's south edge is Dundas, a street north of Queen. It adjoins the Queen Street West BIA without sharing any frontage with it.
Read the Kensington Market shopping guide for the shops themselves, street by street.
What the market sells is what a within shelf sells second hand, so the two meet here: Pre owned designer piecesPre owned sneakersVintage, thrift and consignment in Toronto
A few pieces 2.78 km from here
