Yonge Street in Toronto, Ontario is a well-known Canadian street running from Lake Ontario extending north to around the Holland Marsh area. Until only recently, it was noted in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world measuring 1,896 km. Yonge Street is also known as a national historic site.
Now what makes Yonge Street special is that it is home to many many many attractions in Toronto, with some of them being street and theatre performances, the Eaton Centre, the Toronto Star building, the Hockey Hall of Fame, BCE Place, Elgin Theatre, the Canon Theatre, the new revitalized Yonge-Dundas Square, College Park condos, the Toronto Reference Library (huge), the Masonic Temple, Ryerson University (close by), Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Mel Lastman Square in North York and the Toronto Centre for the Arts to name a few.
Yonge Street is known as Toronto's main street, and has been imortalized in many Canadian and American pop music songs because of its central point dividing Toronto by the east and west, as well having the major subway route focused up Yonge Street. From one walk up Yonge Street you can see the cultural diversity, the vast array of architectural wonders and well as a shopping haven for any credit card enthusiast. And in certain times it can certainly attract hoardes and hordes of people, for example when the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series in 1992/93. over 1,000,000 people gathered in the Yonge and Dundas area. Now that's a city for you.
As such, Yonge Street is a gathering place for public celebrations and people alike. In recent years Yonge Street has been modernized to become what many people feel is a mini-Times Square.
