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Bellevue Square Park
Category: Active Life Parks Parks [Edit]
5 Bellevue AveToronto, ON M5T 2N4
Neighbourhood: Kensington Market
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
5 reviews for Bellevue Square Park
4 reviews in English
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Review from Matty K.
Toronto, ON
9/3/2008
This is the most important park in a city on the planet, in the capital of Toronto, the Kensington Market. Only here will you find so many people from so many paths come together with a common aim. Whether anything is accomplished is another matter.
If you study psychology, there is no other place for freely observing such a variety of contemporary western homo-sapiens, and yourself among them, breathing here, now.
Also a prime spot for polar attraction, dealing, playing frisbee, singing out loud, kids, adults reading books, crackheads, punks, drunks, theorists, hippies... and surprisingly very few gangstaz.
The wading pool is open in warm months and even hires "watchers".
The kids growing up here are POTENTIALLY unlike kids anywhere else. Whether they, or anyone else but me sees this is another matter.Listed in: Kensington Market
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Review from Mandy M.
2/2/2010
It's not the most beautiful park in Toronto but there is something undeniably complex and alluring about it from an anthropological perspective (see the characters described in earlier reviews).
If I weren't a committed urbanite with a healthy appreciation for interesting characters I think I would have walked on by (my suburban friends would freak out and refuse to enter, I'm sure). I think the first time I sat down on the swing with my baby it was really an experiment, because I'm pretty yuppie and it shows. I don't think I expected to be chased out of there, but I think I expected at least a sideways glance. Sometimes amongst a group so eclectic the one thing not so well tolerated is being entirely not eclectic (guilty). But nope. Nothing. No one batted an eyelash.
It's a great, safe place to take your kids if you want to make sure they don't grow up to be sheltered, prissy brats who freak out at the site of a homeless person or a group of punk teenagers with highly interesting piercings. -
Review from Denise S.
5/20/2011
Yeah, this park in the heart of Kensington is a lil' rough around the edges, but it is a good spot to eat the empanadas or other delicious snack you picked up in the market (because so many places, e.g. agave y aguacate don't have much seating). The people-watching is pretty great too, as others have already mentioned, since there is lots of pedestrian traffic in the area. Some of those kids on skateboards are pretty impressive too.
Listed in: Get Outside
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Review from Anna V.
Toronto, ON
11/19/2008 1 photo
In the middle of Kensington market is a great little parkette called Bellevue Square. I mean, it could be a real great place to take your kids if it was filled with teenagers drinking Schnapps, homeless punks and dog crap. On the other hand, it's go it's own sort of community charmed filled with all that. I doubt that the houses that line the park were originally intended to house dozens of poor artists and students in each when they were built, and the park was probably intended as "green space". Now it's just a spot to smoke joints with your friends, and play Frisbee with your slightly mutt-faced dog.
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