Storefronts along Queen Street East run low and brick, backed by streets of small houses with front porches.
What Leslieville looks like
Queen Street East carries Leslieville's commercial strip, one to four storeys of brick and clapboard with flat, gabled and mansard rooflines over the ground floor shops. Storefronts keep their older display windows and transoms, and streetcar tracks run down the middle of the road.
At Leslie Street, the keeps High Victorian brickwork and arched windows under later paint and signage. Farther east, 935 Queen Street East has a turret roofed porch on Doric columns and a plate glass storefront with a leaded glass transom. Its gable is finished in diamond shingles. The , red brick and Neo-Gothic, dates from 1878.
Behind the strip, side streets carry two and three storey wood frame and brick houses, some behind low iron and wood fences with small front gardens. , an Edwardian house and infirmary built around 1910, still stands at 923 Queen Street East. , a few blocks north, has a row of multicoloured benches under crabapple trees beside a playground.
Carlaw Avenue, one block over, carries former factory buildings now converted to other uses. The occupy the old chewing gum plant, and the Toronto Hydro Electric sub-station stands at Carlaw and Gerrard. Former industrial buildings elsewhere in the neighbourhood, including Cinevillage and Showline Studios, now operate as film studios.
Shot in Leslieville
The FOX series Memory of a Killer used Brick Street Bakery on Logan Avenue as the fictional Belinda's Bakeshop, standing in for a bakery in the small upstate New York town of Hudson Springs. In the 2013 film The F Word, released in the United States as What If, Daniel Radcliffe's character sits on a Leslieville rooftop looking out over the downtown skyline.
What We Do in the Shadows
Played Satchel Serafina
A storefront on Queen Street East called BSIDE Beauty played the witches' shop Satchel Serafina in the season 2 finale block of the FX series What We Do in the Shadows. The shop's Byzantine basilica style interior was built as a set, and only the storefront itself is the real Leslieville location.
Bridgeport's low brick storefronts and older painted signage read close to Queen Street East, and the frame and brick houses on its side streets match Leslieville's own scale. Chicago's rear alleys and taller greystone fronts would need to stay out of a wide shot to hold the match. Try searching low brick storefronts now.
Riverwest's brick corner stores and small frame houses on narrow lots sit at a similar scale to the streets behind Queen Street East. Riverwest's taller front porches and steeper roof pitches show up in a wide shot and would need to stay out of frame. Try searching brick corner stores now.
Warren Street in Hudson, New York
Warren Street's low brick storefronts and older signage match the small town main street scale of Leslieville's own strip. Warren Street's storefronts run taller and more ornate than Queen Street East, so a tighter frame on one or two buildings holds the match better. Try searching small town brick storefronts now.
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