Fiorito: Darkness in Rosedale

A man in an apartment building south of the Rosedale subway station got in touch the other day. He told me there was a condo tower being built across the ravine; the lights from the construction site were powerfully bright, profoundly annoying, and aimed right into his building; hed made some calls, but he couldnt get anyone to do anything.

I decided to take a look. I hate it when people cant get anybody to do anything.

Also, the man who got in touch is Larry Krotz, a consummate professional freelance writer, and he also makes films, and we once had books out at the same time, and I trust him.

As I neared his address on a recent evening hey, who goes to see bright lights during the day? I saw the construction crane, and the lights on it, but I also noticed the brightness of the street lamps, and the one didnt seem worse than the others.

Oh, well, keep an open mind.

Larry and a handful of his neighbours were waiting for me in the lobby; smart people, hard-working professionals. They gave me a short history of the problem, which at that point didnt seem to me to be a very large problem.

Larry said, Construction started a couple of years ago. In July of last year, the crane went up and they started building. Some days the lights on the crane were on at night. The tenants lived with that.

But, as the building began to rise, the crane was also rising, and then the problem got worse when new and more powerful lights were added to the base of the building under construction.

Those, I hadnt seen while walking.

Stephanie Woodside said, Theyre very bright, and shining into all the apartments on the north side. I asked the obvious question:

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Fiorito: Darkness in Rosedale