Toronto's ultra-dense downtown core and vibrant streetscapes are a lot like ones found in New York City, and while Toronto and the Big Apple are often compared with one another, the two cities are still a good distance apart in terms of density, transit, commerce and nearly every other category. Despite being two very different cities with their own unique history and culture, Toronto is frequently used as a stand-in for NYC in movies and television thanks to our city's low film permit fees and the ability to have a street closed for a much lower cost than in New York. Today's Photo of the Day comes to us from Vik Pahwa, who captured this mock subway exit at York and Adelaide standing in for New York City's Wall Street Station in a film shoot for an upcoming movie called 'Pixels', a feature length adaptation of an animated French short film from 2010. 

Wall Street Station stand-in in Toronto, image by Vik Pahwa

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