Parc-Extension

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About this Neighborhood

Parc-Extension is where Montreal's immigration story actually lives — South Asian, Greek, Sri Lankan, and West African communities stacked into a neighborhood so dense it registers as a foreign city inside a Canadian one. Twenty-two restaurants is a deceptively low count for this population; many of the real action happens in cash-only storefronts that don't register in OSM data. Bombay Mahal is the neighborhood's culinary institution, a South Indian restaurant that's been proving itself for decades. The grocery count of 2 (z=-1.4, gap) is one of the dataset's lowest, which seems impossible until you understand that Parc-X provisions through informal networks, ethnic grocery chains, and Marché Bakar, none of which map cleanly to categories. Thirteen coffee shops including Café la place commune are the emerging café layer. Five basketball courts and 13 parks including Parc Jarry give the neighborhood serious outdoor infrastructure. Social glue of 93 is the highest in this entire dataset — Parc-Extension is a community that has never had the luxury of not knowing its neighbors. The UdeM expansion threatens to change that.