 Crescent Town is at the eastern end of Old East York and was founded on the former site of the Crescent School to take advantage of the adjacent Victoria Park station.Crescent Town is today a diverse multicultural neighbourhood, whose population includes extensive numbers of Bengali, Jamaican, Pakistani, and Tamil Canadians.Housing stock is a pleasing mixture of mid-rise apartments, Victorian mansions, highrise condominiums, Edwardian workers cottages, and stately 1920s Craftsman homes.