Preston Street (Ottawa)

Preston Street (Ottawa Road #73) is a street in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, running between Albert Street and Carling Avenue. It is the main commercial district in Little Italy, home to numerous small business and Italian restaurants, and is synonymous with "Little Italy" to many Ottawa residents when referring to area businesses.

Since 1974, Preston and its side streets are closed to traffic each June for the Italian Week festival, Ottawa's celebration of Italian culture.

In 1987, alderman Mac Harb led the creation of the Preston Street Business Improvement Area, representing local businesses to the City of Ottawa. Preston Street is marked at Carling Avenue by a metal arch lit in the colours of the Italian flag, built in 2002 to attract tourists from the Dow's Lake area immediately to the south.

Preston Street has been given a commemorative Italian name Corso Italia.

Roads in Ottawa

Provincial Highways	7 416 417

Major Arteries	4th Line Tenth Line Airport Albion Bank Baseline Blair Bronson Carling Carp Cedarview Conroy Donnelly Dwyer Hill Eagleson Elgin Fallowfield Greenbank Hazeldean Heron Hunt Club Innes King Edward March Merivale Mitch Owens Moodie Montreal Parkdale Prince of Wales Regional Road 174 Richmond Rideau River Riverside Robertson St. Joseph St. Laurent Strandherd Terry Fox Vanier Walkley Wellington Woodroffe

Collectors/Secondary Arteries	Albert Alta Vista Bankfield Beechwood Booth Brookfield Gladstone Hawthorne Hog's Back Jockvale Katimavik Kent Laurier Lees Leitrim Main Maitland Meadowlands Metcalfe Nicholas North Gower O'Connor Old Prescott Osgoode Main Pinecrest Preston Russell Slater Smyth Somerset Sparks St. Patrick Sussex Tremblay Trim

Federal arteries	Aviation Colonel By Island Park Rockcliffe Sir John A. Macdonald Queen Elizabeth

Roads in Ontario

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“Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to
And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)