[citation needed] In 1996, the Toronto Transit Commission extended subway service to the area with the opening of the Sheppard West station, at Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue, allowing a thirty-minute train ride to Union Station at the southern cusp of downtown Toronto.

Bathurst Manor's Top ten ethnic and cultural groups (by ancestry) in 2016:[2] The percentage of population below the poverty line dropped from 22% (in 1996) to 18% (in 2001).

Bathurst Manor is part of the Federal and Provincial riding of York Centre, represented by M.P.

Several municipal parks in the neighbourhood are situated near the Don Valley, which forms a part of the Toronto ravine system.

At its peak, it was the largest privately owned summer day camp in Canada, with over 900 campers, and operated through 1993.

In 1973 the grade ten students from Downsview Secondary School built a suspension bridge across the ravine as part of their workshop experience.

Beginning in 1998, Camp NAORCA summer camp operated by Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division moved here from its previous location at Seneca College, King Campus, and the Toronto District School Board uses this space during the school year to educate 21,000 students per year.

In one story, "Roman Berman - Massage Therapist", the title character takes an office in the medical building at Bathurst Manor Plaza, which is still standing and in use.

There was also a smaller Bathurst Manor Plaza shopping centre at the intersection of Wilmington and Overbrook.