It mainly consists of high-rise apartment complexes, built originally to take advantage of the opening of the adjacent Victoria Park subway station, which connects to the central quadrangle via a partially covered walkway.

The Massey farm was also the home of the City Dairy Company Limited, which produced the first pasteurized milk in Canada.

In 1933, Susan Massey donated her mansion and 40 acres (16 ha) of the Dentonia farm land to Crescent School, where her grandsons were educated.

Crescent Town is considered by some as an interesting experiment in community planning in that all of its pedestrian walkways are located above the street level.

It is a multicultural neighbourhood, whose population includes extensive numbers of Bangladeshi, Indian, Jamaican, Pakistani and Tamil Canadians.