The sports field of St. Michael's College School is directly above the length of the station and a Loblaws supermarket is located over the entrance on the north side of St. Clair Avenue.

Backlit orange panels and an abstract tile pattern resembling a barcode at platform level distinguish the station from others in the system.

The TTC built its first underground streetcar loop at this station circling an exceptionally spacious waiting area for connections to surface routes.

[7] The artwork consists of many bronze snails of about 50-centimetres in size clinging to the walls of a staircase leading from the bridge over the subway tracks to the streetcar/bus platform.

[8] South of the station, the subway tunnel cuts southeast through the Nordheimer Ravine, where the emergency exit used in the Russell Hill accident is located,[9] then continues in a bored tunnel south beneath Spadina Road and under Casa Loma to Dupont Station.