The village of York Mills is distinguished from the 1920s subdivision to the south known as Hoggs Hollow.

[1] York Mills runs east of Yonge Street and ends at Victoria Park Avenue.

Near Victoria Park, most of the traffic follows Parkwoods Village Drive in connection to Ellesmere Road.

In the 1970s, when the Toronto Transit Commission extended the Line 1 Yonge subway line north from the Eglinton terminus, a new roadway alignment from York Mills to Wilson was completed in 1973 to accommodate 96 Wilson Avenue buses running directly to the new York Mills subway station rather than travelling south on Yonge Boulevard to Yonge Street terminus at Glen Echo Loop.

Before 2020, the 144 Don Valley-Downtown Express operated along the section of York Mills from Parkwoods Village Drive to Victoria Park along a clockwise loop via York Mills, Victoria Park, and Parkwoods Village Drive.