Editing Riverdale, Toronto (section)

===South Riverdale===
[[File:Broadview Hotel Toronto 2017.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Erected in 1893, [[Broadview Hotel (Toronto)|Broadview Hotel]] is located in Riverside, an area of South Riverdale.]]
"South Riverdale", as its name suggests, is the southern half of the Riverdale neighbourhood, south of Lower Riverdale. Its approximate boundaries are: the [[Don Valley Parkway]] to the west, Jones Ave. to the east, [[Gerrard Street (Toronto)|Gerrard Street East]] to the north, and [[Lake Shore Boulevard]] to the south.

South Riverdale comprises many smaller neighbourhoods:
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====Riverside====
"Riverside", also known as the "Queen Broadview Village" is a neighbourhood located within the larger neighbourhood of South Riverdale. The Riverside Business Improvement Area places the definite boundaries as running along the Don River and bordering the streets of Gerrard Street East, Empire Avenue, and Eastern Avenue.
[[File:Ralph Thornton Centre.JPG|thumb|upright|The [[Ralph Thornton Community Centre]] is a local landmark in Riverside.]]
Riverside is a mixed income and multicultural neighbourhood currently experiencing a trend of "gentrification" along Queen St. East and Broadview Ave. It had been home to the Don Destructor, a Toronto garbage incinerator which was demolished in 2004. Don Mount Court, a social housing project was recently redeveloped as a mixed social housing and market value community. The market value portion is being sold under the name Rivertowne.

Riverside is known for its many historic buildings and rich cultural heritage. The biggest landmark in the neighbourhood is the [[Broadview Hotel (Toronto)|Broadview Hotel]], a red sandstone commercial block in Romanesque style constructed in 1891–3, that was the tallest structure in South Riverdale for many decades. Other major landmarks include the [[Ralph Thornton Community Centre]],(Queen Saulter branch Toronto Public Library) [[Broadview Lofts]], and [[The Opera House (Toronto)|The Opera House]]. Riverside was also the location of [[Sunlight Park]], Toronto's first baseball stadium.

The area has a large young population, evident in the cluster of schools just east of Broadview Avenue.  Dundas Junior Public School is the resident school for children in kindergarten through to fifth grade, after which they are transferred to Queen Alexandra Sr. Public School which sees students through to eighth grade. It is also home to the First Nations School of Toronto, a cultural survival school that places heavy emphasis on aboriginal values and culture, and SEED Alternative Secondary School, Canada's first public alternative school.

Riverside is rapidly emerging as a district of independent design, furniture, and food retailers, as well as restaurants.

The southern industrial area was occupied by Lever Brothers Soap Factory from 1890s until 2009.<ref> https://spacing.ca/toronto/2017/11/20/my-grandfather-worked-here-the-unilever-soap-factory-in-photos-and-memory/</ref> The factory demolished is now waiting for redevelopment as commercial and industrial use by [[Cadillac Fairview]].

====East Chinatown====
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[[File:Eastchina Town at Gerrard St E 2023.jpg|thumb|Toronto's second largest [[Chinatown, Toronto|Chinatown]], also known as East Chinatown, is located north of Riverside, around Broadview Avenue and [[Gerrard Street (Toronto)|Gerrard Street]].]]
Toronto's second largest Chinatown, also known as [[East Chinatown, Toronto|East Chinatown]] is found at Broadview & Gerrard. At the northernmost corner of East Chinatown (northwest corner, Broadview Avenue and [[Gerrard Street (Toronto)|Gerrard Street]]) is the Riverdale branch of the [[Toronto Public Library]]. This branch is [[Multilingualism|bilingual]] in Chinese and English. North of the library is the monument to [[Sun Yat-sen]]. Construction on the [[Paifang|Toronto Chinese Archway]] began in the western end of East Chinatown on November 24, 2008, and it opened to the public on September 12, 2009. There are only two streets with bilingual signs (English on top, Chinese on the bottom), Broadview Avenue (百樂匯街) and Gerrard Street East (芝蘭東街), and signs located three of the four corners of the intersection.

====Studio District====
The southern part of South Riverdale, just north of the [[Port Lands]], is what's called the "Studio District". Industrial warehouses along Lakeshore Avenue house production studios, and many people working in film and television live in the old Victorians found along the area's side streets. Carlaw and Queen has become an arts hub, with many artists choosing to run their studios from the various work-live lofts.