Editing Riverdale, Toronto (section)

====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]].