Talk:Riverdale, Toronto

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PLEASE NOTE there is no such thing as "upper" and "lower" Riverdale or “North Riverdale”. And I’ve never heard anyone used the terms. I’m guessing that real estate agents might now be using such terms to sell houses to those who are not knowledgeable about this area or Toronto. There is no real class distinction in Toronto (or so we hope).

Due to the current housing boom, South Riverdale is following Cabbagetown’s path and is currently going through gentrification, and is one of the second last main areas (not counting St. James Town) in Toronto to do so. Gentrification is also starting to take root in Parkdale.

In the inside streets close to Queen street, what many times were run down "workers cottages" from the 19th and early 20th century, have became the gentrifier’s latest find. What were run down storefronts eking by two years ago, are now interesting little shops, antiques stores, and over priced trendy restaurants. I’ve never seen an area changed so fast. Little had changed on Queen St. East from the 1950's to the late 1990's, as evident in the store fronts, old hanging signs, and many small diners, some of which are unfortunately being converted to trendy restaurants and Bistros.

This area has always been a working and poor neighbourhood. One just needs to look up and down Carlaw, across Eastern, Lakeshore and Dundas to see the old industry, and the up and coming new trendy live/work conversions.

Make no doubts about it, but the poor and underprivileged haven’t moved out quite yet, and some are still part of the street scene, as Wooodgreen (a social organization), which started from the church many years ago can attest to. More so, it seems homeless people are moving into the area, possibly from the perpetually seedy Queen and Sherbourne, where condos are also probably going up. Who would of thought in this lifetime. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.38.192.219 (talk • contribs)

Please Do not add information if you just bought a house in Riverdale a few years back, and now live in the area.

"The area's high real estate prices have encouraged many residents to call adjacent areas Riverdale too. Names such as South Riverdale (which stretches north from Lakeshore to Gerrard and east from the Don Valley Parkway to Carlaw) are a construct of real estate agents."

The areas that are not Riverdale proper, like South Riverdale, are not totally new new constructs. The above sentences make it sound like the name appearded with the last years years due to the housing boom. I think the area has been referred to as South Riverdale since the late 70's.

Blake Jones vs. The Pocket

The Pocket and Blake Jones are two separate things. The pocket as described in article is synonymous with Blake Jones, but that is not how it is know within the community. The Pocket is an area only accessible from Jones, it ends at Catham at the North and Boultbee at the south, with the TTC yard at Greenwood being the eastern verge.

There ought to be a distinction in the article, if not it's own article. There are a number of published articles that support this.