Riverside Terrace, Houston
Neighborhood in Houston, Texas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Riverside Terrace is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. It is along Texas State Highway 288 and north of the Texas Medical Center and located near Texas Southern University and University of Houston. There about 20 sections of Riverside Terrace that span across North and South MacGregor. The community, formerly an affluent Jewish neighborhood, became an affluent community for African Americans in the 1950s and '60s. It is still predominantly African American neighborhood with different income levels. It has been undergoing a gradual change in demographics and aesthetics due to gentrification efforts since the early 2000s.[1]
Some articles of the Houston Chronicle describe it as within Third Ward,[2][3] while some articles discuss Riverside Terrace as being a separate community.[4]