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]
[...]Riverside Terrace is located near the University of Houston in Third Ward, east of Highway 288 from the Texas Medical Center.
Just southeast of downtown, near the University of Houston, and bordered by Highway 288 on the west[...][Riverside Terrace is south of the core of Third Ward]