The apartment buildings mostly date from the 1950s through the 1970s, and have remained rental buildings while no large condominium projects have been built west of Dufferin Street. Several streets, notably Jameson Avenue and Tyndall Avenue have been converted to zones of apartment buildings. Parkdale has a higher than average amount of rental housing. Victorian-era row homes are found at Melbourne Place in Parkdale. Victorian-era row homes of Georgian Revival style with original gaslights can also be seen on Melbourne Place. Good examples of Victorian housing can still be found on Cowan Avenue and Dunn Avenue, south of King Street. Many of the residential streets have mature trees. Around 1900, the area was a well-to-do suburb and many older mansions from around 1900 still exist, often converted to multi-unit buildings. Many of the homes date from the 19th Century and early 20th Century. Parkdale is primarily a residential area of the city, with semi-detached homes predominating on most side streets.
The area has a vibrant storefront commercial strip along Queen Street West that has seen an increase in restaurants and bars in the 2010s, increasing to the point that planning controls were put in place on the opening of new restaurants and bars from 2012. The distribution of said visible minorities has changed from being predominantly Black visible minorities to predominantly South Asian (between 20 census). The visible minority population in North Parkdale has changed overall to include fewer Asian, South Asian and Black residents between the census years 2006-2011 (GNR: 34%). Today, it is a working-class neighbourhood, with a large percentage of low-income households concentrated in South Parkdale, and an entry point for new immigrants, most recently South Asians and Tibetan. The demographic composition changed considerably, including a higher proportion of lower income and newcomer families. Some of the older large residential buildings remain though many were converted into rooming houses. A boom in apartment building construction followed, replacing whole blocks of homes with blocks of apartment buildings. The area changed dramatically with the building of the Gardiner Expressway in 1955, which resulted in the demolition of the southern section of the neighbourhood and the Sunnyside Amusement Park, and the creation of a barrier between the neighbourhood and the north shore of Lake Ontario. It was an upper-income residential area for the first half of the 20th century, with several notable mansions. It was incorporated as a village in 1879 and amalgamated with Toronto in 1889. Parkdale was founded as an independent settlement within York County in the 1850s. The City of Toronto government extends the neighbourhood boundaries to the east, south of the CP Rail lines, east to Atlantic Avenue, as far south as the CN Rail lines north of Exhibition Place, the part south of King Street commonly known as the western half of Liberty Village neighbourhood. The village area was roughly one square kilometre in area. The original village incorporated an area north of Queen Street, east of Roncesvalles from Fermanagh east to the main rail lines, today known as part of the Roncesvalles neighbourhood.
It is bounded on the east by Dufferin Street from Queen Street south, and on the south by Lake Ontario. The neighbourhood is bounded on the west by Roncesvalles Avenue, on the north by the CP Rail line where it crosses Queen Street and Dundas Street. Parkdale is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown.
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