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This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Holocaust Museum LA.. The following data applies to the boundaries of Fairfax set by Mapping L.A.: The 2000 U.S. census counted 12,490 residents in the 1.23-square-mile neighborhood—an average of 10,122 people per square mile, about the same population density as all of Los Angeles.
The 8th District includes the neighborhoods of Baldwin Hills, Chesterfield Square, Crenshaw, Jefferson Park, and other communities of western South Los Angeles. [1]The district overlaps California's 37th and 43rd congressional districts, California's 28th and 35th State Senate districts, as well as California's 55th, 57th, and 61st State Assembly districts.
The 2008 Los Angeles Times ' s "Mapping L.A." project supplied these Woodland Hills neighborhood statistics: population: 59,661; median household income: $93,720. The Times said the latter figure was "high for the city of Los Angeles and high for the county." [18]
Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families.Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungles" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings. [3]
Jefferson Park is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of the City of Los Angeles, California.Located within the West Adams district, [1] there are fourteen Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the neighborhood, and in 1987, the 1923 Spanish Colonial Revival Jefferson Branch Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Boyle Heights is on the West, Lincoln Heights, El Sereno, University Hills, California State University, Los Angeles is to the Northwest, and City of Commerce are to the south. Major thoroughfares include Medford st, Eastern Ave., 3rd Street, 4th Street, Evergreen Ave and City Terrace DR. The community is part of ZIP code 90063 and area code 323.
The neighborhood has been home to many of the counter-culture, political radicals, artists, writers, architects and filmmakers in Los Angeles. The children of many progressives attended school there during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. [4] [5] By the 1930s, it was known as Red Hill, for the communists thought to live there. [3]