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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.
In the year 2000, these were the ten neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the largest percentage of black residents: [1] View Park-Windsor Hills, California, 86.5%; Gramercy Park, Los Angeles, 86.4%; Leimert Park, Los Angeles, 79.6%; Manchester Square, Los Angeles, 78.6%; Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw, Los Angeles, 71.3%; Ladera Heights ...
South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles, south of downtown. It is defined on Los Angeles city maps as a 16-square-mile (41 km 2) rectangle with two prongs at the south end. In 2003, the Los ...
18. Bel-Air It's a fact: L.A.'s wealthiest neighborhoods are, for the most part, the least pedestrian-friendly, more concerned with privacy hedges than the safe passage of foot traffic.
Normandie Gardens (Southwest Los Angeles) Pico-Union (historic, no longer very black) South of Interstate 10 in South L.A. (historic, now abandoned, called "Ghost Town") South Central (Florence/Normandie intersection site of 1992 riot) Venice (Oakwood) Vermont Knolls; Vermont Square; Vermont Vista; Victoria Park; Village Green; Watts; West ...
Historic South Central Los Angeles is a 2.25-square-mile neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, within the South Los Angeles region. It is the site of the Bob Hope Patriotic Hall. [1] [2] From the late 1800s to early 1910s, African Americans began relocating to the area, mostly organizing around landholdings of Los Angeles pioneer Biddy Mason ...
The city of Los Angeles is on the verge of redrafting blueprints for its neighborhoods to accommodate more than 250,000 new homes. But under a recommendation from the planning department, nearly ...
Many homes were destroyed despite the efforts of the Los Angeles Fire Department to suppress the flames. The fire killed three people and destroyed 69 homes; [9] the arsonist was never caught. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times noted that Baldwin Hills is "now often called the Black Beverly Hills". [10]