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  2. Lincoln Park (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln Park in Los Angeles, California, was originally created by the City of Los Angeles in 1881 from land donated by John Strother Griffin. It was one of Los Angeles's first parks. It was originally called East Los Angeles Park, then Eastlake Park in 1901. On May 19, 1917, the park was renamed Lincoln Park after Lincoln High School.

  3. Boyle Heights, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Boyle Heights, historically known as Paredón Blanco (Spanish for "White Bluff"), [2] [3] [4] is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located east of the Los Angeles River. It is one of the city's most notable and historic Chicano / Mexican-American communities and is known as a bastion of Chicano culture , hosting cultural landmarks like ...

  4. Eastside Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Eastside Los Angeles. The Eastside is an urban region in Los Angeles County, California. It includes the Los Angeles City neighborhoods east of the Los Angeles River —that is, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, and Lincoln Heights —as well as unincorporated East Los Angeles.

  5. Highland Park, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    UTC−8 (PST) • Summer (DST) UTC−7 (PDT) ZIP Code. 90041–90042. Area code. 213 / 323. Highland Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, located in the city's Northeast region. It was one of the first subdivisions of Los Angeles [ 3 ] and is inhabited by a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

  6. Logan Heights Gang - Wikipedia

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    History. The Logan Heights Gang was established in Southeast San Diego, when several individual Mexican-American street gangs from the neighborhoods of Barrio Logan, Logan Heights, and Memorial unified. The gangs date back to car clubs in the 1970s. [2] Currently the gang is composed of five main subsets (Red Steps, 30th Street, 33rd Street ...

  7. Baldwin Village, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    History. 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 ...

  8. Avenues (gang) - Wikipedia

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    The Avenues, also known as Avenidas or AVE's, is a Mexican/Mexican American criminal street gang mostly in Los Angeles County, California. They originally started as a social club for local Latino youths to protect themselves from other violent youths. The Avenues, like most Mexican gangs in Los Angeles, are under the direct control of the ...

  9. Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    UTC-7 (PDT) ZIP code. 90031. Area code (s) 323, 213, etc. Lincoln Heights is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was originally called "East Los Angeles" from 1873 to 1917. It is a densely populated, mostly Latino and Asian neighborhood that includes many historic landmarks and was known as "the Bedroom ...