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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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
In the California State Senate, Los Angeles County is split between 13 legislative districts. [67] In the California State Assembly, Los Angeles County is split between 24 legislative districts. [68] On November 4, 2008, Los Angeles County was almost evenly split over Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex ...
Appointed to serve until next election. Lost election. Tom Bradley (Leimert Park) Democratic: April 2, 1963 – June 30, 1973 Elected in 1963. Re-elected in 1967. Re-elected in 1971. Resigned to become Mayor of Los Angeles. Vacant: June 30, 1973 – September 18, 1973 David S. Cunningham Jr. (Baldwin Hills) Democratic: September 18, 1973 ...
Thomas Jefferson High School, usually referred to as Jefferson High School, is a public high school in South Los Angeles. Founded in 1916, it is the fourth oldest high school in the school district. Jefferson's school colors are kelly green and gold and the sports teams are called the Democrats, or Demos for short. In 2006, a pilot program ...