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The maps cover the 4,000 square miles [10,500 km 2] of Los Angeles County — by far the most populous county in the nation — from the high desert to the coast. In 2009, there were an estimated 9.8 million residents, up from 9.5 million counted in the 2000 U.S. census, the basis for The Times' demographic analysis for each neighborhood and ...
The historic Spanish Colonial Revival style Macy Street Viaduct. North entrance to Olvera Street from Cesar Chavez Avenue.. In October 1993, the Los Angeles City Council and the County Board of Supervisors approved the renaming of the stretch of roadway, but agreed to delay the change until 1994 and to put up historic plaques along Brooklyn Avenue to accommodate the opposition, many of whom ...
Boundary map as drawn by the Los Angeles Times on a CC-by-SA background. Note at bottom right of map on the L.A. Times website noted above says "CC-by-SA" (which gives permission to use the map).
5 lanes of roadway (2 Manhattan-bound, 3 Brooklyn-bound) Oldest suspension bridge in NYC. Also oldest suspension/cable-stayed hybrid bridge. Manhattan Bridge: 1909: 6,854 2,089: 7 lanes of roadway and trains: Double-decker bridge with 5 westbound lanes and 2 eastbound lanes. 3 of the westbound lanes and the subway are below the other 4 lanes.
Los Angeles portal; List of Los Angeles placename etymologies; Transportation in Los Angeles; Pico and Sepulveda; Los Angeles streets, 1–10; Los Angeles streets, 11–40; Los Angeles streets, 41–250; Los Angeles Avenues; List of streets in the San Gabriel Valley
Manhattan is the cultural, administrative, and financial center of New York City and contains the headquarters of many major multinational corporations, the United Nations Headquarters, Wall Street, and a number of important universities. Manhattan is often described by Americans as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of ...
Downtown and Boyle Heights areas of Los Angeles, California: Official name: Sixth Street Bridge from the LA River: Other name(s) 6th Street Viaduct: Maintained by: City of Los Angeles and California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) ID number: 53C-1880 (City of Los Angeles), 53-0595 (Caltrans) Characteristics; Design: Viaduct: Material ...
To highlight the Brooklyn Bridge's cultural status, the city proposed building a Brooklyn Bridge museum near the bridge's Brooklyn end in the 1970s. [396] Though the museum was ultimately not constructed, as many as 10,000 drawings and documents relating to it were found in a carpenter shop in Williamsburg in 1976. [ 397 ]