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Pico-Union is the fourth-most-dense neighborhood in Los Angeles, surpassed only by East Hollywood, Westlake and Koreatown. [10] The 2000 U.S. census counted 42,324 residents in the 1.67-square-miles neighborhood—an average of 25,352 people per square mile.
[4] With the park and well-preserved homes, the district provides a complete historic neighborhood that has been featured in motion picture and television productions. While the surrounding area has been described as "low-income and multicultural," the Los Angeles Times in 1991 described Alvarado Terrace as "a slice of L.A.'s genteel and ...
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.
As a city agency struggles to address streetlight repairs across Los Angeles, neighbors in Pico-Union have been left in the dark for months. Copper wire thieves plunge L.A. neighborhood into ...
During the 1990s, local residents, community activists, faith leaders, and business owners formed a coalition and developed a community plan to revitalize the neighborhood. They wanted a name for the neighborhood, separate and distinct from the Pico-Union district. Instead of resurrecting the neighborhood's historic name, they proposed a new ...
Sheriff's deputies shot a fleeing carjacking suspect after a chase Wednesday afternoon in Pico-Union, according to officials and video of the scene.
Hollywood Hills West was the neighborhood with the largest percentage of residents holding a four-year academic degree, and Pico-Union had the lowest percentage. [11] The ethnic breakdown in 2000 was Latino 46.1%; white 26.4%, Asian 16.2%; black 8.2%, and other 3.1%. Mid-Wilshire was the most ethnically diverse neighborhood and Pico-Union the ...
A neighborhood of roughly 19,000, Pico-Robertson evolved into the epicenter of L.A.'s Jewish community over the last century. German Ashkenazi Jews settled there in the 1910s, ...