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The Michelle and Barack Obama Sports Complex, previously known as the Rancho Cienega Recreation Center, is a multibuilding sports complex in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles. [1] The complex is named after Michelle and Barack Obama , where Barack Obama held a rally at the center in 2007. [ 2 ]
The park is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. [1] As one of the largest urban parks and regional open spaces in the Greater Los Angeles Area, many have called it "L.A.'s Central Park". [2] The 401-acre (1.62 km 2) park was established in 1984. [3]
Stoner Recreation Center and Pool offer swimming classes and a junior lifeguard program. [ 8 ] The Stoner Park skatepark , known as Stoner Park Skate Plaza, opening in 2010, was designed and built by California Skateparks .
The Pio Pico–Koreatown branch of the Los Angeles Public Library is located at 7th and Oxford Streets. The Anderson-Munger branch of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles is at 3rd and Oxford Streets. There are no city parks or community gardens in Wilshire Center, and only small parks in the surrounding communities.
Los Angeles Times layout about the new South Park, September 13, 1903. The neighborhood's only recreation facility, South Park, at 345 East 51st Street, [3] was established on a 20-acre plot purchased from "the Boetcher estate" in 1900, and after its planting with orange, oak and walnut trees, it was said to "compare favorably with any of the city's older beauty spots."
East Los Angeles is the least ethnically diverse community in Los Angeles County, as noted by the Los Angeles Times' "Mapping L.A." survey. Mexican (85.4%) and Italian (0.2%) are the most common ancestries. Mexico and El Salvador were the most common foreign places of birth. [40]
The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $63,356, an average figure for Los Angeles. The average household size of 2.1 people was low for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 73.1% of the housing stock and house- or apartment owners held 26.9%. [4]
Ladera Heights is a community and unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California.The population was 6,634 at the 2020 census. [4] Culver City lies to its west, the Baldwin Hills neighborhood to its north, the View Park-Windsor Hills community to its east, the Westchester neighborhood to its south and southwest and the city of Inglewood to its southeast.