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This is a list of notable streets in Los Angeles, California. They are grouped by type: arterial thoroughfares, commercial corridors, and other streets.
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 avenue numbers generally reflect the Los Angeles street grid beginning with Avenue 16 at the 1600 block north of 1st Street in Downtown through Avenue 67 at the 6700 block in Highland Park. [4] North of the Los Angeles River Pasadena Avenue and Figueroa Street assume the role of Main Street and divide house numbers on streets running east ...
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 ...
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 ...
6th street travels continuously for nine miles across central and downtown Los Angeles.From west to east, 6th street begins on the Los Angeles-Beverly Hills border, then travels through central Los Angeles (including the neighborhoods of Mid-Wilshire, Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Koreatown, Wilshire Center, and Westlake), then continues through downtown (including the Financial District ...
Now, Los Angeles Street turns east at the north side of the Plaza to terminate at Alameda Street at a right angle, directly across from the Union Station complex. What was the short block of Los Angeles Street north of the Plaza is now part of Placita Dolores, a small open plaza which surrounds a statue of Mexican charro entertainer Antonio ...
De Soto Avenue was named after Hernando de Soto, a Spanish explorer who led the first European expedition into the southeastern United States.Several of the San Fernando Valley's north–south streets were originally named after historic explorers, including De Soto, Balboa, Alvarado, Cabrillo, Cortez, and Diaz, but De Soto Avenue and Balboa Boulevard are the only street names that remain.