The Eastside is an urbanregion inLos Angeles County, California. It includes the Los Angeles City neighborhoods east of theLos Angeles River—that is,Boyle Heights,El Sereno, andLincoln Heights—as well as unincorporatedEast Los Angeles.
East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 byJohn Strother Griffin (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles".[1] In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each.[2][3] They planned thelaying out of streets of the present community of East Los Angeles and gifted East Side Park (the presentLincoln Park) to the city of Los Angeles.[3][4]
TheMapping L.A. project of theLos Angeles Times defines the Eastside as comprising Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, and East Los Angeles.[5] However, the boundaries are a matter of perennial discussion and debate among the residents of Los Angeles.[6]
The Mapping L.A. definition corresponds to the traditional boundaries, but, beginning in the early 21st century, residents of some of the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods west ofDowntown Los Angeles but on the eastern side ofCentral Los Angeles, such asEcho Park andSilver Lake, began to refer to their neighborhoods as part of the Eastside.[6] This debate generated some friction, which, according to Ali Modarres, an expert on the geography of Los Angeles from theUniversity of Washington Tacoma, is to be expected because neighborhood names are "full of meaning, nuances, history, cultural and political relationships".Eric Garcetti, former mayor of Los Angeles and a fourth generation resident, is a traditionalist, stating that "true east is east of downtown".[6]
The trend led theSilver Lake Neighborhood Council to declare officially in February 2014 that Silver Lake is not part of the Eastside.[6]
TheSixth Street Viaduct, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge was demolished. Prior to the demolition, Los Angeles mayorEric Garcetti recorded therap song "101SlowJam", backed by musicians fromRoosevelt High School, and issued it via a video on his ownYouTube channel. Thepublic service announcement video advertised the closure of parts of the 101 Freeway to accommodate the demolition of the viaduct.[7][8]
The official East Area Planning Commission area of the City of Los Angeles is divided into the following communities:[9]
TheMapping L.A. project by theLos Angeles Times lists the following City of Los Angeles neighborhoods in its definition of the Eastside:[5]
The following data applies to the boundaries of the Eastside established by Mapping L.A.:
In 2000, 286,222 people lived in the 20.66 square miles of theEastside region, amounting to 13,852 people per square mile.The neighborhood was "not especially diverse" ethnically, with a high percentage of Latinos. The ethnic breakdown was Latino, 91.2%; Asian, 5.2%, white, 2.3%; black, 0.7% and other, 0.6%. Just 5.1% of residents aged 25 and older had afour-year college degree. More than two-thirds (66.8%) of the inhabitants lived in shared housing, and 33.2% were homeowners.[5]
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