Boyle Heights is a district on the east side of Los Angeles, California. Originally owned by the early L.A. Boyle_Workman family, it was subdivided in 1875 and named after Andrew Boyle. Always one of the most heterogenous neighborhoods in the city, it was a center of Jewish and Japanese-American life in the early 20th century, and is now a strongly Latino district. This evolution is evidenced, among many other ways, by the name of the main drag: once Brooklyn Avenue, it was rechristened Cesar Chavez Boulevard. Boyle Heights is crisscrossed by several major freeways, including the San Bernardino Freeway and the Santa Ana Freeway.
As of the census of 2000, there are 87,426 people in the neighborhood. The racial makeup of the neighborhood is 36.50% White (1.61% non-Latino white), 0.98% African American, 1.11% Native American, 2.06% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 54.75% from other races, and 4.53% from two or more races. 94.95% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
External links
Boyle Heights: Neighborhood Sites and Insights (http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/pase/bhproject/)
BoyleHeights is a district on the East Side of Los Angeles, California.
BoyleHeights lies on the east bank of the Los Angeles River.
Downtown Los Angeles lies to the west, Lincoln Heights lies to the north, City Terrace and East Los Angeles are to the east, Commerce is to the southeast, and Vernon is to the south.
BoyleHeights was mainly an agricultural region that grew food for the rest of the town of Los Angeles.
The land that was not taken by vineyards in BoyleHeights was all the land that was on the hills.
This land of BoyleHeights is mapped out from the Los Angeles River in the west to what is now Indiana Street to the east and from Valley Boulevard in the north to Washington Street in the south.
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