 Alvarado Street, looking north from just southwest of the Wilshire Boulevard intersection. The eastern edge of MacArthur Park is at center. Langer's Deli is just out of view on the right. Westlake is a district in Los Angeles, California. It should not be confused with Westlake Village, an independent municipality in Los Angeles County near Thousand Oaks and close to the Ventura County line. Image File history File linksMetadata Westlaketour48. ...
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Location of Westlake Village in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1981-12-11 [2] Government - Mayor Susan McSweeney [1] Area - City 5. ...
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Ventura County is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area, located on Californias Pacific coast. ...
Westlake derives its name from the lake in what is now MacArthur Park. MacArthur Park looking towards downtown LA MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park) is a park in Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100. ...
Geography and transportation
Westlake is bordered by Downtown Los Angeles on the southeast, Pico-Union on the south, Koreatown on the west, Virgil Village on the north, and Echo Park on the northeast. Its boundaries are roughly the Hollywood Freeway on the northeast, the Harbor Freeway on the southeast, Olympic Boulevard on the south, and Hoover Street on the west. One major subdistricts includes Lafayette Park Square. Skyline of downtown Los Angeles Bunker Hill as seen from Los Angeles City Hall Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. ...
The intersection of Pico and Union Pico-Union is a district in central Los Angeles, California. ...
Wilshire Boulevard in Koreatown Koreatown is a community of the Wilshire Center district in the Mid-Wilshire area of the City of Los Angeles, California. ...
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The lake in Echo Park. ...
The Hollywood Freeway is one of the principal freeways of Los Angeles, California (the boundaries of which it does not leave) and one of the busiest in the United States. ...
The Harbor Freeway goes under many bridges as it passes through downtown Los Angeles The Harbor Freeway is one of the principal north-south freeways in Los Angeles County, California. ...
Principal thoroughfares include Beverly, Wilshire, and Rampart Boulevards and Alvarado, Temple, Hoover, and Third Streets. The district is served by the Hollywood and Harbor Freeways. The Metro Red Line subway runs through the district on its way to Hollywood and Koreatown, with a stop at Alvarado Street. Beverly Boulevard is one of the main east-west thoroughfares in Los Angeles. ...
Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile District, looking east toward Downtown Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood, looking east toward the Millionaires Mile Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California. ...
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History One of the first areas of Los Angeles west of Figueroa Street to see residential development, by the 1920s Westlake resembled the Upper East Side of Manhattan (complete with a large Jewish population). Wealthy businessmen commuted to downtown, Wilshire Center (now Koreatown), Hollywood, and the Miracle Mile from the district's Spanish Revival and Art Deco mansions. The district's less affluent northeastern blocks also became the home of Los Angeles' Filipino population, much of which remains in Westlake and nearby neighborhoods to this day. The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. ...
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The Miracle Mile The Miracle Mile is lined by many high-rise buildings. ...
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Westlake suffered greatly from the closure of the Pacific Electric streetcar line and the construction of Los Angeles' network of freeways in the 1950s. By the 1960s, virtually all of its white population had decamped to the West Side or the suburbs, replaced with transients who had been pushed out of Bunker Hill by "urban renewal" in the 1950s, and Mexican-Americans in the 50s and 60s, who themselves moved out for suburbs by the middle 1970s. Most of Westlake's elegant mansions were subdivided into apartments at this time, and many of its Beaux-Arts apartment buildings became residential hotels. Meanwhile, MacArthur Park became notorious for its narcotics dealers, heroin addicts, and prostitutes. The Pacific Electric Railway main company depot at Sixth Street and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles, circa 1910. ...
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The Westside is generally considered to be the portion of Los Angeles, California and its suburbs that lies east of the Pacific Ocean including Brentwood, west of La Brea Avenue (varying definitions set the boundary at Fairfax Avenue or even the eastern border of Beverly Hills), south of the Santa...
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Bunker Hill as seen from Los Angeles City Hall Bunker Hill, in the downtown area of Los Angeles, California, is a short, developed hill with its peak located roughly around 3rd Street. ...
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In the 1980s Westlake became the home of Los Angeles' vibrant but severely impoverished Salvadorian and Guatemalan community, exiles from the civil and CIA wars in Central America at the time, and which was drawn to the area's cheap housing. The concurrent development of adjacent Bunker Hill as a major commercial district provided many of the newcomers with employment as custodians and restaurant kitchen staff. This article is about the country in the Americas; for other uses, see El Salvador (disambiguation). ...
The neighborhood as of 2006 Westlake is now the most densely populated neighborhood in Los Angeles, with a population density of 36,095 persons/mile²[1]. (Given that the Westlake Community Plan Area also includes Pico-Union, which is considerably less dense, it is likely that Westlake's population density exceeds 45,000 persons/mile².) As a surprisingly large number of these residents own cars, the district has severe traffic congestion that was only partially relieved by the late-1990s addition of the Red Line. MacArthur Park, while somewhat less dangerous than at its nadir in the 1980s, is still somewhat unsafe. It has become a popular destination for illegal immigrants, playing host to numerous vendors of phony driver's licenses, work permits, and Social Security cards. Westlake gained greater notoriety in the late 1990s from the Rampart Division scandal that rocked the Los Angeles Police Department. For the 1983 Genesis song, see Illegal Alien (song) Illegal immigration refers to immigration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. ...
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The Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department serves communities to the west and northwest of Downtown Los Angeles including Echo Park, Pico-Union and Westlake, all together designated as the Rampart patrol area. ...
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The California real estate boom that began in the early 2000s has brought some gentrification to Westlake. Korean immigrants, priced out of increasingly expensive Koreatown, have begun to establish themselves in the district. Several major residential developments, most notably The Medici (an apartment complex notably popular among students at the University of Southern California), have been built in the district, and a large office tower at 1100 Wilshire has undergone conversion into a high-end condominium in late 2006. The district's economic revitalization remains slow and fitful with crime remaining a major concern. The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...
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Emergency services
Fire service Los Angeles Fire Department Station 11 is in the area. It has been suggested that Warner Lawrence be merged into this article or section. ...
Police service Los Angeles Police Department operates the Rampart Community Police Station at 2710 West Temple Street, 90026, serving the neighborhood [2]. “LAPD†redirects here. ...
Education Westlake is served by the Los Angeles Unified School District. The Los Angeles Unified School District (the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ...
Belmont High School and Miguel Contreras Learning Complex serve Westlake. Belmont Senior High School is a public high school located at 1575 West 2nd Street in Downtown Los Angeles. ...
Miguel Contreras Learning Complex is a secondary school in Los Angeles, California, United States. ...
Much of its school-age population must be bussed to schools in the San Fernando Valley and Glendale, owing to delays in the construction of the Belmont Learning Center (west of the Harbor Freeway at 1st and Beaudry) and overcrowding at the area's other schools. San Fernando Valley from its southwestern edge. ...
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Belmont Learning Center is an extension to the existing Belmont Senior High School on West 2nd Street in Los Angeles. ...
Attractions In addition to MacArthur Park, Westlake plays host to a number of Los Angeles landmarks. In the 1980s, a former Pacific Electric tunnel near 1st Street, the Belmont Tunnel / Toluca Substation and Yard, became a famous canvas for graffiti artists, drawing visitors from around the world. Numerous Los Angeles culinary landmarks also lie within the neighborhood. One of the few reminders of the area's Jewish history is Langer's Deli at Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street, a delicatessen whose hot pastrami sandwiches have been declared the finest in the United States by The New Yorker (a publication not especially known for its love of Los Angeles). The first American location of Mexican restaurant chain El Pollo Loco opened on Alvarado in 1980, just north of 6th Street. Finally, the first Tommy's hamburger stand still operates at the corner of Beverly and Rampart Boulevards. MacArthur Park looking towards downtown LA MacArthur Park (formerly Westlake Park) is a park in Los Angeles, California, named after General Douglas MacArthur and designated city of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #100. ...
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