East Hollywood, Los Angeles

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East Hollywood
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
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East Hollywood as viewed from the Griffith Observatory
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Boundaries of East Hollywood as drawn by the Los Angeles Times
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East Hollywood
Location within Central Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°05′25″N118°17′31″W / 34.090259°N 118.291927°W / 34.090259; -118.291927
Country United States
State California
County Los Angeles
City Los Angeles
Named for Location east of Hollywood
Elevation
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338 ft (103 m)
Time zone UTC-8 (PST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-7 (PDT)
Zip codes
90027, 90029
Area code(s) 213, 323

East Hollywood is a densely populated neighborhood with approximately 78,000 residents that is part of the Hollywood area of the central region of Los Angeles, California. Among the sites located within it are the Los Angeles City College, Barnsdall Park, and a hospital district. There are seven public and five private schools, a Los Angeles Public Library branch, and three hospitals. Almost two-thirds of the people living there were born outside the United States, and 90% were renters. According to the 2000 census, the neighborhood had high percentages of people who had never married and single parents.

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History

In the early 20th century, the East Hollywood area was a farming village that also encompassed some of what is now Los Feliz. Parts of the neighborhood were formerly known as Prospect Park.

In 1910, the towns of Hollywood and East Hollywood approved annexation to the City of Los Angeles in order to tap into the city water supply. In 1914, Children's Hospital was relocated from downtown L.A. to Vermont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard.

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Cahuenga Branch, Los Angeles Public Library

In 1916 steel magnate Andrew Carnegie donated the money to construct the Cahuenga Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library on Santa Monica Boulevard. [2]

In the early 1920s, Barnsdall Park was built. The 1920s was also a time of massive immigration into East Hollywood. Armenian immigrants established the community that is now Little Armenia. The University of California Southern Branch, needing more space, moved west at the end of the 1920s to a ranch called Westwood and became UCLA. The old Southern Branch campus then became Los Angeles Junior College, which was later renamed Los Angeles City College.

In 1930, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital was formed when Kaspare Cohn Hospital moved from East Los Angeles to a new building on Fountain Avenue and was renamed.

US 101, the Hollywood Freeway, was built between 1947 and 1949.

In the summer of 1999, three Metro Red Line subway stations opened, connecting East Hollywood more efficiently to the rest of the city.

Demographics

The 2000 U.S. census counted 73,967 residents in the 2.38-square-mile East Hollywood neighborhood—or 31,095 people per square mile, the third-highest population density in the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 78,192 - or 32,853 people per square mile. In 2000 the median age for residents was 31, about average for city and county neighborhoods; the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the county's highest. [3]

The neighborhood was "moderately diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles, the statistics being Latino people of any race, 60.4%; Asians, 15.5%; non-Hispanic Whites, 17.5%; blacks, 2.4%; and others, 4.1%. El Salvador (21.2%) and Mexico (20.1%) were the most common places of birth for the 66.5% of the residents who were born abroad—which was a high percentage compared to Los Angeles as a whole. [3]

The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $29,927, considered low for the city, and high percentages of households earned $40,000 or less. Renters occupied 91.3% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 8.7%. The average household size of three people was average for Los Angeles. The percentages of never-married women (33.3%) and men (42.6%) were among the county's highest. One-fifth of the 3,281 families were headed by single parents, a high rate for Los Angeles. [3]

In 2000 there were 1,509 veterans, or 2.8% of the population, a low rate compared with the rest of the city and county. [3]

These were the ten neighborhoods or cities in Los Angeles County with the highest population densities, according to the 2000 census, with the population per square mile: [4]

  1. Koreatown, Los Angeles, 42,611
  2. Westlake, Los Angeles, 38,214
  3. East Hollywood, Los Angeles, 31,095
  4. Pico-Union, Los Angeles, 25,352
  5. Maywood, California, 23,638
  6. Harvard Heights, Los Angeles, 23,473
  7. Hollywood, Los Angeles, 22,193
  8. Walnut Park, California, 22,028
  9. Palms, Los Angeles, 21,870
  10. Adams-Normandie, Los Angeles, 21,848

Homeless population

In 2022, there were 528 homeless individuals in East Hollywood. [5]

Geography

East Hollywood Neighborhood Council

According to The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, East Hollywood is bounded by Western Avenue on the west, Hollywood Boulevard on the north, Hoover Street on the east, and the Hollywood Freeway on the south. [6] It contains the following districts:

Mapping L.A.

According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, East Hollywood borders Los Feliz to the north and Silver Lake, about 4 miles from Downtown Los Angeles to the east. It also borders Wilshire Center to the south and Hollywood on the west.

According to the Times, East Hollywood includes the smaller neighborhoods of Thai Town, Little Armenia and Melrose Hill. [3] However, Melrose Hill is located south of the Hollywood Freeway and outside the boundaries set by The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. [7] (Melrose Hill is within the Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council.) [8] Additionally, the Times does not mention Virgil Village, but the neighborhood is within the boundaries set by the Times.

Transportation

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Vermont and Sunset, Children's Hospital in the background

East Hollywood is served by the Metro B Line subway which runs north–south along Vermont Avenue and east–west along Hollywood Boulevard.

Metro subway stations include:

Over a dozen bus lines run on the major thoroughfares, including Metro's Rapid and Local service lines. Los Angeles Department of Transportation's DASH shuttle lines, serving East Hollywood, Hollywood, and the Griffith Observatory, also operate in the area.

The 101/Hollywood Freeway cuts northwest from downtown Los Angeles, through Hollywood, to the San Fernando Valley.

Education

Thirteen percent of East Hollywood residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for the city and the county, but the percentage of residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county. [3]

Schools within East Hollywood's borders are: [9]

Notable places

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Vista Theatre in East Hollywood

Notable people

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Worldwide Elevation Finder".
  2. ↑ Murphy, Annie (28 January 2020). "Helping Everyone to Help Themselves - Andrew Carnegie and Libraries". Photo Friends. Los Angeles Public Library. Retrieved 8 August 2024. The Cahuenga Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library (situated on Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood) was built in 1916 with a $35,000 grant ($820,400 in today's economy) from Andrew Carnegie.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/east-hollywood "East Hollywood," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
  4. ↑ "Population Density". Los Angeles Times . Mapping L.A. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Homeless Count by City/Community". LAHSA. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  6. ↑ "East Hollywood Neighborhood Council Map". East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  7. ↑ "Neighborhood Council Boundary Map – East Hollywood Neighborhood Council".
  8. ↑ "Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council Map" (PDF). hsdnc.org. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
  9. ↑ http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/east-hollywood/schools/ "East Hollywood Schools," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times
  10. ↑ Aubrey Malone (1 July 2003). The Hunchback of East Hollywood: A Biography of Charles Bukowski. Headpress/Critical Vision. ISBN   978-1-900486-28-6 . Retrieved 13 August 2012.

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