thumb|right|Eastside Los Angeles<br /><small>Los Angeles Times</small>

The Eastside is an urban region in Los Angeles County, California. It includes the Los Angeles City neighborhoods east of the Los Angeles River—that is, Boyle Heights, El Sereno, and Lincoln Heights—as well as unincorporated East Los Angeles.

History

thumb|right|250px|[[Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, 2007]]

East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 by John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles". In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each. They planned the laying out of streets of the present community of East Los Angeles and gifted East Side Park (the present Lincoln Park) to the city of Los Angeles.

The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times defines the Eastside as comprising Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, and East Los Angeles.

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 of Downtown Los Angeles but on the eastern side of Central Los Angeles, such as Echo Park and Silver Lake, began to refer to their neighborhoods as part of the Eastside.

Communities

thumb|[[California State University, Los Angeles, Student Union and Luckman Auditorium, 2010]]

City of Los Angeles

The official East Area Planning Commission area of the City of Los Angeles is divided into the following communities:

  • Boyle Heights
  • Lincoln Heights
  • El Sereno
  • Northeast Los Angeles
  • Atwater Village
  • Cypress Park
  • Eagle Rock
  • Garvanza
  • Glassell Park
  • Hermon
  • Highland Park
  • Montecito Heights
  • Mount Washington
  • Rose Hills

Mapping L.A.

thumb|right|220px|[[Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School]]

The Mapping L.A. project by the Los Angeles Times lists the following City of Los Angeles neighborhoods in its definition of the Eastside:

  • El Sereno
  • Lincoln Heights

Education

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! High Schools

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|Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School

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|Los Angeles County High School for the Arts

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|Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School

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|Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School

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|James A. Garfield High School

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|Theodore Roosevelt High School

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|Abraham Lincoln High School

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|Woodrow Wilson High School

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|Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School

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|Esteban Torres High School

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Population and housing

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 the Eastside 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 a four-year college degree. More than two-thirds (66.8%) of the inhabitants lived in shared housing, and 33.2% were homeowners.

Notable places

thumb|[[Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building (Los Angeles, California)]]

  • Latino Walk of Fame - East Los Angeles
  • Mariachi Plaza - Boyle Heights
  • El Mercado de Los Angeles - Boyle Heights
  • Calvary Cemetery (Roman Catholic) - East Los Angeles
  • Home of Peace Cemetery (Jewish) - East Los Angeles
  • Evergreen Cemetery - Boyle Heights
  • Estrada Courts Murals - Boyle Heights
  • El Pino (The Pine Tree) - East Los Angeles

Notable people

  • will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.), musician, producer, philanthropist
  • Herb Alpert, trumpeter, producer
  • Narciso Botello (about 1813–1889) Mexican Army officer, California State Assembly member
  • Anthony Quinn, actor
  • Howard E. Dorsey, engineer, politician
  • Jaime Escalante, educator
  • Kid Frost, musician
  • John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), surgeon, founder of East Los Angeles, member of Los Angeles Common Council
  • Dan Peña, financial analyst on Wall Street
  • Luis J. Rodriguez, writer and activist
  • Andy Russell, international recording artist
  • Hope Sandoval, singer-songwriter

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File:Self-Help-Graphics.png|The Self-Help Graphics & Art building

File:CASA 0101.jpg|CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights

File:Mariachi Plaza Station LACMTA.jpg|L Line Mariachi Plaza Station, 2009

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See also

  • My Family/Mi Familia, Motion Picture of life in East Los Angeles
  • Born in East L.A., motion picture
  • Chicano, ethnic term
  • East LA Classic, football game
  • Blood In Blood Out, motion picture
  • City Times in Los Angeles Times suburban sections
  • Zoot Suit Riots, 1943
  • Ten Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles County

Further reading

References

  • The Eastsider LA
  • East LA Guide