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This is a list of notable streets in Los Angeles, California. They are grouped by type: arterial thoroughfares, commercial corridors, and other streets.
La Cienega Boulevard is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called "West Los Angeles." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive ...
Los Angeles High School building opened 1891 (razed). Hill Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, measuring 4.8 miles (7.7 km) in length.It starts on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard near the campus of USC, and passes north through Downtown Los Angeles, past such landmarks as Pershing Square, the Subway Terminal Building, Angels Flight, [n 1] Fort Moore and Chinatown.
It was named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J. S. Slauson. It passes through Culver City, Ladera Heights, View Park-Windsor Hills, South Los Angeles, Huntington Park, Maywood, Commerce, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Whittier, and Santa Fe Springs. The street runs 20.9 miles (33.6 km) from McDonald Street in Culver ...
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. It is the principal route through the Cahuenga Pass, the primary shortcut between the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley.
The intersection of Beverly and La Cienega is the center of the studio zone (also known as the "thirty-mile zone"), the area that Los Angeles-based entertainment industry unions consider as "local" for purposes of work rules. [citation needed] Beverly Boulevard runs parallel to Melrose Avenue to the north and 3rd Street to the south. It passes ...
Streets change from west to east (for instance West 1st Street to East 1st Street) at Main Street. All of these streets run through Downtown Los Angeles. In addition, many of the streets also run through Westlake and Boyle Heights. 1st, 4th, 6th/Whittier, 7th, [1] and Olympic have crossings over the Los Angeles River; the others do not.
Foothill Boulevard starts off in Newhall Pass in the Sylmar district of the city of Los Angeles at Sierra Highway near the southern terminus of the Antelope Valley Freeway . Foothill Boulevard is a two-lane road through Newhall Pass, paralleling the Interstate 5 truck lanes until its intersection with Balboa Boulevard , where it becomes a four ...