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This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles [1] officially known as Central City East. [2]Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s. [3]
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, sometimes called the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, [25] were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County in April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using ...
It is a level of loss a Los Angeles community has not endured in recent memory — if ever — despite earthquakes, fires, floods and civil unrest. ... week's disaster among the worst ever in ...
Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer and CEO of the Los Angeles department of water and power, told reporters they saw “four times the normal demand” for 15 hours straight, which lowered the ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At least five people were killed and thousands of structures were burned as fierce wildfires raged in the Los Angeles area, officials said. Fast-moving flames blazed through homes and businesses as residents fled smoke-filled canyons and picturesque neighborhoods that are home to many celebrities.
Property consultant CoreLogic estimates that there are over 456,000 homes, with nearly $300 billion in reconstruction value, at moderate or greater risk within the Los Angeles and Riverside ...
The following is a list of California locations by crime rate based on FBI's Uniform Crime Reports from 2014.. In 2014, California reported 153,709 violent crimes (3.96 for every 1,000 people) and 947,192 property crimes (24.41 for every 1,000 people).