Mid City, Los Angeles

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Mid City
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
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Mid City neighborhood sign
located at the intersection of La Brea Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway
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Mid City
Location within Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°02′45″N118°20′43″W / 34.0459°N 118.3453°W / 34.0459; -118.3453
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Time zone Pacific
Zip Code
90016 & 90019
Area code 323

Mid City (also Mid-City) is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.

Contents

Attractions include restaurants and a post office named for singer Ray Charles, who had his recording studio in Mid City. The neighborhood hosts eleven public and private schools. A northern extension of the K Line from north-south is proposed to serve this area.

Geography

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Mid-City Neighborhood planter decoration at Burnside Avenue crossing of Ballona Creek, Los Angeles, California

City of Los Angeles boundaries

The City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation has posted Mid City signage [1] to mark the area. City installed signs are at the following intersections (from east to west): Hoover Street and Washington Boulevard, Vermont Avenue and Pico Boulevard, Western Avenue and Pico Boulevard, Normandie Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway, and La Brea Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway.

Google Maps

Google Maps outlines an area labeled "Mid City" that roughly runs from Hoover Street on the east to La Cienega Boulevard and Robertson Boulevard on the west. The north is roughly bordered by Olympic Boulevard, and the Santa Monica Freeway is on the south. [2] [lower-alpha 1]

Mapping L.A. boundaries

The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times states as follows:

Mid City is bounded on the north by Pico Boulevard, on the east by Crenshaw Boulevard, on the south by the Santa Monica Freeway, on the southwest by Washington and National boulevards, on the west by Robertson Boulevard and on the northwest by Cadillac Avenue and La Cienega Boulevard. [3] [4] [5] [6]

It is flanked by Carthay and Mid-Wilshire to the north, Arlington Heights to the east, Culver City and West Adams to the south, Palms to the southwest, Beverlywood to the west and Pico-Robertson to the northwest.

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Map of Mid City as delineated by the Los Angeles Times

Ballona Creek

Three bridges in Mid-City cross over Ballona Creek, at Hauser Blvd., Burnside Ave. and Thurman Ave.

Population

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The Holmes-Shannon House in Victoria Park was built in 1911.
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Apartment building at San Vicente and Pico boulevards

The 2000 U.S. census counted 52,197 residents in the 3.47-square-mile neighborhood—an average of 15,051 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in Los Angeles County. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 55,016. The median age for residents was 31, about average for both the city and the county. [5]

Mid City was said to be "highly diverse" when compared to the city at large, with a diversity index of 0.637. The ethnic breakdown in 2000 was: Latinos, 45.2%; blacks, 38.3%; whites, 9.5%; Asians, 3.9%; and others, 3.1%. Mexico (46) and El Salvador (15.6%) were the most common places of birth for the 35.1% of the residents who were born abroad, a figure that was considered average for the city and county. [5]

The median household income in 2008 dollars was $43,711, considered average for the city. The percentage of households earning $20,000 or less was high, compared to the county at large. The average household size of 2.8 people was just about average for Los Angeles. Renters occupied 68.9% of the housing units, and home- or apartment owners the rest. [5]

The percentages of never-married men (43.2%) and never-married women (35%) were among the county's highest. The census found 2,748 families headed by single parents, the 23.4% rate being considered high for both the city and the county. [5]

Enclaves

Smaller neighborhoods within Mid City include:

Transportation

Crenshaw Corridor and regional setting. Dashed lines represent possible extensions or alignments. Click to enlarge. WestsideMetro.svg
Crenshaw Corridor and regional setting. Dashed lines represent possible extensions or alignments. Click to enlarge.

Electric railways (-1960s)

Mid City was a key junction and terminus in the days of the electric railways from the early 1900s through the end of service in 1963.

The Rimpau Loop in Mid City was an important terminus of the Los Angeles Railway ("Yellow Cars") streetcars. The Pico Blvd. city streetcar line "P" turned around here in the Rimpau Loop. [8] From here, Santa Monica city buses ran to Downtown Santa Monica, and to this day, Pico and Rimpau is the terminus for several Santa Monica Transit lines. [9]

Vineyard Junction in Mid City was where Pacific Electric "Red Car" lines converged. The lines ran from Downtown Los Angeles south to Venice Boulevard, then West along Venice to Vineyard Junction. From here they went along Venice Blvd. to Venice and Redondo Beach; while others went along San Vicente Blvd. northwest toward what is now West Hollywood as well as via Beverly Hills to Santa Monica. It was the site of an accident on July 13, 1913, in which two wooden streetcars crashed into each other, with 14 people dead and 200 people injured. As a result, the Pacific Electric ordered its future cars to be made of steel, and it was recommended that signaling be introduced on the PE's lines. [10]

Today

As part of their long-range plans, the Los Angeles County MTA has proposed an extension of the K Line, which would place a rail transit station in Mid City. The proposed rail stop is at the intersection of Pico and San Vicente Boulevards—site of the old Vineyard Junction.

The old Vineyard Junction site is now occupied by the end terminal for the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus.

The K Line would allow Mid City residents to easy access to the city's east/west rail lines: the D Line along Wilshire Boulevard, the E Line from East and Downtown Los Angeles to Downtown Santa Monica, and the C Line from Norwalk to Redondo Beach and soon near LAX.

Currently, the Mid City alignment is unfunded and part of the K Line's proposed northern extension.

DASH Midtown serves the Mid City area.

Landmarks and attractions

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Holy Spirit Catholic Church.

Parks and recreation

Education

Mid City residents aged 25 and older holding a four-year degree amounted to 16.8% of the population in 2000, about average for both the city and the county. [5]

These are the elementary or secondary schools within the neighborhood's boundaries: [5]

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Alexander Hamilton High School

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) operates public schools:

Community Magnet School, an arts and humanities magnet primary school, was located in Mid City since its founding in 1977, [18] [19] for a period of around 25 years. It had been located in an area within the Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies campus. [18] By October 2002, Community Magnet had moved to its new location in Bel-Air. [20]

Previously the community was home to the Open Magnet Charter School, which was located on the campus of the Crescent Heights School. The Open school later moved to Westchester. [18] Current charter school includes Stella Middle Charter Academy

Notable residents

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Notes

  1. ↑ Where other reliable sources are available for the boundaries of neighborhoods, they should be treated preferentially to Google Maps and Google Street View. It is difficult if not impossible to verify as they are subject to change and documentation and archives are not available.
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