Photo by Mocodragon via flickr.
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Film crew turns the clock back on Angeleno Heights store
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LAPD Northeast Division’s newest crime fighting tools are Facebook, Twitter & YouTube
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Silver Lake tree is long on lemons
August 2008
A rental ad for “Amazing Sober Living in Hollywood and Echo Park” seems like a reasonable deal for a recovering drug addict or alcoholic: $100 a week. Then you read the Craigstlist ad further and discover that $100 buys you a bed in a room that you share with two other people.
Sober living homes like these have triggered neighborhood complaints and prompted Councilman Ed Reyes to call for greater city regulation of these residential rehab centers. But the economics of group homes, $1,200 a month from just one bedroom, might make it worth dealing with neighborhood nags. Says the woman who came across the ad:
“Hmmmm, maybe we should start offering our extra bedrooms for rent.”
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A young woman in shorts and sandals kicked two large, blue plastic bags filled with clothes as she walked downhill this morning from Fairbanks Place to Echo Park Avenue. After the bags tumbled to the corner at the bottom, and across the street from a minimall laundry, the woman dragged herself up the short but steep block where three other blue bags of laundry awaited kicking and cleaning.
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The gentrification of Echo Park and other sections of the Eastside finds many long time residents missing the days when chickens clucked and roosters crowed from the backyards and even the apartment courtyards of Latino residents. Well, it looks like chickens are making a comeback. But this time around they will be raised by the owners of a newly built Bauhaus-meets barnyard home set on a large double lot in Elysian Heights.
“The owners intend to create an urban farm, which will include chickens, goats and organic vegetables.”
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Eric Garcetti gets plenty of attention as President of the Los Angeles City Council. Now, his Elysian Heights home is also in the spotlight. The mid-century house that he expanded and remodeled with partner Amy Wakeland is the subject of a web photo spread on green architecture. It should come as no surprise that the home of our hybrid-driving councilman comes with many eco-friendly features, including a deck made out of “responsibly harvested wood” and solar panels atop the carport (to power that hybrid.)
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On recent early morning walks around Echo Park Lake, my friend Holly and I have noted the squares of gold, terra cotta and forest green paint that have spotted the exterior of the Cathedral Center of St. Paul across the street. We assumed the Episcopalian church was testing new colors to cover up the dingy white exterior and debated the merits of one color over the other. A darker shade, Holly argued, would help the giant structure and its Spanish-Colonial, strip mall architecture fade into the background.
This morning’s walk, however, revealed the church’s true color: purple. Not exactly a color that melts into the scenery. The Barney-the-dinosaur like shade (which we assume or at least hope will cover only part of the cathedral) left Holly speechless for a few seconds. After blinking her eyes and squinting through her glasses, Holly blurted out: “There is no god.”
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When the real estate market was in full boom, this two-bedroom, shoebox of a bungalow on Portia Street once boasted a price tag of more than $400,000 and a fire-engine red BMW sedan parked in the driveway. The shock of how much our new Echo Park neighbors were paying was usually followed by the question: “How could they afford that?” We never bothered to answer the question because we (homeowners, I mean) instinctively began re calculating our own property values: “Well, if that runty house sold for more than $400,000, then my house (bigger, further away from Dodger traffic, fewer abandoned sofas on my block) is $600,000 easy.”
Now the real estate boom is suddenly over. The same Band-Aid colored house is now empty and in foreclosure The BMW and its owner have not been seen around in a while. The bank’s asking price: $265,000 “Hardwood flooring! Gated! Light & Bright! Cute! Don’t miss!,” reads the listing. News of the stunning price cut now prompts the questions about the sanity of our former neighbors: “What were they thinking?”. But as for our property values, we are not asking any questions and would rather not hear the answers.
Photo from MLS CLAW
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The sheriff deputy slain outside his parents’ Cypress Park home was “well respected” by some of the high-risk inmates he guarded.
Councilman Ed Reyes seeks a new ordinance to govern sober-living homes following resident complaints.
Boyle Heights street vendors are robbed by a man impersonating a health inspector.
A virtual tour of Lincoln Heights courtesy of El Chavo and friends
The Room 8 Memorial Foundation, an Inland Empire cat rescue group named in honor of Elysian Height’s famed feline mascot, is under financial pressure amid a virus outbreak.
Boyle Heights is ranked one of the nation’s best ethnic neighborhoods…along with Solvang?
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Deputy Juan Abel Escalante was shot in the back and may not have seen his killer (LAT). “We will have justice,” Councilman Ed Reyes said at a prayer vigil in honor of the Cypress Park resident. (LA Weekly). A neighbor echos a common concern: “We’re just not safe.”
A message board discussion of Armenian markets and donkey oil……
The big selling point of this Eagle Rock summer camp is that it’s air conditioned.
Shia LaBeouf and the art of toilet seat.
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