The burger includes lettuce, tomato and tagging.
Photo by Mr. Rollers 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
March 2009
Officers in the LAPD’s Northeast Division might have to start carrying another crime fighting tool: a paint brush. Division Capt. Bill Murphy said he’s looking into putting officers in charge of painting out graffiti in the wake of budget cuts and growing public anxiety in Highland Park and nearby neighborhoods over a perceived increased in graffiti and crime. Many Highland Park residents have reported seeing an increase in tagging and graffiti in recent months. That and the March 13 shooting deaths of two Highland Park teenagers have left many residents on edge.
“They freak out if they see graffiti all the time – they equate it with violence.” Murphy said.
While fear may have risen in Highland Park, crime has actually dropped. Violent crime, – such as murder, rape and aggravated assaults – through March 30 in Highland Park is down 16% compared to last year, according to LAPD figures. Property crimes are down 22%.
But it’s hard for residents to take comfort in those stats if they are barraged with anxiety-inducing graffiti. Murphy is not clear whether there is more graffiti or if it takes long
er to paint-out as city financed clean-up contractors face tight budgets and growing demand for service. The Northeast Division once had officers committed to supervising graffiti -paint out crews composed of people performing court-ordered community service. “We might have to get back into that,” Murphy said of paint-out duty. “We will make a decision in a couple of weeks.”
MaryAnn Hayashi of Central City Action Committee, which is under contract to paint out graffiti in most of Highland Park and other portions of the Eastside, welcomes the LAPD’s assistance. Her nonprofit, which in February painted out more than 4,600 instances of illegal graffiti on everything from stop signs to fences, absorbed a cut in funding this year without reducing service. But Central City has postponed buying new equipment and is awaiting to hear what funding will be like in the upcoming city budget.
“There is definitely an increase in graffiti,” said Hayashi. “Our response time maybe longer because we have more graffiti takes to remove.”
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Urban beekeepers swarm into Silver Lake. LA Times
Origami Vinyl opens Friday in Echo Park. Evil Monito
A place to finally show off your nebula art. Echo Curio
Atwater’s newest, unofficial skate park. AV Newbie
What’s the catch? An El Sereno home reduced to $100,800 (it’s only 415 square feet). Movoto (h/t to Bob-Taylor.com)
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Echo Park resident Ingrid Peterson was headed over to this month’s Fargo Street Hill Climb when she came across this school bus stuck at the top of the hill where steep Baxter Street crosses Alvarado Street. “Honestly I have no idea what possessed that driver to take it up Baxter in the first place.”
Photos by Ingrid Peterson via Flickr
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. “So you had to build that into our projections.” However, noted Crowell, “we didn’t anticipate it to go down as much as it did.”
In February, the remodeled Scott Avenue house, built on a lot that measures only about 2,000-square-feet, sold for $485,000. But that deal took several months and reductions from the original price of $529,000 to complete.
Now, after nearly 11 months of work, their project at 1878 Echo Park Avenue is available for sale at $789,000. Crowell and Temple would have preferred to have finished months ago and done more finish work on the large garage. Still, the home, clad in charcoal grey siding, has been thoroughly renovated with new plumbing and electrical systems as well as a loft-like interior. Can they make money on this house, purchased for about $535,000 last April, and other future flips?
“You can,” Crowell said. “But it’s going to be really tricky.”
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Echo Park flippers hold firm. The Eastsider
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Check before you go: Cesar Chavez Day is Tuesday but many City Hall offices will be closed today.
Mini bikes have Echo Park buzzing all weekend. Echo Elysian Forum
Have you been to the Eagle Rock Harpsichord Center? LA Weekly
Bird watching in Highland Park. 90042
Stories bookstore in Echo Park opens for morning coffee. Stories LA
Echo Park bears artist works for Shepard Fairey. Obey
Boyle Heights and East LA businesses eager for Gold Line to pay off. LA Times
What do you do when you catch your neighbor killing skunks? NelaList
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Police are looking for suspects who robbed a store on Sunset Boulevard this afternoon in Echo Park, according to an officer at the Northeast Division station. Residents told The Eastsider that robbers hit the Save-A-Lot market, located next to the Walgreens, at Sunset Boulevard and Logan Street.
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Nearly a century ago early automakers would drive their most recent models up and down the steep streets of Echo Park to draw publicity and prove that these new contraptions could survive the terrain. The modern-day equivalent of those early auto endurance demonstrations was held earlier this month: the Fargo Street Hill Climb. But this event involves bikes and brawn, not sputtering jalopies. About sixty riders signed up for this year’s hill climb, sponsored by the Los Angeles Wheelman club. But only 46 riders made it up Fargo between Allesandro Street on the bottom and Alvarado Street at the top.
It would seem that one time up the hill would be enough. But rider Doug Kubler rode the hill 30 times. He would have ridden 31 times but his chain broke.
Photo by etotherock via Flickr. More photos and a YouTube video:
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KPFK suspends “La Causa,” hosted by Echo Park’s Augustin Cebada, for six weeks. OC Weekly
Echo Park school board rep Yolie Flores got paid $32,000 to consult for a state committee that never held a meeting or issued a report. LA Times
Councilman Jose Huizar, who rode the bus to work on Monday, appointed to the MTA board on Thursday. LA Now
Too late for Silver Lake: Planning Commission votes to ban digital billboards in most parts of town. LA Now
Spend Saturday preparing for disaster in Silver Lake. SL Neighborhood Council
Candidates make their case to replace Hilda Solis in Congress. EGP News
Bach on! Classical music concert in Eagle Rock. SCOrchestra
Craving New York-style pizza? Then head to Folliero in Highland Park. NelaList
Don’t mind the shots your heard in Echo Park. EchoElysian Forum
Safer streets in Elysian Valley. CD 13
Bonnie “Prince” Billy sings and strolls down Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park (h/t to Kim Turner). YouTube
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Perhaps I went overboard writing about 1979′s Egg Dropping Competition, the highlight of Engineering Week, for Campus News, the student paper of East Los Angeles College. But, if you really want to, you can now read that entire story, and countless others, as well as view photos in a new online archive, reports Jean Stapleton, the paper’s longtime advisor.
The searchable archive covers more than 50 years and includes stories about the Chicano student movement, appearances by Angela Davis and the Black Panthers as well as countless stories headlined: “Dance Slated.” You can also view one of the paper’s first issues before what was then called East Los Angeles Junior College moved to its current location. The banner headline from the March 13, 1946 issue reads: “Shamrock Dance Held Friday.”
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