Police squad cars and a helicopter responded to reports of shots fired in the northern part of Echo Park and Elysian Heights tonight but found no evidence of a shooting, according to an officer with the Northeast Division. A few Echo Park residents with Twitter accounts ... Read More »
News & items from other parts of the blog. Reports of shots fired in Echo Park-Elysian Heights. Eastside 911 Is a $215,000 one-bedroom affordable hipster housing? Home & History Read More »
Councilman José Huizar and residents will gather this evening at Huntington Drive and Maycrest Avenue for the dedication of a a new El Sereno gateway monument sign near the city boundary with Alhambra. The marker is part of $700,000 worth of civic improvements along Huntington Drive. What ... Read More »
How much house can an Echo Park hipster afford? How about $215,000? That’s the price of the one-bedroom unit pictured above that is part of a cluster of homes being sold separately or part of a package on a lot at Preston Avenue and Ewing Street. ... Read More »
The Echo Park Film Center Filmmobile will screen Mi Vida Loca, the Allison Anders film about “girls, gangs … and guns” in Echo Park tonight (remember those high-rise chola pompadours?). The free screening will take place near Echo Park and Delta avenues, one of the neighborhood ... Read More »
Some Echo Park residents were let down earlier this year when the shuttered Pioneer Chicken – the first outlet of a once fast growing restaurant chain – was transformed into a Little Caesars Pizza. Now, just beyond the western fringe of Silver Lake, another former Pioneer ... Read More »
EGP News reports that a small but determined group of Boyle Heights residents have shut down a popular weekly rave party in a Clarence Street warehouse that flooded the neighborhood with noise and scantily-clad party goers. One woman told EGP: “They don’t dress like this where ... Read More »
The Thursday night meeting of the Echo Park Improvement Assn. began with some residents praising the LAPD for sweeping out swap meet vendors from Echo Park Lake, with peddlers being warned and ticketed for soliciting on public property. But there was at least one person who ... Read More »
Elysian Park | Photo by Eric Richardson/Flickr Man dies from apparent heart attack at Dodger Stadium. LAist Ground breaking ceremony set for Elysian Park expansion. Echo Park Now Gays to protest at Eagle Rock Target store today. Uptown Gay & Lesbian Alliance Weezer joins Silver Lake’s ... Read More »