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Most of the Spanish Colonial-style homes and storybook cottages that line the streets of Atwater Village were built in the 1920s and 1930. Those homes are relative newbies compared to this newly listed three-bedroom home in the 4000 block of Baywood Street. The farmhouse-like structure was built in 1890, according to the listing and city records. It’s not clear if the house was built somewhere else and later moved on to the block but its location north of Chevy Chase Drive puts it one of the earliest parts of the neighborhood to be developed, according to an Atwater history posted by the Friends of Awater Village. In fact, at the time the house 122-year-old house was built, there really was no community known as Atwater – the area near the river was called Riverdale – and Baywood Street was known and Eucalyptus Street.
How much to own a piece of pre-20th Century Atwater/Riverdale? Asking price is $454,000, according to Redfin.
Toasted Lemon Chiffon Cake/Valentina Silva
By Valentina Silva
I’ve heard great things about Proof Bakery but never the pleasure, so when a friend suggested lunch there, I said “Oooh! Sure.” I don’t get to see Atwater Village on weekdays or by sunlight too often, but since I started working from home (no more east-to-west commute!), I’ve been trying to squeeze in local lunch spots.
Proof Bakery doesn’t bowl you over on first sight. The small, unassuming space is all clean lines, modern airiness and marble tables. The dessert case/counter doesn’t have Marie Antoinette-esque decadence of many bakeries these days, so there aren’t the stacks and piles of cakes and cobblers of, say, Huckleberry in Santa Monica. That said, the restrained set of offerings does hit the right sweet and savory notes—think chocolate chip cookies, cheese and chive biscuits, croissants, tarts and morning buns.
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Two more candidates – a real estate agent and community activist from Atwater Village and an attorney and activist from Echo Park – have filed paperwork indicating their intention to run in the Council District 13 election in 2013. Rueben Martinez of Atwater and Josh Post of Echo Park are now among the four candidates seeking to replace Councilman Eric Garcetti, the Silver lake resident whose is termed out of office and is now running for mayor. The two other candidates for Council District 13 – which includes Echo Park and Silver Lake as well as Atwater Village and Glassell Park – are Silver Lake activist Scott Crawford and Mitch O’Farrell, a Glassell Park resident and senior adviser to Councilman Garcetti.
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Police are asking for the public’s help as they try to sort out a pair of Saturday night shootings in Atwater Village – including one at a party thrown by high school-age students – that left three men injured. All three victims – believed to be gang members – survived the shootings but police are looking for more information to help identify potential suspects, said a police officer involved with the investigation. The shootings – on the 4100 block of Chevy Chase Drive and the 3300 block of La Clede Avenue – both took place at about the same time but it’s still not clear if they were related. “We don’t know the circumstances,” said the officer.
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Two victims were hit by gunfire in Atwater Village Saturday night during a pair of separate shootings that appear to be gang related, police said. One of the victims was injured on La Clede Avenue and a second at a different location, said Sgt. Lisa Phillips with the Northeast Division. It’s not clear whether the shootings were related but the victims, who survived the shootings, are believed to be gang members, she said. Residents reported hearing multiple shots before midnight on La Clede between Silver Lake Boulevard and Tyburn Street near the site of a loud party. Said one resident via email:
We heard 5-7 gunshots, and a car speed away. I immediately called 911. There was chaos from the party. Lots of screaming and people scattering.
* Uodate: ABC7 is reporting that three people were injured during the two shootings. The second shooting took place in the 4100 block of Chevy Chase Drive in the north end of Atwater.
Earlier this year Andy Hasroun leased the storefront next to his Atwater Village wine shop with plans to transform the former H&R Block office into the Atwater Tap House, a gastropub serving craft beers and sausages. Hasroun envisioned that his new customers would be sipping beers and munching on sausages in time for the holiday season. Instead, the space next to his 55 Degrees wine and beer shop remains unfinished as Hasroun estimates the delay is costing him $10,000 a month in rent and lost business. What’s the hold up? Hasroun was counting on a new city parking credit program to provide him the necessary parking. That parking credit program, however, has been tied up in the City Attorney’s Office despite the fact that it was approved by the City Council in February. Without those credits, the beer can’t flow the Atwater Tap House.
The parking credits were “the reason I planned to open a business in this area,” said Hasroun. “I should have been open in November if everything went smoothly. This is disgusting.”
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An Atwater Village man who feared his pit bull was going to be taken away is in custody tonight after he threatened a utility worker with an assault rifle, prompting the evacuation of neighbors during an approximately three-hour-long stand off with police.
The incident began at about noon when a pit bull owner on Casitas Avenue near Fletcher Drive apparently mistook a gas company employee for an animal control service officer intent on taking away the dog, said Lt. Mike Menza with the Northeast Division. That’s when the pit bull owner threatened the utility worker with an AK-47 rifle.
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Atwater Village
Update: Atwater man holds police at bay in standoff over pit bull
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
An LAPD SWAT team was called out this afternoon to an Atwater Village home after a DWP employee who was going to cut off power to the residence was confronted by a man with what looked like a rifle, according to an officer with the Northeast Division. Police had the suspect contained in the home located near La Clede Avenue and Fletcher Drive. The officer said he had no further details about the incident, which prompted police to block off La Clede north of Fletcher at about 12 p.m., according to one resident.
*Update: Atwater man holds police at bay in standoff over pit bull. The Eastsider
In a neighborhood of mostly modest one-story homes, the red-tiled Atwater Village residence of Luis Carrillo Torres had stood out not only for its large size and imposing front gate but for the numerous cars and trucks that spilled out of the driveway, often blocking the parkway and amassed in front of the Revere Avenue house. Early Tuesday morning, FBI agents counted more than 20 vehicles – including a Range Rover, Porsche Carrera and 1965 Ford Thunderbird convertible – after they raided the Revere Avenue house and another Torres house around the corner on Seneca Avenue. Inside the two-story Revere house, agents found $60,000 in cash, 60 luxury watches, including Rolex and Cartier brands, and an unloaded Smith & Wesson handgun.
Torres and two other men in different locations were arrested for allegedly being involved in the sale and shipment of cocaine from Mexico to Canada via Southern California using semi trucks, according to an affidavit released by the FBI and filed with a criminal complaint today. No cocaine was found at Torres houses, but federal agents and other law enforcement officers have found duffel bags full of cocaine and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash at other locations across the nation as part of the same investigation.
Torres denied any knowledge of drug trafficking, saying he bought and sold cars for a living. But the affidavit notes that his estimated income from buying and selling cars could have never paid for the Revere Avenue house -which had recently been expanded with a second floor and surrounded by a six-foot high concrete block wall that also enclosed a new backyard swimming pool – or the 60 luxury watches.
Click on the link below to view the list of Torres’ vehicles found at his two Atwater houses.
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Atwater Village
Update: Arrests made in connection with narcotics investigation.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Many Atwater Village residents awoke early this morning to the sound of explosions and the sight of heavily-armed FBI agents on the streets as the agency served search warrants at two locations during pre-dawn raids. The raids took place on Revere Street and Seneca Avenue, according to Lt. Steven Flores with the LAPD Northeast Division, which was not involved in the FBI operation. A resident who lives near the house that was raided in the 3800 block of Revere Street at about 5:30 a.m. describes what happened:
Stun grenades woke my house mates and me up, we ran outside to see what was going on and the streets were blocked off by unmarked FBI SUV’s. Three hummers and a couple vans were in front of the house they were raiding. The FBI agents were wearing full riot gear and were carrying M-16′s.
When I drove by the house on my way to work about an hour later most of the FBI was gone, but a few field agents were still there, looked like they were writing reports. The windows had been blown out of the house on the upstairs balcony and the huge gate that blocks their driveway had been removed.
*Update: An FBI spokeswoman said arrests were made in connection with an investigation involving allegations of narcotics sales and distribution. She did not have many details but said the agents delivered state warrants at multiple locations. The explosions residents heard were flash-bang grenades used to stun or distract suspects. FBI agents were still present this afternoon at a large, two-story house on Revere Street and had Seneca Avenue blocked off.
Related Post:
- The cocaine, cars & Cartiers behind the FBI Atwater raid. The Eastsider
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