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    Eastside Property: A perfect Glassell Park home for musicians with money

    While many musicians toil at home in hot and stuffy garages that double as recording studios, at least one lucky musician, or group, currently practice in a sleek, industrial-style Glassell Park home-studio that is now up for sale.  The residence, re-designed by Silver Lake architect Tony Unruh,  at the corner of Fletcher Drive at the [...]

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    Verizon clips the wings of proposed Glassell Park angel

    The Eastsider reported last month that members of the Glassell Park Neighborhood  Council had recommended that Verizon wireless take a more creative approach to a proposed 70-foot high cell phone tower instead of disguising it as a fake pine tree.  How about topping the pole off with a symbolic angel or turning it into a gateway [...]

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    Will Glassell Park develop a taste for Jamie Oliver’s Revolution Burger?

    By Valentina Silva I remember when international healthy food crusader Jamie Oliver introduced his Revolution Burger at Patra’s Charbroiled Burgers in Glassell Park earlier this year. Its grass-fed beef and wheat bun caused a bit of a brouhaha in the food world, angering some people in a “where-does-this-Brit-get-off-telling-us-Americans-how-to-eat-a-burger” kind of way. Just check out the [...]

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    Neighborhood Fixture: What do silk stockings, Catholic school and frogs have in common?

    By Becky Koppenhaver You’ve driven past it a thousand times. It’s hard to miss the five-story, white and green concrete building near the Glendale Freeway and San Fernando Road that stands tall among the modest homes and businesses of Glassell Park. Since 1992, the building has been home to Ribet Academy, a pre kindergarten-12th grade [...]

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    Lost: Glassell Park cat named Bear

    Submitted by Michelle: Bear the cat has been missing since 9/22. He’s a smoky brown color with white undercoat, has green eyes and is wearing an orange collar with black name tag. He is also microchipped. Bear is approximately 13 pounds and has a very distinctive meow. He is also missing the tip of his [...]

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    Will a fake tree or angel welcome you to Glassell Park?

    Verizon Wireless wants to build a 70-foot high  monopine – cell phone  tower disguised like a pine tree – alongside the northbound 2 Freeway near the San Fernando Road exit in Glassell Park.  But some members of the neighborhood council are tired of seeing monopines, in addition to monopalms and monoeucalyptus, sprout across the landscape.  “I [...]

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    Glassell Park McDonald’s gets a Starbucks-style makeover

    Imagine if Ronald McDonald developed a taste for lattes and started reading Dwell magazine for home improvement ideas.  The result might mirror the newly remodeled and expanded Glassell Park McDonald’s at the corner of San Fernando Road and Fletcher Drive.  A muted color scheme – browns, almonds, tans – has replaced yellow and red. The  [...]

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    Storefront Report: Downtown bike apparel maker rides into Glassell Park

    With the exception of the Verdugo Bar, the 3400 block of Verdugo Road in Glassell Park is not what you would call  a dining or shopping destination, with most of the block devoted to auto repair shops and industrial buildings.  But in one of those faceless commercial buildings, a former Terminex call center,  has become [...]

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    Who needs a Trader Joe’s? Indy supermarkets fill empty stores and parking lots across Northeast L.A. *

    A KPCC series on a potential Southern California supermarket strike includes a segment on the independent markets that have filled a void left by the major chains and now pose a competitive threat.  The KPCC in a story and slide show visits four of those stores in Northeast L.A.:  Super King and Super A Foods [...]

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    City Council approves new Northeast police station

    The City Council today approved spending nearly$30 million to rebuild the LAPD Northeast Division station in Glassell Park. The existing 41,000-square-foot building on San Fernando Road is considered too small and antiquated. A few years back, station employees complained about “unpleasant odors” in the building that once served as a photo processing center. The Northeast [...]

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    City planners focus on river-side design

    Earlier this year the Community Redevelopment Agency halted work on a proposed Northeast Los Angeles River redevelopment zone that would stretch from Atwater Village and Glassell Park to Cypress Park and Elysian Valley. While that fate of that far-reaching redevelopment project remains up in the air, the city’s  Planning Department has continued to refine a [...]

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    Northeast police station may get a multimillion dollar makeover

    The officers at the crowded LAPD Northeast Division station in Glassell Park have watched as their peers in the adjacent Rampart and Hollenbeck divisions have moved into spacious and modern quarters. While visitors enter the Hollenbeck station in Boyle Heights through a hotel-like lobby framed in glass and steel,  the entrance to the Northeast station [...]

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    Investors put planned Glassell Park townhouses up for sale *

    The investment group that had planned to break ground on 52 Glassell Park townhouses later this year has decided sell instead of build.  Wedged between Eagle Rock Boulevard and the 2 Freeway, the site of Glassell Park Townhouses been listed for sale “as is” through the brokerage firm Land Advisors.  Taag Investment Management Co. had [...]

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    Would a pink pellet gun have avoided a Glassell Park tragedy?

    On a Thursday evening last December, a 13-year-old boy and two other friends were playing with pellet guns near the 3000 block of Verdugo Road in Glassell Park when an LAPD squad car stopped nearby. The 13-year-old, who was hiding behind a van on the dark street, was ordered to surrender. Instead, he flashed his [...]

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    Will Glassell Park developer turn a pit into a goldmine?

    It’s been more than two years now that construction came to a halt on a 114-unit condominium project in Glassell Park, leaving a giant pit filled with weeds, water and rusting steel columns.  But, in a few months, this hole wedged between Eagle Rock Boulevard and the 2 Freeway near the Verdugo Road exit will [...]

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    L.A. Unified chief reveals his choices to operate new Eastside schools

    L.A. Unified Supt. Ramon Cortines recommended a team of district administrators over a charter school operator to manage a new $68.7 million campus now nearing completion in Echo Park.  In addition to the Echo Park school, Cortines also made public his picks to run portions of a new Glassell Park high school and a new [...]

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