Echo Park

Echo Park - The city’s Cultural Heritage Commission agreed Thursday to consider a hillside "Hopi Village” near Elysian Park as a possible Historic-Cultural Monument.

Echo Park -- A man died this morning after being thrown off an overpass during a fight, police said.

Echo Park - A small, new Target store with a Starbucks is coming to Temple Street.

Echo Park - The outside walls of the Atwater Bungalows are earth-colored, like adobe. The corners and wall intersections are rounded, as if they were created by packing mud. Wood beams poke out from the edge of the roof area. Windows are recessed, and the doors are often battened.

Echo Park - A homeless man was pronounced dead at the Echo Park Community Center, a recreation facility, on Patton Street Monday morning.

Echo Park - Barlow Respiratory Hospital next to Elysian Park has been getting rebuilt from the inside - a process that has now raised a call for bonds totaling as high as $50 million.

Echo Park - A dead body was found in Echo Park Lake this morning, as a controversial evangelical Christian group staged a rally nearby.

Echo Park - Barlow Hospital next to Elysian Park began vaccinating its frontline healthcare workers on Monday with the first of two COVID-19 shots, the hospital announced.

Echo Park - A car rear-ended the trailer of a street pizza vendor Saturday night, causing a chain reaction with another vehicle and knocking a pedestrian across the sidewalk, police said. Two people were severely injured.

Echo Park -- A crash involving two vehicles this morning in the 1200 block of Sunset Boulevard took down a power pole and apparently knocked out electrical service, according an Eastsider reader.

Police have released video of a pair of armed robbery suspects who held up two stores in one day, early this month - one store in Echo Park, and one in Historic Filipinotown. Both incidents were caught on surveillance video.

We posed the question to Aaron Ballard, owner of Ballard’s Artwork Framing and Gallery.

Echo Park - The Taix Restaurant has been recommended to become a Historic-Cultural Monument - but based only on its cultural significance in the community, not based on its architecture.

Echo Park - Make way soon - perhaps - for a bus lane along Alvarado Street.

Echo Park - All lanes are open again along the First Street Bridge, on schedule.

Echo Park - Three recent assaults with a deadly weapon - on the same corner, within a few days of each other - were all related to homeless persons or transients, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The victims apparently included a man who showed up later on Instagram with a bullet wound in his leg.

Echo Park - The chair of the Echo Park Neighborhood Council, Darcy Harris, has quit the board. It's the seventh resignation from the board since last July, and the third resignation that traces back to an incident last June involving a lawn gnome in a noose.

Echo Park - Resident-permit parking zones are being requested for the south end of the neighborhood where several large new residential projects have been constructed in recent years and more are on the way in an area.

Echo Park - A 29-year-old motorcyclist was killed today in a collision with a hit-and-run driver along Glendale Boulevard.

Echo Park -- Police are conducting an investigation of a death tonight in Elysian Park.

Echo Park -- As many as 100 protestors opposed to Stay-at-Home orders staged a noisy demonstration this afternoon outside the home of LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. 

Echo Park -- A power outage has knocked out service to more than 2,200 LADWP customers this afternoon.