so after receiving several months' worth of feedback from its readers, the la times completed its mapping of the city's neighborhoods this past spring.
one neighborhood which i've been wondering about is east hollywood. the la times' final boundaries for the area are hollywood blvd on the north, hoover st on the east, beverly blvd on the south, and western ave on the west:
East Hollywood - Mapping L.A. - Los Angeles Times
the northern, eastern, and northwestern boundaries are exactly what i thought they would be. but i'd always been told that the southern/southwestern boundary is the 101 freeway - which would place the entire neighborhood above the 101 and would mean that the area east of western, north of beverly, and south of the 101 contains the koreatown/hollywood border.
then i looked at the website of the east hollywood neighborhood council, which defines EH as being situated entirely above the 101. this coincides with what i'd heard and contradicts the la times' final conclusions:
East Hollywood Neighborhood Council (scroll down to see map)
i realize that the la times derived its neighborhood boundaries from reader feedback as well as independent research, but it seems odd that EH's own neighborhood council would have such a different opinion of its southern/southwestern boundary.
and i know wikipedia isn't always correct, but whoever wrote the entry for east hollywood also seems to think that the entire neighborhood lies above the 101:
East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
furthermore, the wiki entry for melrose hill describes that enclave - which lies immediately south/southwest of the 101 and northeast of the intersection of melrose and western - as a subsection of hollywood, not east hollywood:
Melrose Hill, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and the la times' 2004 article about melrose hill describes it as being in southeast hollywood (
It's barely on the map, and that's fine - Los Angeles Times), which contradicts the newspaper's 2009 map in which melrose hill is a subsection of east hollywood.
for those who are familiar with this area, is the la times' map correct? if not, where would you draw the southern boundary of east hollywood?
and if the 101 is the actual border, then where does hollywood end and k-town begin? it seems like the area south of melrose, north of beverly, east of western, and west of the 101 is kind of a disputed territory between the two neighborhoods.