What Is Martin Luther King Drive In Your City Like?

[Taiko]

Originally Posted by hgclyde

Martin Luther King Jr Blvd formerly Santa Barbara Ave in LA is a mix of residential and commercial with some rough patches throughout; But the nicest parts are west of Western Ave and where King meets Crenshaw Blvd in the Crenshaw District and Hyde Park. Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Plaza at the intersection ML King and Crenshaw Boulevards serving the area with Macy's, Sears, Wal- Mart and Magic Johnson theaters complex anchor the mall.

Exposition Park is has many of city's landmarks and cultural centers for example: The Memorial Coliseum, The California Science Center, Museum of Natural History, California African American Museum; California Science Center Air and Space Gallery, IMAX theater and The LA Sports Arena. USC is Just north of the park.

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I would add that it begins at Central Avenue, the historic 1920's center of black Los Angeles and will soon terminate at Jackie Robinson Stadium as it merges into a soon renamed Barack Obama Blvd

[KerrTown]

Houston's MLK Blvd was formerly South Park Boulevard, the main street of the South Park post-war master-planned community. It starts just outside the main University of Houston campus and ends in a rapidly-urbanizing, inner-Beltway rural South Houston.

Here's the Wikipedia article about the South Park neighborhood:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park,_Houston

[Kar54]

We have an MLK Bypass (US 24) that runs about 4.5 miles, from I-25 to Circle.

[Katzpur]

In Salt Lake City, it's the main entrance to the downtown area from the I-80 freeway. Most here still refer to it as 600 South, though.

[585WNY]

There is no MLK street in Rochester, NY (the closest is a small side street in nearby Geneva) but we do have a Martin Luther King Jr. Park in a nice part of downtown that features ice skating and a water fountain.