echo park / highland park / eagle rock gentrification?

[Island_OnThe_Land]

Originally Posted by violet42

hello,

so I currently live on the westside, but I recently visited pasadena and thought it was really cute and am considering an eventual move to that side of town. I like that pasadena is also close to the cool bars/restaurants/scene in silverlake/los feliz.

i don't know that much about that part of town otherwise, but I have seen that echo park and eagle rock have started to become more gentrified/white/artsy, etc. from the people who know those neighborhoods, do you think this gentrification has the potential to potentially spill over into highland park? it seems like highland park is the one real festering sore of a neighborhood left in that general area - would be really nice to see it cleaned up a bit. are there any nice houses there or reasons for a white/artsy/up and coming population to move in there?

I am impressed that a westsider noticed the charms and merits of the eastside. Well, it really shouldn't be a surprise b/c these areas (Pasadena, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Echo Park) all offer much charm and character in the way the westside never will.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Island_OnThe_Land

I am impressed that a westsider noticed the charms and merits of the eastside. Well, it really shouldn't be a surprise b/c these areas (Pasadena, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Echo Park) all offer much charm and character in the way the westside never will.

Is Venice not part of the westside? It's got a lot in common with Silver Lake...

Although Los Feliz is the best neighborhood in L.A. if you can afford it. BTW you've been around L.A. long enough to know that none of the areas you mentioned are "eastside" unless you're engaged in racial/ethnic baiting (although others mentioned Highland Park which is genuinely eastside)....an easy way to spot a recent transplant is if they refer to those areas as "the eastside"

[CALGUY]

Just a short hop over the Pasadena freeway to the east is the small village of Hermon with it's tree lined streets, fantastic parks, and mostly single family homes.
Cycleway coffee shop on Monterey road is an a popular place that opened a few years ago.
Though I live less than a block from it, I have never been inside.
Gang activity is non-existant in this small village.
I have lived here many years, and wouldn't want to live any where else.
It is handy to everything, yet secluded from the rat race experienced in most of the city.
It is as different as day and night being west of the freeway in Highland park.
Don't get me wrong, I like Highland park.
I spend a lot of time shopping in the area.
I particularly like the old buildings on Figuroa., but I prefer living east of the freeway.
Bob.

[nickdahammer]

CALGUY reminded me of Hermon, which is a very nice area. Cycleway is quaint, alittle small but manages to stay in business somehow. I'm in Mt. Wash, so just a bikeride over the river for me. My sister-in-law nearly bought a house a few houses back from Cycleway- nice places to be found. The Hermon dogpark is popular- I take my dogs there, and we walk along the Arroyo. There are much worse areas to spend your time.

And to hear 'gentrify' and 'Eagle Rock' in the same sentence surprised me. I've been to ER hundreds of times and it looks pretty nice to me. If there were ever gritty areas in need of that sort of thing, I'd like to know where they are (down York, perhaps, or the little dead-end streets next to Pasadena...?). HP on the other hand, was always working-class. Take a look at some pics from the 1920s on up and little has changed down Fig. The store fronts were starting to look nicer years ago but the money ran out. I still go to Follieros, Antigua, Figueroa Produce, the panaderias (pretty amazing). But gentrification? Not so much, unless you count homeowners fixing up their turn-of-the-century homes.

[King0fthehill]

Originally Posted by majoun

Is Venice not part of the westside? It's got a lot in common with Silver Lake...

Although Los Feliz is the best neighborhood in L.A. if you can afford it. BTW you've been around L.A. long enough to know that none of the areas you mentioned are "eastside" unless you're engaged in racial/ethnic baiting (although others mentioned Highland Park which is genuinely eastside)....an easy way to spot a recent transplant is if they refer to those areas as "the eastside"

....ain't that the truth?

[wacky mike]

Hate to say this, but the more there are latins or blacks,usually poor ones the more the crime goes up, just a fact. I am all for diversity,but sometimes, people do not know how to act. I have seen North Hollywood become like Mexico. I am all for gentrification- we are all tired of gangs and crime.