The City Project Blog

Temescal Gateway Park Support Public Access for All; Oppose Private Palisades Lease Special Hearing July 7, 2008 7:30 pm

Robert Garcia — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:00:38 +0000

A diverse and growing alliance urge the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to support public access for all to the Temescal Gateway Park. Temescal Gateway Park is a crown jewel in the precious little parklands of the Los Angeles region. Temescal Gateway Park was purchased and is maintained with public funds by a public agency to benefit [...]

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 71 First AME Church

Meagan Yellott — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:00:29 +0000

The First African Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1872. In 1903 construction was completed on a Gothic-style structure based on a design by English architect Sir Christopher Wren. The building was destroyed by fire in 1976. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 289 Firestation 30 first all-Black firestation in Los Angeles

Meagan Yellott — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:00:39 +0000

Built in 1942, this was the City’s first fire station to be staffed exclusively by African-Americans. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

Diabetes: Underrated, Insidious and Deadly — New York Times

Robert Garcia — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:40:06 +0000

By TARA PARKER-POPE Published: July 1, 2008 New York Times [D]iabetes is anything but minor. It wreaks havoc on the entire body, affecting everything from hearing and vision to sexual function, mental health and sleep. It is the leading cause of blindness, amputations and kidney failure, and it can triple the risk [...]

KNX 1070 News Radio Clean and Green Baldwin Hills

Robert Garcia — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:03:16 +0000

KNX 1070 News Radio’s Michael Lindner conducts exclusive interviews on the Baldwin Hills oil field with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and others. Listen to the KNX broadcast. Learn more at www.greaterbaldwinhillsalliance.org and www.baldwinhillsoil.org.

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 651 Filipino Christian Church

Meagan Yellott — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:00:22 +0000

A Gothic Revival church erected in 1895. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

Miguel Contreras School Pool a Squandered Opportunity Downtown News Editorial

Robert Garcia — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:15:42 +0000

Editorial Downtown News June 30, 2008 Contreras School Pool a Squandered Opportunity Stakeholders in City West and adjacent communities received dispiriting news last week, when city and Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced that the swimming pool at the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex once again will be off-limits to the general public this year. This is [...]

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 578 Emanuel Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church

Meagan Yellott — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:00:26 +0000

Built in 1937, the church was designed by Edith Northmann, who was perhaps the most prolific and respected female architect based in Los Angeles from the 1920’s through the 1940’s. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.

Heritage Parkscape L.A. Times With generations carrying on tradition, Chinatown celebrates 70th anniversary

Robert Garcia — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:11:30 +0000

As "New Chinatown" marks its 70th anniversary today, those celebrating will include the so-called grandchildren -- the second- and third-generation Chinese American professionals like Ron Louie who no longer live in Chinatown but keep a finger there nonetheless. ... Organizers will show historic photographs, a swing band will perform and one of Central Plaza's more recent tenants will unveil newly installed neon lights along the roof lines of his three buildings -- an ornament that long distinguished Central Plaza until the lights fell into disrepair in the 1980s.

Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy: 112 Fern Dell Tongva Gabrielen?o Site Griffith Park

Meagan Yellott — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:20 +0000

Archeological surveys discovered sites of villages of the Tongva/Gabrieleños at the mouth of Fern Dell Canyon, leaving little doubt that fairly large settlements existed in this area and others. Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.