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{{Short description|Urban area in California, United States}}
{{Confuse|East Los Angeles, California}}
{{Use American English|date = October 2020}}
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[[File:Map_of_the_Eastside_region_of_Los_Angeles_County,_California.jpg|thumb|right|Eastside Los Angeles<br /><small>''Los Angeles Times''</small>]]
'''The Eastside''' is an urban [[region]] in [[Los Angeles County, California]]. It includes the Los Angeles City neighborhoods east of the [[Los Angeles River]]—that is, [[Boyle Heights, Los Angeles|Boyle Heights]], [[El Sereno, Los Angeles|El Sereno]], and [[Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles|Lincoln Heights]]—as well as unincorporated [[East Los Angeles, California|East Los Angeles]].

==History==
[[File:Uscmedcenter.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center]], 2007]]
East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 by [[John Strother Griffin]] (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles".<ref name="MemorialSketch">{{Cite book |last=Barrows |first=H.D. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41167720 |title=Memorial Sketch of Dr. John S. Griffin |work=Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register |year=1898 |volume=4 |location=Los Angeles |issue=2|pages=183–185 |publisher=University of California Press, Historical Society of Southern California |doi=10.2307/41167720 |jstor=41167720 }}</ref> In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each.<ref name="StreetNames">{{Cite web |title=Street Name |url=http://www.eastlosangeles.net/streetnames.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530053051/http://www.eastlosangeles.net/streetnames.html |archive-date=2013-05-30 |access-date=2012-08-20 |website=EastLosAngeles.net}}</ref><ref name="FounderOfCities">{{Cite book |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/163923464 |title=Founder of Cities |date=1898-08-24 |work=Los Angeles Times |page=1|id={{ProQuest|163923464}} }}</ref> They planned the [[Lot and Block survey system|laying out of streets]] of the present community of East Los Angeles and gifted East Side Park (the present [[Lincoln Park (Los Angeles)|Lincoln Park]]) to the city of Los Angeles.<ref name=FounderOfCities/><ref>{{Cite book |url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=griffin-john-s-john-strother-1816-1898-cr.xml |title=Griffin, John S. (John Strother), 1816–1898 |work=Social Networks and Archival Context Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017075226/http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=griffin-john-s-john-strother-1816-1898-cr.xml |archive-date=October 17, 2013 }}</ref>

The [[Mapping L.A.]] project of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' defines the Eastside as comprising Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, and East Los Angeles.<ref name=EastsideRegion/>  However, the boundaries are a matter of perennial discussion and debate among the residents of Los Angeles.<ref name="story">{{Cite news |last=Esmerelda Bermudez |date=February 18, 2014 |title=East is East, but Eastside is open to debate |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-eastside-battle-20140218-dto,0,6508792.htmlstory |access-date=February 18, 2014}}</ref>

The Mapping L.A. definition corresponds to the traditional boundaries, but, beginning in the early 21st century, residents of some of the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods west of [[Downtown Los Angeles]] but on the eastern side of [[Central Los Angeles]], such as [[Echo Park, Los Angeles|Echo Park]] and [[Silver Lake, Los Angeles|Silver Lake]], began to refer to their neighborhoods as part of the Eastside.<ref name=story/>  This debate generated some friction, which, according to Ali Modarres, an expert on the geography of Los Angeles from the [[University of Washington Tacoma]], is to be expected because neighborhood names are "full of meaning, nuances, history, cultural and political relationships". [[Eric Garcetti]], former mayor of Los Angeles and a fourth generation resident, is a traditionalist, stating that "true east is east of downtown".<ref name=story/>
[[File:Eastside_Northeast_Los_Angeles,_1916_map_of_annexations.jpg|thumb|Map of annexations to Los Angeles: Occidental Addition, Arroyo Seco Addition, Garvanza Addition, Highland Park Addition, and Bairdstown Addition; locations of [[Rancho San Rafael]] and [[Rancho San Pascual]]]]
The trend led the [[Silver Lake Neighborhood Council]] to declare officially in February 2014 that Silver Lake is not part of the Eastside.<ref name="story" />

The [[Sixth Street Viaduct]], also known as the Sixth Street Bridge was demolished. Prior to the demolition, Los Angeles mayor [[Eric Garcetti]] recorded the [[Hip hop music|rap]] song "101SlowJam", backed by musicians from [[Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles)|Roosevelt High School]], and issued it via a video on his own [[YouTube]] channel. The [[public service announcement]] video advertised the closure of parts of the 101 Freeway to accommodate the demolition of the viaduct.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pedersen |first=Erik |date=January 28, 2016 |title=[WATCH&#93; 101 Freeway Closure: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Slow-Jams Reminder |url=https://deadline.com/2016/02/101-freeway-closure-los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-slow-jam-video-1201697381 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206135557/http://deadline.com/2016/02/101-freeway-closure-los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-slow-jam-video-1201697381/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 6, 2016 |access-date=February 6, 2016 |publisher=Deadline}}</ref><ref>{{youtube|a_3tTv4lPds|#101SlowJam}}</ref>

==Communities==
[[File:CSULAStudentUnionBLDG.jpg|thumb|[[California State University, Los Angeles]], Student Union and Luckman Auditorium, 2010]]
===City of Los Angeles===
The official East Area Planning Commission area of the City of Los Angeles is divided into the following communities:<ref>[https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=da2e20211f8c4c2ca94a6c49e0b5e091 Area Planning Commission (APC)], Boundaries for the seven (7) Area Planning Commissions as established by Ordinance No. 173,492. Feature Layer by GIS@LADCP. Created: Feb 28, 2018. Updated: Dec 31, 2019.</ref>
*[[Boyle Heights]]
*[[Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles|Lincoln Heights]]
*[[El Sereno, Los Angeles|El Sereno]]
*[[Northeast Los Angeles]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic Resources Survey Report |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/853c78a4-1dff-4abc-ab4d-2ba08e4c7dbd/SurveyLANortheastLosAngeles_SurveyReport_.pdf |website=Northeast Los Angeles Community Plan Area |publisher=lacity.org}}</ref>
**[[Atwater Village, Los Angeles|Atwater Village]]
**[[Cypress Park, Los Angeles|Cypress Park]]
**[[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles|Eagle Rock]]
**[[Garvanza, Los Angeles|Garvanza]]
**[[Glassell Park, Los Angeles|Glassell Park]]
**[[Hermon, Los Angeles|Hermon]]
**[[Highland Park, Los Angeles|Highland Park]]
**[[Montecito Heights, Los Angeles|Montecito Heights]]
**[[Mount Washington, Los Angeles|Mount Washington]]
**[[Rose Hills, Los Angeles|Rose Hills]]

===Mapping L.A.===
[[File:Francisco_Bravo_Medical_Magnet_High_School.jpg|thumb|right|220px|[[Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School]]]]
The [[Mapping L.A.]] project by the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' lists the following City of Los Angeles neighborhoods in its definition of the Eastside:<ref name=EastsideRegion/>
*[[Boyle Heights, Los Angeles|Boyle Heights]]<ref name="Los Angeles Times Neighborhood Project">{{Cite news |title=Los Angeles Times Neighborhood Project |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/boyle-heights |access-date=2010-04-11}}</ref>
*[[El Sereno, Los Angeles|El Sereno]]
*[[Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles|Lincoln Heights]]
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==Education==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! High Schools
|-Reporting Api
|[[Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School]]
|-
|[[Los Angeles County High School for the Arts]]
|-
|[[Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School]] 
|-
|[[Oscar De La Hoya#Personal life|Oscar De La Hoya Animo Charter High School]]
|-
|[[Garfield High School (Los Angeles County, California)|James A. Garfield High School]]
|-
|[[Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles, California)|Theodore Roosevelt High School]]
|-
|[[Abraham Lincoln High School (Los Angeles, California)|Abraham Lincoln High School]]
|-
|[[Wilson High School (Los Angeles, California)|Woodrow Wilson High School]]
|-
|[[Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School]]
|-
|[[Esteban Torres High School]]
|}

==Population and housing==
The following data applies to the boundaries of the Eastside established by Mapping L.A.:

In 2000, 286,222 people lived in the 20.66 square miles of the '''Eastside region''',  amounting to 13,852 people per square mile.
The neighborhood was "not especially diverse" ethnically, with a high percentage of Latinos. The ethnic breakdown was Latino, 91.2%; Asian, 5.2%, white, 2.3%; black, 0.7% and other, 0.6%.  Just 5.1% of residents aged 25 and older had a [[Bachelor's degree|four-year college degree]]. More than two-thirds (66.8%) of the inhabitants lived in shared housing, and 33.2% were homeowners.<ref name="EastsideRegion">{{Cite news |title=The Eastside |work=[[Mapping L.A.]] |publisher=Los Angeles Times |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/region/eastside}}</ref>

==Notable places==
[[File:Sears Roebuck Mail Order Building, Boyle Heights.JPG|thumb|[[Sears, Roebuck & Company Mail Order Building (Los Angeles, California)]]]]
*[[East Los Angeles, California#Latino Walk of Fame|Latino Walk of Fame]] - East Los Angeles
*[[Mariachi Plaza]] - Boyle Heights
*[[El Mercado de Los Angeles]] - Boyle Heights
*[[Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles|Calvary Cemetery]] ([[Roman Catholic]]) - East Los Angeles
*[[Home of Peace Cemetery (East Los Angeles)|Home of Peace Cemetery]] ([[Judaism|Jewish]]) - East Los Angeles
* [[Evergreen Cemetery (Los Angeles)|Evergreen Cemetery]] - Boyle Heights
*[[Estrada Courts|Estrada Courts Murals]] - Boyle Heights
*[[El Pino (The Pine Tree)]] - East Los Angeles

==Notable people==
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*[[will.i.am]] (William James Adams, Jr.), musician, producer, philanthropist<ref name="oprah1">{{Cite web |date=2009-04-14 |title=will.i.am's Aha! Moment |url=http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Black-Eyed-Peas-Singer-williams-Aha-Moment |website=Oprah.com |access-date=October 17, 2013 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214837/http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Black-Eyed-Peas-Singer-williams-Aha-Moment |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[Herb Alpert]],  trumpeter, producer
* [[Narciso Botello]] (about 1813–1889) Mexican Army officer, California State Assembly member<ref name="Herald">{{Cite news |date=1889-11-21 |title=Death of Narciso Botello |page=2 |work=Los Angeles Herald |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042460/1889-11-21/ed-1/seq-2}}</ref>
*[[Anthony Quinn]], actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anthony Quinn Public Library |url=http://www.colapublib.org/libs/quinn |website=Los Angeles County |access-date=October 17, 2013 |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223212157/http://www.colapublib.org/libs/quinn |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Howard E. Dorsey]], engineer, politician<ref name="LibraryFile">{{Cite web |title=Reference file |url=http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/04/290299.pdf |website=Los Angeles Public Library |quote=This file was compiled in 1937 by [[Works Progress Administration]] worker Clare Wallace from an interview with Dorsey on June 23 of that year and from newspaper articles.}}</ref>
*[[Jaime Escalante]], educator<ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-04-17 |title=Honoring a legendary teacher and his legacy |work=Los Angeles Herald |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-escalante17-2010apr17,0,7196329.story}}</ref>
*[[Kid Frost]], musician<ref name="allmusic">{{Cite web |last=Huey |first=Steve |year=2006 |title=Frost Biography |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p17735|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2008-12-18 |publisher=allmusic}}</ref>
* [[John Strother Griffin]] (1816–1898), surgeon, founder of East Los Angeles, member of Los Angeles Common Council<ref name="FounderOfCities" />
*[[Oscar De La Hoya]], boxer
*[[Edward James Olmos]], actor<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bethel |first=Kari Francisco |title=Edward James Olmos |work=Contemporary Hispanic Biography |publisher=Gale |year=2002 |isbn=0-7876-6538-X |editor-last=Henderson |editor-first=Ashyia N. |volume=1 |location=Detroit |page=156}}</ref>
* [[Dan Peña]], [[financial analyst]] on [[Wall Street]]
*[[Luis J. Rodriguez]], writer and activist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luis J. Rodriguez |url=https://www.luisjrodriguez.com}}</ref>
*[[Andy Russell (singer)|Andy Russell]], international recording artist
*[[Hope Sandoval]], singer-songwriter<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |title=The Official Website |url=http://www.hopesandoval.com/bio.shtml |publisher=Hope Sandoval}}</ref>
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Self-Help-Graphics.png|The [[Self-Help Graphics & Art]] building
File:CASA 0101.jpg|CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights<ref>{{Cite web|title=CASA 0101 Theater|url=http://www.casa0101.org}}</ref>
File:Mariachi Plaza Station LACMTA.jpg|[[L Line (Los Angeles Metro)|L Line]] [[Mariachi Plaza]] Station, 2009
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Los Angeles|Latino and Hispanic American|Greater Los Angeles|California}}
* ''[[My Family (1995 film)|My Family/Mi Familia]],'' Motion Picture of life in East Los Angeles
* ''[[Born in East L.A. (film)|Born in East L.A.]],'' motion picture
*   [[Chicano]], ethnic term
* [[East LA Classic]], football game
* ''[[Blood In Blood Out]],'' motion picture
* [[Los Angeles Times suburban sections#Minorities|''City Times'' in ''Los Angeles Times'' suburban sections]]
* [[Zoot Suit Riots]], 1943
* [[Template:10 Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles County|Ten Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles County]]

==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |last=Romo |first=Ricardo |title=East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio |publisher=[[University of Texas at Austin|University of Texas Press]] |year=1983 |isbn=0-292-72041-6 |location=[[Austin, Texas]]}}
* {{Cite web |title=Jewish American Heritage |url=https://www.laconservancy.org/jewish-american-heritage |access-date=2015-12-20 |website=The Los Angeles Conservancy}}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|East Los Angeles}}
* [https://www.theeastsiderla.com/ The Eastsider LA]
* {{wikivoyage-inline|Los Angeles/Eastside|East Los Angeles}}
* [http://www.elaguide.org East LA Guide]

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