El Mercardo del Pueblo, or the neighborhood market, opened Saturday after months of work securing a path for street vendors to vend legally. East Los Angeles Community Corporation organizers helped street vendors get permits, certificates, and undergo inspections in order to sell at the market, which was located at Hollenbeck Middle School. Street vendors lined half […]

A middle aged man that sits by a hill near the East LA Civic Center Lake, blushes when Estela Garcia sits next to him, her top teeth protruding out of her mouth. “I’m going to watch the ducks right here,” said Garcia, as she sat on Sunday next to a round middle-aged man with a backpack […]

The City Council voted two weeks ago to staff the Boyle Heights Community Plan, two years after it was stalled by budget cuts. The Council vote allowed the City to earmark Measure R funds to staff one position for the BHCP, while the City Planning Department committed a second planner. More than 40 percent of […]

At Monday night’s town hall meeting about helicopter noise in communities, residents from Sherman Oaks, Westwood, Torrance, Manhattan Beach and Rivera filled the  Burrill Hall at Millikan Middle School with more than 400 people. Yet, during the public comment section, it was clear there was an absence of residents from South Los Angeles and East […]

Saturday afternoon, the Ovarian Psycos  Bicycle Brigade led a bike ride that crisscrossed the Boyle Heights neighborhood showing off many of the important cultural and community centers to cyclists.  Some were new to the area, some were just visiting, some had lived in Boyle Heights all their lives.  Regardless of their familiarity with the neighborhood, all had a […]

It’s a packed weekend in Boyle Heights, filled with bicycle rides, events highlighting historical treasures, and an intersection getting some new public furniture. Here’s a weekend rundown of things to check out: Public furniture installation at the corner of Fickett Street and Wabash Avenue Union de Vecinos will install public furniture  at 6 p.m. today on the […]

I woke up sore in the morning, Damien learned how to do an Eastside handshake, and memories were made. Thanks to Dewey Tafoya and Social Machine Productions to making our Eastside Streetsblog shirt design, Santa Monica Spoke for donating the Flying Pigeon Bicycle, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition for letting us use their bike valet, […]

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Bike rides from east to west? Check. Bike Valet? Check. Awesome bike crews, and Streetsblog staff showing up? Check. Music from Angela Flores and Alejandra Leyva, AND El Haru-Kuroi at  Eastside Luv Wine Bar y Queso? Sounds like puro party. If that is not enough, how about getting an Eastside Streetsblog shirt designed by Social […]