Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Boyle Heights

Boyle Heights will get some new furniture this Saturday, as city and neighborhood groups gather to inaugurate the installation of public living rooms at the corner of Fickett and Boulder Streets. Installation of the public living rooms, which are pieces of furniture left in the public for people to use, is part of the campaign […]

Only a few days removed from protestors marching up Soto Street to demonstrate against a proposed CVS and shopping center development, people milled around a new Walgreens just two blocks from the protest. Walgreens employees wearing “I <3 Boyle Heights” t-shirts greeted patrons on Monday for its opening inauguration, handing out vitamin samples, plastic cups, […]

The Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council approved a motion to craft a policy geared towards limiting high-density development projects. The Planning and Land Use Committee’s recommended motion aims to preserve the “existing character of the community,” by demanding traffic data, allotting parking space for automobiles and limiting high density developments. “Boyle Heights of 20-30 years ago was mostly […]

Opening June 4th: Wallgreens on Cesar Chavez Avenue A Wallgreens will open on the corner of Cesar Chavez Avenue and Breed Street on June 4th, making it the first big box store to open on the iconic street. There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:00 A.M., and activities will take place from 10:00 […]

After 30 years, and five different councilmembers, community members from Boyle Heights finally got  a traffic light at the heavily congested intersection of Cesar Chavez Avenue and Fresno Street. Councilman Jose Huizar, District 14, and local community members gathered Saturday morning to turn on the traffic light, and recall the work that it took to […]