Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Boyle Heights

Eastside News Roundup: Liquor Store Inspections, a Teen Pregnancy “Hot Spot,” Publicly Opposed Wyvrenwood Development Gets Award

By Kristopher Fortin | May 15, 2012 | 3 Comments

(This is the first in a series of regular news updates on Boyle Heights Streetsblog will publish. For those not familiar with this slice of the city, we hope this news round-up will help provide more flavor and background for our Boyle Heights writing.) Last week, I was kicked out of my house for fumigation. […]

Active Transportation Discount at Boyle Heights Pan-American Restaurant

By Kristopher Fortin | May 7, 2012 | No Comments

Un Solo Sol Kitchen, a Boyle Heights restaurant that specializes in Pan-American dishes, but adds an eclectic and healthy twist, is offering a 25 percent discount Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays to people that arrive to the restaurant by bike, public transportation, or on foot. Basically, if you want the best deal at Un Solo Sol […]

Psyco de Mayo, Super Luna Ride

By Kristopher Fortin | May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments

Cinco de Mayo is often celebrated in bars, with people donning red, green and white apparel, and drinking tequila. While people miss out the meaning of Cinco de Mayo – the Battle of Puebla anyone?- the best party this Cinco de Mayo can be found tomorrow night on a bike, and looking up at the […]

CicLAvia Heading Deeper Through the Eastside, but When?

By Kristopher Fortin | May 2, 2012 | 3 Comments

For CicLAvia, figuring out how, when and where to expand has been its biggest challenge. While CicLAvia is free to attend, it costs a lot of money to push past the current 10-mile route, closing streets to cars, providing police support and re-routing car drivers who find entrences and exits from the freeway blocked. Despite […]

The Spontaneous Activities on 4th Street During CicLAvia

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 17, 2012 | 1 Comment

In Boyle Heights, CicLAvia is sometimes the first chance for people in the neighborhood to venture off the sidewalk and onto the streets on a bicycle, or provides local businesses an opportunity to get creative in the way they get involved in the ten and a half mile “open street” block party. One example came […]

Boyle Heights Guide to CicLAvia

By Kristopher Fortin | Apr 13, 2012 | 1 Comment

Though Hollenbeck Park is the jumping off point for many people in the Eastside to experience CicLavia, there are organized bike rides starting out on the eastside, and parties in the street itself, and intersections that will be teeming with activities both on and off the route. At the park itself, CicLAvia has a merchandise booth […]

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