Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Eastside

In an effort to show how transportation, open space, planning and other issues are intertwined with the health, culture, livability and strength of a community, Streetsblog and The California Endowment teamed to bring Streetsblog’s coverage to a hyper-local level in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles. Sahra Sulaiman is Communities Editor for Streetsblog Los Angeles and oversees work in South Los Angeles and Boyle Heights. Her work and that of our former Boyle Heights-specific writer Kris Fortin can be found here. Contact Sahra at sahra[at]streetsblog.org or on twitter: @sahrasulaiman.

Vernon Battery Recycling Plant Sues to Overturn New Air Quality Rule

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 11, 2014 | 3 Comments

Exide Technologies – the embattled battery recycling facility in Vernon — has been given a lot of breaks over the years, but apparently they feel they haven’t had it easy enough. Last Friday, they filed a lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court asking a judge to set aside the South Coast Air Quality Management […]

Hearing For One Hit-and-Run is Rescheduled While Another Takes the Life of a Young Man in Watts

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 5, 2014 | No Comments

When a female (who may or may not have been walking her bicycle) was hit and killed by a bus on Slauson in South L.A. last month, I got a few phone calls from friends in the area. “Was it you?” “No,” I reassured them. “I’m still here.” I was surprised they had heard about […]

A Hearing and a Meeting on Boyle Heights Streets This Week

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 3, 2014 | No Comments

The Boyle Heights/El Sereno/Lincoln Heights communities logged a victory last fall when USC decided that they would not only reroute a road originally planned to connect Norfolk St. with Soto through Hazard Park (left), but that they would also vacate claims to that portion of the land by handing it over to the Dept. of […]

“Nothing Brings Me Comfort”: Family of Hit-and-Run Victim Plan to Hold Ride to Driver’s Hearing

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 31, 2014 | 1 Comment

What goes through the mind of a drunk driver who senselessly mows people down? It’s a question the family and friends of Luis “Andy” Garcia are still waiting for answers to. Garcia, an experienced cyclist and recent transplant to L.A., was riding home with friends on the night of September 14th, 2013, when 21 year-old […]

How Will Helicopter Noise Relief Act Help Those in Heavily Policed Communities?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 28, 2014 | 16 Comments

If you live in an area with a lot of police helicopter activity, it can be very frustrating. Not just because it can wake you up in the middle of the night, rattling your windows, shaking your walls, or occasionally even shining a spotlight inside your apartment. But also because you rarely learn why it […]

Photo Exhibit Brings Human-Scale Public Art to Olympic Blvd. in Boyle Heights

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 24, 2014 | No Comments

Take a ride along Olympic Blvd. in Boyle Heights, and you will be struck by how unwelcoming it can feel to humans. The street is quite wide and busy at certain times of the day, often supporting heavy truck traffic. The industrial sites that populate the area are generally windowless and sometimes rather noisy. At […]

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