Recent Streetsblog LA posts about South LA

In an effort to show how transportation, open space, planning and other issues impact the health and character 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 the Communities Editor for Streetsblog Los Angeles and is leading our coverage efforts in these communities. This page serves as a place to read Sahra’s and all of Streetsblog’s coverage of issues in South L.A. Contact Sahra at sahra[at]streetsblog.org or on twitter: @sahrasulaiman.

Ring, Ring! Who’s There? The Leimert Phone Company!

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

When is the last time you used a public payphone? Yeah, think hard for a second. It’s been a while, huh? That’s what Ben Caldwell of the KAOS Network and the good people at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab thought. After Caldwell saw a segment on the repurposing of payphones as ATMs, he looked at […]

Packed Auditorium Cheers and Questions the MyFigueroa! Project

By Damien Newton | Apr 10, 2013 | 24 Comments

(It’s taking a long time to process the video from last night. We’ll have full, cleaner, copies of Gandy and Smith’s presentations and the Q and A. late tonight or tomorrow. – DN) The February 2011 MyFigueroa! meeting was something of a love-in. The room was packed with advocates who loudly applauded the project both […]

Group Ride Feeds to Tonight’s Mega MyFigueroa Meeting

By Damien Newton | Apr 9, 2013 | 1 Comment

After over two years, the MyFigueroa team is finally ready to present new designs and a new project to create a truly multi-modal corridor to connect Downtown to South Los Angeles. There’s a lot of ways to attend tonight’s meeting, beginning at 5:30 pm at Andrew Norman Hall Orthopaedic Hospital, 2400 S. Flower St. at […]

M&W4M&W: Organization Seeks Vibrant, Active & Excited 20-somethings Ready to Go the Distance…for their Community

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 8, 2013 | No Comments

The last time I wrote a full piece on Community Coalition (CoCo) I was at their election-night viewing party last November. The energy in the room was electric — from the dancing toddlers all the way up to the dancing retirees. The success of their get-out-the-vote and Prop 30 door-knocking campaigns had provided a powerful […]

South L.A. Steps it Up with Inspirational L.A. 2050 Proposals: Great Ideas from the Advancement Project, Black Worker Center, Community Coalition, Community Health Councils, Neighborhood Land Trust, TRUST South L.A., and the WLCAC with Civic Projects

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 2, 2013 | No Comments

As Damien noted in his post on city-wide projects, voting on proposals submitted for the L.A. 2050 Challenge begins today. Sorting through the nearly three hundred proposals vying for the $100,000 prize to find the true gems is probably more than a little daunting for the casual observer. I can only imagine the questions running […]

Ask and Ye Shall Receive: Pothole Be Gone!

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 29, 2013 | 4 Comments

Just this past Wednesday, I wrote about how a pothole of epic proportions had bounced a small child out of his carrier and nearly been his undoing. Returning from Watts yesterday, I was speechless to find it paved over. “Stunned” is probably a better word. For the past year and a half, I have watched the […]

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