Baldwin Village, Los Angeles

This article is about the neighborhood in Los Angeles, California. For the neighborhood in Toronto, Canada, see Baldwin Village.

Baldwin Village is a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles, California bounded by Coliseum Street and La Brea Ave. Baldwin Village is officially part of the Crenshaw district part of the city. This neighborhood has gone through some economic changes and current redevelopment.

History

Baldwin Village is occasionally called "The Jungle" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage, such as palms, banana trees and begonias, that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings.^[1] The Los Angeles City Council ostensibly changed the name in 1990, after residents complained that it reinforced the neighborhood's image as a wild and menacing place. They officially renamed it Baldwin Village, to reflect the affluent and peaceful Baldwin Hills neighborhood nearby, one of the most affluent African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles.^[2]

Redevelopment

Recently, former NBA star Magic Johnson and others have begun revitalization plans for the area, which have already begun to boost the area economically and socially. While redevelopment has shown many successes, not all efforts have yielded results; development of Marlton Square, for instance, was stalled in bankruptcy after years of work and millions of dollars of public and private funds.

Construction

It is now constructing a state of the art 100,000 square foot Kaiser Permanente medical office building to open in 2017.

Education

Dorsey High School in February 2007

Residents of Baldwin Village are zoned to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

In popular culture

It appeared in the movie White Men Can't Jump. The neighborhood appears in the 2001 film Training Day starring Denzel Washington, Episode 1 of Season 3 in the TV series Southland features a police traffic stop gone bad in Baldwin Village which incites gang members and onlookers to riot and attack police officers, as well as in the video for "Hard in da Paint" by Waka Flocka Flame.

References

↑ Winton, Richard (May 19, 2011). "Baldwin Village drug trafficking gang targeted in raid led by federal, local authorities". L.A. Now. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
↑ Hayasaki, Erika (September 30, 2006), Gang Violence Fuels Racial Tensions The fatal shooting of a 3-year-old girl in Baldwin Village escalates friction among blacks and Latinos in the neighborhood., Los Angeles Times

External links

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South Los Angeles region, Los Angeles

Districts and neighborhoods	Baldwin Hills Broadway-Manchester Canterbury Knolls Central-Alameda Chesterfield Square Crenshaw Exposition Park Gramercy Park Green Meadows Harvard Park Historic South Central Hyde Park Jefferson Park King Estates Leimert Park Manchester Square Nevin South Park University Park Vermont Knolls Vermont Square Vermont Vista Vermont-Slauson Watts West Adams

Points of interest	Coliseum Exposition Park USC Watts Towers

Neighboring cities and communities	Athens Compton Florence-Graham Harbor Area Huntington Park Inglewood Ladera Heights Lynwood South Gate Vernon View Park-Windsor Hills Westmont Willowbrook

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Coordinates: 34°00′54″N 118°20′52″W / 34.0150°N 118.3478°W / 34.0150; -118.3478

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