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NoHo
Photograph by Mindee Choi Compared with its neighbors, North Hollywood had long lacked an identity. It was neither as trendy as Studio City nor as sleepy as Burbank. Then in 1992, the City of Los...
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Little Tokyo
Like much of downtown Los Angeles, this is boom time for Little Tokyo. Everywhere you look in the century-old neighborhood just east of City Hall, another upscale residential project is going up. Of...
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South Pasadena
South Pasadena has long been considered a great place to live, especially for families drawn by the top-rated schools. Now, thanks largely to the arrival of the Gold Line, a slew of smart restaurants...
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Hermosa Beach
If Manhattan Beach is all sleek storefronts and Redondo Beach mostly strip malls, Hermosa Beach is somewhere in between—a charming hub that retains its counterculture vibe, even though starter homes...
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Encino
It’s been 25 years since Frank and Moon Unit Zappa memorialized Encino as “like, so bitchen” in the hit song “Valley Girl.” Despite the influx of big-box stores, the community retains much of its retro...
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Montrose
Photograph by Mindee Choi The stretch of Honolulu Avenue that makes up Montrose’s main drag has appeared in dozens of films. It’s easy to see why: The picturesque storefronts, shady pines, and kids...
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Pico-Hauser
As with many other nondescript thoroughfares in Los Angeles, the proliferation of liquor stores and auto body shops that line this stretch of Pico Boulevard has rendered it the equivalent of a flyover...
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The New Chinatown
Photograph by Mindee Choi Pedestrian-friendly plazas—check. Offbeat architecture with dragon motifs—check. Close proximity to the booming downtown—check. With stats like these, L.A.’s Chinatown is...
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Magnolia Park
Photograph by Mindee Choi When Earl L. White broke ground on Burbank’s Magnolia Park in the 1920s, there were plenty of naysayers. But the people came, and the modest ranch-style homes were sold to WWI...
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Culver City
There was gold in those flatlands east of the Pacific, once developer Harry Culver lured the fledgling film business to set up shop on the former ranchos in the early 1900s. Industry workers flocked to...
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4th Street
Before eBay, 4th Street was a trove of vintage goods. In the 1970s, locals stocked up on antiques for their homes in the nearby historic districts. Two decades later, as real estate prices soared and...
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Koreatown
High-rises make the stretch between Westlake and Hancock Park one of L.A.’s most alluring hardscapes, with buildings going up on seemingly every block and clubbers filling the neon-lit streets after...
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Calabasas
From Chumash Indians to Spanish explorers, Basque rancho owners to scrappy homesteaders, 1920s artists to D-list reality stars, the famed oaks of Calabasas have shaded generations of residents. When...
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Sawtelle
Teens flock to Sawtelle Boulevard between Santa Monica and Olympic for the streetwear and karaoke, their parents for traditional household goods, and everyone else for the food. When it comes to...
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Sierra Madre
Don’t be surprised if you recognize the shady intersection that anchors this century-old community; it has appeared in dozens of films as a stand-in for Smalltown, USA. With its massive elm trees and...
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Tehrangeles
Westwood Boulevard between Wilshire and Olympic is the commercial heart of the city’s Iranian community, which makes up the largest concentration of Persians outside Iran. Many came in the late ’70s...
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Boyle Heights
Photographs by Mindee Choi Street names like St. Louis, Indiana, and Brooklyn (rechristened in honor of Cesar Chavez in 1994) are holdovers from the early 1900s, when a Jewish community thrived in...
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Tujunga Village
Photograph by Mindee Choi The Brady Bunch lived in the vicinity of Tujunga Village, and in some ways that quaint TV fiction still holds. This Studio City enclave is only a block long and offers leafy...
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Atwater Village
Photograph by Michael Newhouse A relatively green stretch of the L.A. River is all that separates Atwater Village from Silver Lake and Los Feliz. It makes sense, then, that the boutiques, bars, and...
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Little India
Map by Michael Newhouse Imagine Mumbai’s Crawford Market in miniature—bustling fruit stalls, colorful sari shops, vendors hawking Bollywood DVDs—and you’ll have a good sense of Little India. Situated...
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