Wilshire/Vermont is a heavy-rail subway station in the Los Angeles Metro system. Located at Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, it is served by the Red Line and the Purple Line. The station is designed with two platform levels: eastbound Purple and Red Line trains (to Union Station) use the upper level, and westbound Purple (to Wilshire/Western) and Red (to North Hollywood) trains use the lower level. There are a dozen rack spaces for bicycles, but no parking for cars. Above the station is the Wilshire Vermont mixed-use transit village development, a $136-million apartment and retail complex designed by the firm Arquitectonica on land owned by the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The development opened in 2007 and includes apartments and […]
Address: 3rd Street between Alexandria and New Hampshire Phone Number: NA
Little Bangladesh is a four-block stretch of 3rd Street between Alexandria Avenue and New Hampshire Avenue in what is popularly considered the northern parts of Koreatown. The ethnic enclave was formally designated in 2010 by the Los Angeles City Council.
The Islamic Center of Southern California (ICSC) provides religious, educational and recreational facilities for the Muslim community. It is located on Vermont Avenue in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. There is a significant Muslim residential population in Koreatown, including an officially designated Little Bangladesh business section on Third Street. The Indonesian consulate is on Wilshire Boulevard.
Wilshire Colonnade property… The property consists of 3 separate components: 1) The twin 11-story towers, 2) a Normandy style (circa 1922) one-story commercial building, and 3) a vacant three-story office building with parking at the ground level. The two mirror image 11-story towers, consisting of approximately 181,000 rsf each, occupies center stage for the property, framing a marble clad plaza filled with lush trees with concentric elliptical fountains in the heart of Wilshire Center. The building is well known for its picturesque quality with its unusual arches and hanging lights, evocative of the 1970s era. The courtyard is often the site of filming and commercials, and many tenant events as well. 3701-3731 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90010 Management Office […]
Address: 987 S Mariposa Ave 90006 Phone Number: 213-385-0241
Opened in the fall of 2005, the Mariposa-Nabi Primary Center is housed in a strikingly colorful building for students in kindergarten to second grade. Mariposa is the name of the street on which the school entrance is; it means “butterfly” in Spanish, while “Nabi” (나비) is the Korean word for “butterfly.”
This Purple Line metro station is named after the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue (the subway is on the northeast corner) and in 2013, after Alfred Hoyun Song, the first Asian-American politician to be elected as state senator to the California State Assembly. Alfred Hoyun Song (Korean name: 송호윤) was born in Hawaii to parents who were sugar-cane plantation workers. In 1940 he moved to Los Angeles and finished his bachelor’s degree at the University of Southern California. He was the first Asian American legislator elected to the California State Assembly in 1962. He was also the first Korean American to be elected to the California State Senate, where he acted as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The […]
Address: 6th Street Between Serrano & Hobart 90020 Phone Number: NA
Sixth Street between Serrano & Hobart is the location where LAPD arrested Kim Nguyen in March 2013 for public intoxication, while leaving her drunker male friends behind.
The northwest corner of Wilshire & Vermont is where carjacking suspect Shonchy Thaopraseuth was shot more than 60 times by LAPD after a televised slow-speed pursuit in February 2012. He was 22 years old.
In 2010, the Los Angeles City Council formally declared Koreatown's borders as Western Avenue, Olympic Boulevard, Vermont Avenue, and 3rd Street, with a business corridor on Western from 3rd to Rosewood Avenue.
