LAist: Echo Park Named One of Top 10 Great Neighborhoods

djpinklady

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:01:48 -0800

look at that. comments are the new forums.

jk77

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:57:49 -0800

while i understand taking things personally to an extent, you took my one remark so personally that you missed my entire point. i did not, as you suggest, "claim to know so much." unlike yourself, i have not been privileged to life all over the globe. rather, i've lived in underresourced neighborhoods for most of my life, and it amazes me how many people are naive to their realities, particularly of those still gentrifying. this was the context of my comment about "limited experience" - not life experience, but experience living in neighborhoods like mine. in all of your many traverses, having been privy to life on four different continents, surely you know what i'm talking about. i have to say though, for as defensive (there's that word again) as your response was - that last sentence, the one almost threatening in its tone, was more than a bit over the top. really.

iheartpitbulls

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:03:24 -0800

jk77, what i meant by "better known neighborhoods" and "sketchy people" meant...people who mug and terrorize aren't interested in hidden secrets like echo park. they will get their money's worth by heading over to hollywood! and, for your information, I have lived on 4 different continents and 5 different cities all over so. cal so stick that in your pipe and smoke it. so, please don't get so defensive and claim to know so much because i was obviously defending echo park. and for your information, I went to high school right next to compton and also lived in Long Beach for YEARS. please be careful when you make very general comments like those because you really, often times, do not know who you're being rude to.

jk77

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:48:21 -0800

"in my experience, typically, the sketchy people, you know, the ones that mug and terrorize people, tend to be in better known neighborhoods." comments like yours (and several others here) tend to come from people with limited experience who couldn't find compton with a gps unit (or at least not until the area gentrifies enough to alter the the current culture). but i'll agree with you on this: the "sketchy people" sure are in better known neighborhoods (if by "better known" you mean affluent). they're the fuckers that just got a 700 billion dollar bailout...

iheartpitbulls

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:10:54 -0800

now now kiddies. i agree with riley; if you don't appreciate the 'hood, maybe you shouldn't be there. i totally love echo park. in my experience, typically, the sketchy people, you know, the ones that mug and terrorize people, tend to be in better known neighborhoods. so, do us all a favor and spread the word that echo park is totally sketchy...we don't want the best-kept-secret to get out!

nomad

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:39:43 -0800

um yeah, definitely

nomad

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:36:08 -0800

Echo Park may be a lot safer than it was 5,10 years ago but as is most neighborhoods there are definatley some sketch areas. I feel safe in most places there but there are some parts I am inclined to be a bit more vigilant in than other others, and some I would avoid on a late night stroll home. So yeah.. all you morons and douchebags, its a pretty stupid thing to throw names about, I thinks. anyways, kind of cool to see echo park in one of these best of deals...

Manny

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:51:31 -0800

I just like the lake and its close to Dodger Stadium... I would be there in a minute! Better than the Valley. *sigh*

Alexcantsee

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:21:01 -0800

Don't forget! Elliott Smith stabbed himself to death nearby!

lahipster

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:33:45 -0800

echo park the music scene at night the geat resturaunts why do you think american apparel first store ever is located in echo park

QuietTristan

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:26:48 -0800

City Of Dodgers: I guess you might as well include me in the douche bag list. I feel totally safe in echo park , ive been mugged before , guess where Beverly and Doheny goes by the name beverly hills. Echo park say 15 years ago was pretty sketch but with the whole artist/gay/hipster community that changed the flow of the area I would say that echo park and silverlake are safe now. So go walk your dog you will be fine. buy some mase if your feel the need.

CityofDodgers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:16:33 -0800

It being the eve of Yom Kippur and all, I'd like to take back calling you a douche bag, Elmer, and extend it to Riley as well. You two are probably not douchebags. I admire your collective civic pride. Im not gonna say I hope your house gets burglarized because I kinda-sorta-a-little believe in karma...but let's just say I wouldn't mind if either of you got robbed on your way to Bootie LA. Hopefully you're wearing something tight fitting and bootylicious! Mwah!

CityofDodgers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:10:14 -0800

Well Elmer, that is definitely a possibility and I refuse to refute that. However, talk to me once you've been followed, chased, and mugged...douchebag.

benjamin

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:58:16 -0800

put down the crack pipe and pick up a map, jeffro.

jeffro

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:51:08 -0800

Echo Park is a 120 year old, walkable Los Angeles community just west of Downtown. Uh, west? Then how was I able to watch the sun set behind the LA skyline from the balcony of my Echo Park house? Or when they say 'Downtown' are they referring to Dodger Stadium?

djpinklady

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:36:05 -0800

the echo park lake is top on my list.

riley

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:29:06 -0800

right on, elmer, but don't give it away. i'd prefer if the clueless bougies who are too scared to venture east of fairfax stayed that way.

elmer

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:33:08 -0800

CityofDodgers: because you're a moron? What are you afraid of--hipsters? Get over yourself and walk your dog.

damian_z

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:12:26 -0800

I hear Santa Monica is pretty safe... I miss Echo Park. I had to move out of my rented house (of four years) by the lake last year due to a roommate situation and I cast my lot in with the moneyed hipsters around the Sunset Junction. Sure, being able to walk to Intelligentsia is great, but living there just feels... kinda sterile and uniform. Echo Park feels like a neighborhood. And nothing beats seeing the street-lights reflected in the lake at night. Go Ducks!

CityofDodgers

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:46:29 -0800

Ughhh, really? Then why am I still scared to walk my dog at night past 10:00?

hennypenny

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:38:10 -0800

Aww, they named Sheridan, too. Such a beautiful place.