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On Jan. 12, MacArthur Park was included in a number of locations selected for enforcement of the city's anti-camping law to prohibit tents, sleeping and blocking of the public right-of-way.
Back at South Park View, take a look inside the magnificent Art Deco-inspired Park Plaza Hotel. Then cross South Park View and enter MacArthur Park again, walking downhill on the paved path toward ...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and city officials announced progress in improving safety and cleanliness at MacArthur Park, following a comprehensive approach that led to a decrease in crime, with a ...
Sprawling MacArthur Park has a murky lake ringed by palm trees, an amphitheater that hosts summer concerts and sports fields where immigrant families line up to play soccer in the evenings and on ...
Sidelined vendors have been protesting now and then near the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station. On Jan. 31, I met vendors Sabrina Medina and her mother, Elizabeth, who had gathered nearby with ...
The name MacArthur Park refers both to its central park and the 2.72 mile radius surrounding it—a neighborhood also called Westlake that has a long and complicated history of overcrowding ...
Despite weeks of fears over violent confrontations and resistance, nightfall came quietly to MacArthur Park on Friday. The park, just west of downtown Los Angeles, closed for 10 weeks beginning at ...
MacArthur Park is scheduled to close tonight for maintenance, which means anyone living in the park must be gone by 10:30 p.m. As the clock ticks down, the office of L.A. City Councilmember Gil ...
We can talk about the lyrics in a moment, but the length is one thing “MacArthur Park” is famous for, at 7 minutes and 21 seconds, which was historic for a radio single at the time.
Year-to-date property crime is up in LAPD’s Rampart Division, a 5.5-square-mile area including the communities of MacArthur Park, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Angelino Heights and Pico-Union.