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The time for excuses is over. L.A.'s MacArthur Park needs a champion now
3 days, 16 hours ago

The time for excuses is over. L.A.'s MacArthur Park needs a champion now

LA Times  

Early one morning in Westlake, as neighborhood children walked to school, I spotted a woman heading in my direction. They were walking on Bonnie Brae Street, a couple blocks east of MacArthur Park, where it’s not uncommon to see people who are either asleep or passed out, with syringes and needles scattered about. “No one should be dying on our …

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'Why are you messing with me for smoking fentanyl?' The tough task of policing MacArthur Park
1 week, 3 days ago

'Why are you messing with me for smoking fentanyl?' The tough task of policing MacArthur Park

LA Times  

•Police who patrol MacArthur Park and Westlake are frustrated by what they say is a lack of ‘tools’ when they are dealing with drugs and thefts. Officers from LAPD’s Rampart Division were on foot patrol one morning in late July when they saw what appeared to be fentanyl residue on a bong inside a vending booth on Alvarado Street. I …

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Why did someone add a giant meth pipe to MacArthur Park’s Prometheus statue?
1 month ago

Why did someone add a giant meth pipe to MacArthur Park’s Prometheus statue?

LA Times  

The statue of Prometheus at MacArthur Park now holds a giant meth pipe in his left hand, thanks to L.A. artists S.C. Mero and Wild Life. Guerrilla artists S.C. Mero and Wild Life included a reedited plaque in their alterations of the Prometheus statue in MacArthur Park. “It also gave us a chance to share the origins of the sculpture …

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Column: Can MacArthur Park be saved? Its past offers a blueprint
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Column: Can MacArthur Park be saved? Its past offers a blueprint

LA Times  

Late one morning on a sun-drenched November day, I was exploring the western edge of MacArthur Park when I came upon a social worker who was looking for a client. “No other place in Los Angeles thrummed with its subversive energy or labored under the weight of so much trauma,” Jesse Katz wrote of MacArthur Park in his critically acclaimed …

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Surrounded by violence, drug dealing and overdoses, workers at this L.A. restaurant struggle to hang on
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Surrounded by violence, drug dealing and overdoses, workers at this L.A. restaurant struggle to hang on

LA Times  

In one sense, the Yoshinoya Japanese Kitchen across the street from MacArthur Park couldn’t be in a better location. “I’ve had knives pulled on me, I’ve had people try to stab me with a screwdriver, and just the other day I got hit with a wooden bat,” Sanchez said. Garcia said she has often complained about neighborhood conditions to city …

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They keep finding — and losing — a granddaughter in the grip of addiction
3 months ago

They keep finding — and losing — a granddaughter in the grip of addiction

LA Times  

The search party walked slowly up Alvarado Street by MacArthur Park and turned right onto Wilshire Boulevard, filled with heartbreak and hope. “It’s one thing to do scary things in my own neighborhood,” Wood said of Westside environs she has scoured. After not seeing each other for a few weeks, Jackie hugs her mother, Michele Wood, right, along Wilshire Boulevard …

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Column: By MacArthur Park, the lights are out and residents are tired of empty promises
3 months, 1 week ago

Column: By MacArthur Park, the lights are out and residents are tired of empty promises

LA Times  

Andrew Wolff stood in darkness, looking down Alvarado Street and conducting a visual inventory of broken streetlights on the eastern border of MacArthur Park. “I would go to rehab if there was independent housing at the end of that, and I’m not saying I want it for free, either,” Brown said. “I would definitely go to rehab, 100 percent.” But …

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Letters to the Editor: My family had to close its iconic L.A. restaurant in 1990. Let’s hope Langer’s survives
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: My family had to close its iconic L.A. restaurant in 1990. Let’s hope Langer’s survives

LA Times  

A man walks with his belongings in a shopping cart across the street from Langer’s Deli near MacArthur Park on Aug. 21. To the editor: Your articles about Langer’s Deli and the sad state of the area around MacArthur Park are of interest to me, as our family was subject to the same issues more than 30 years ago. Our …

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Los Angeles without Langer’s? Owner says he’s considering closing
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Los Angeles without Langer’s? Owner says he’s considering closing

LA Times  

Langer’s deli owner Norm Langer said he’s tired of cajoling city officials to clean the streets, restore public safety and make MacArthur Park a destination again. 19 “the world’s best sandwich.” It’s hard to imagine Los Angeles without Langer’s. But Langer told Lopez he’s “tired of pushing the cart up the hill,” of cajoling city officials to clean the streets, …

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Langer's Deli owner wants L.A. to clean up MacArthur Park, may close
4 months ago

Langer's Deli owner wants L.A. to clean up MacArthur Park, may close

LA Times  

When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. Norm Langer, owner of Langer’s, says he’s upset with multiple festering public safety issues in the MacArthur Park neighborhood. “I’m considering closing,” Langer told me, even though he considers his customers and …

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Editorial: Reclaim MacArthur Park for people, not cars
5 months, 1 week ago

Editorial: Reclaim MacArthur Park for people, not cars

LA Times  

Of all the places in Los Angeles where it makes sense to close a street to cars, the half-mile stretch of Wilshire Boulevard through MacArthur Park tops the list. Now Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez has launched Reconnecting MacArthur Park, the city’s most ambitious effort yet to permanently pedestrianize a major street. So the city built the road through the middle of …

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‘It’s bold’: L.A. moves to close Wilshire Boulevard through MacArthur Park
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘It’s bold’: L.A. moves to close Wilshire Boulevard through MacArthur Park

LA Times  

One of Los Angeles’ most iconic streets may soon be car-free — or at least a small section of it. It’s probably the boldest closure of a major arterial in Los Angeles I’ve ever seen.” A visitor walks along the path at MacArthur Park. Los Angeles will study the feasibility of permanently closing Wilshire Boulevard, which splits MacArthur Park, to …

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L.A. bookseller went to protect his kids from a fight. He was shot and paralyzed
8 months, 1 week ago

L.A. bookseller went to protect his kids from a fight. He was shot and paralyzed

LA Times  

Police patrol MacArthur Park in 2021. Luis Hernandez was worried about his children shortly before he was shot in the back outside his business near MacArthur Park. Hernandez was rushed to Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, where doctors explained to his family that the bullet had struck his spine and he was paralyzed from the waist down, according to …

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Copper thieves strike again, mutilating a 100-year-old monument in MacArthur Park
8 months, 1 week ago

Copper thieves strike again, mutilating a 100-year-old monument in MacArthur Park

LA Times  

Standing stoutly on a granite rock just off Wilshire Boulevard in MacArthur Park, Harrison Gray Otis has lost his retinue. “It is a super important monument,” said Desmas, art historian and senior curator of sculpture and decorative arts at the Getty Museum, “not just because of Gen. Otis’ role in the history of Los Angeles but also for the sculptor.” …

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Los Angeles is not designed for anyone in their 80s; some days are an endurance test
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Los Angeles is not designed for anyone in their 80s; some days are an endurance test

LA Times  

The woman sat near the front of the bus with a red-framed walker at her feet and a look of discomfort on her face. Obadia said she’d picked up the phone for her sister at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street last year. “It doesn’t matter.” She calmly crossed Wilshire, though the don’t-walk sign flashed before her, and …

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Two people stabbed at Metro Red Line stations amid surge in crime on rail system
1 year, 8 months ago

Two people stabbed at Metro Red Line stations amid surge in crime on rail system

LA Times  

Two people were stabbed at Metro Red Line stations on Thursday in separate attacks, according to police, the latest in a surge in violent crime on the rail system. One man was stabbed around 5 p.m. while standing on a train platform at a station in East Hollywood, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A man was stabbed while standing …

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L.A. blasting classical music to drive unhoused people from subway station. It’s louder than officials claim
1 year, 8 months ago

L.A. blasting classical music to drive unhoused people from subway station. It’s louder than officials claim

LA Times  

A battle is being waged at the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station near downtown Los Angeles. “You’re trying to attract and make certain people feel comfortable based on the associations with classical music,” says musicologist Lily E. Hirsch, author of “Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment.” “And you see that in fancy cheese shops that play classical music because they …

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L.A. riders bail on Metro trains amid ‘horror’ of deadly drug overdoses, crime
1 year, 9 months ago

L.A. riders bail on Metro trains amid ‘horror’ of deadly drug overdoses, crime

LA Times  

Matthew Morales boarded the Metro Red Line at MacArthur Park as classical music blared over the station loudspeakers. It’s just people who have no other choice to ride the system, homeless people and drug users.” Commuters have abandoned large swaths of the Metro train system. “We’ve poured so much money into policing, without any measurable impact on care or safety …

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MacArthur Park reopens after months-long closure for cleanup and renovations
2 years, 10 months ago

MacArthur Park reopens after months-long closure for cleanup and renovations

LA Times  

A cleanup crew works in MacArthur Park on Oct. 16, the day after the park’s southern section was closed for renovations. “I am proud to reopen MacArthur Park Lakeside to make it clean, safe, and secure,” Councilmember Gil Cedillo, whose district includes the park, said in a statement Tuesday. Outreach workers begin the process of connecting an unhoused woman in …

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Fieles de Bukele abarrotan MacArthur Park. Los disidentes protestan bajo acoso de seguidores del presidente
2 years, 11 months ago

Fieles de Bukele abarrotan MacArthur Park. Los disidentes protestan bajo acoso de seguidores del presidente

LA Times  

Los seguidores del presidente Nayib Bukele se concentraron en la concha acústica del MacArthur Park, en la ciudad de Los Ángeles. La que se presagiaba sería una manifestación pacífica por poco se sale del control en Los Ángeles, de no ser por la intervención de la policía local que se presentó al MacArthur Park, en donde se congregó una multitud …

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L.A. just changed its entire approach to homelessness. Does it place politics above need?
3 years, 1 month ago

L.A. just changed its entire approach to homelessness. Does it place politics above need?

LA Times  

The city of Los Angeles has undertaken a major shift in its approach to homelessness, one that puts a priority on clearing unsightly street encampments even when insufficient permanent housing exists for the people being moved. This balance, he said, was made possible by the expansion of outreach and services for homeless people, and the development of new housing and …

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MacArthur Park closure proceeds calmly, despite fears of repeat of Echo Park violence
3 years, 2 months ago

MacArthur Park closure proceeds calmly, despite fears of repeat of Echo Park violence

LA Times  

An outreach worker talks with a homeless man named John, left, as he goes through his belongings in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on Friday. The park, just west of downtown Los Angeles, closed for 10 weeks beginning at 10:30 p.m. — the culmination of a 10-month project to guide homeless people living in tents around the park toward housing …

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L.A. prepares to clear homeless people from MacArthur Park; set to close Oct. 15 for ‘rehabilitation’ work
3 years, 2 months ago

L.A. prepares to clear homeless people from MacArthur Park; set to close Oct. 15 for ‘rehabilitation’ work

LA Times  

In the fight to reclaim Los Angeles’ public spaces, a new battleground is about to open just west of downtown. “I will not stand by while another ‘Echo Park’ happens here,” wrote Tom Bellino, a board member with the MacArthur Park Neighborhood Council, on Twitter. Aware of the obvious parallel, Cedillo’s office has prepared a “contrast chart,” differentiating its approach …

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Attacks on transgender women expose MS-13 gang’s grip on MacArthur Park
3 years, 3 months ago

Attacks on transgender women expose MS-13 gang’s grip on MacArthur Park

LA Times  

Graffiti in MacArthur Park by the MS-13 gang, whose members demand a “tax” from drug dealers, sex workers, vendors and others who use the park for both legitimate and illicit purposes. “They’d rather pay the tax than have to look over their shoulder,” said Officer Daniel Cardenas, who monitors MS-13 as part of a gang detail in the Los Angeles …

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