Westlake

Westlake sits just west of downtown LA, one of the densest neighborhoods in the entire city, built out mostly in the early 1900s through the 1920s with large apartment buildings and courtyard complexes rather than single-family homes, since the area developed as urban housing for a growing city rather than a suburban tract. MacArthur Park, with its lake and the surrounding green space, gives the neighborhood a genuine landmark and gathering point in an area that otherwise has very little open space, and Alvarado Street and Sixth Street carry a dense, round-the-clock commercial energy that reflects the neighborhood's role as one of LA's most immigrant-heavy communities.

Westlake has long been a first-stop neighborhood for immigrants, particularly from Central America and Mexico, and that identity runs through everything from the businesses along the main corridors to the density of multi-family housing built specifically to accommodate large numbers of people in a small footprint.

It's a working-class, transient-by-necessity kind of neighborhood in some ways, but also home to families who've been here for decades and built genuine community ties despite the density and turnover around them. What keeps people here is proximity to downtown jobs, transit access, and a community that, despite everything, has held onto a strong cultural identity distinct from the rest of the city.

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