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The '''Yucca Corridor''' is a small, diverse and densely populated neighborhood in [[Hollywood]], [[California]]; it exists along most of the length of Yucca Street. The neighborhood lies north of [[Hollywood Boulevard]] and south of [[Franklin Avenue (Los Angeles)|Franklin Avenue]], between [[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]] and [[Vine Street]]. It is around half-mile long and a quarter-mile wide. |
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The '''Yucca Corridor''' is a '"formerly notorious"<ref name=ALook>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/421395053 Monte Morin, "A Look Ahead: Activists Are Stepping Up Efforts on Their New Cause and Meeting Strong Business Opposition," ''Los Angeles Times,'' August 23, 1999, page 1]</ref> and "once crime-ridden"<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/421763758 Tina Daunt, "Candidates Focus Attention on Histories of Activism," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 26, 2001, page B-1]</ref> stretch of Yucca Avenue in [[Hollywood, California]], north of [[Hollywood Boulevard]] and [[Mann's Chinese Theater]].<ref name=VigilantStreet/> In 2007 it was said to be "a hub for young professionals, artists, musicians and actors."<ref name=NeighborlyAdvice>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/422108121 Jessica C. Lee, "Neighborly Advice: Being Discovered in Tinseltown," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 4, 2007]</ref> |
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The Yucca Corridor lies along the north side of the busiest part of Hollywood Boulevard. In addition to a heavy concentration of tourism-oriented shops and eateries, there are many bars and nightclubs in the area. Transit access is said to be good, as this part of Hollywood Boulevard serves as a major focus of the [[Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority|MTA]] bus system and is bracketed by two [[LACMTA Red Line|Red Line]] subway stations (at [[Hollywood/Vine (LACMTA Station)|Vine]] and [[Hollywood/Highland (LACMTA Station)|Highland]]).{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}} Yucca St. is also Los Angeles's first Bicycle Friendly Street (BFS) facility. The street has [[shared lane marking]]s (SLMs), bicycle pass-through diverters, and unique street signs. The building stock consists of a wide mix of age and condition, with mostly two-level retail buildings along Hollywood Boulevard and two- to six-level apartment buildings on the interior. There are also a few apartment towers, including the historic Contently and [[Montecito Apartments|Montevideo buildings]]. Landmarks in the Yucca Corridor include the [[First National Bank of Hollywood]] building, the [[Pacific Theatres|Pacific Theater]], the Hollywood [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]] station, and a portion of the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]. Major landmarks immediately adjacent to the corridor include the [[The Capitol Tower|Capitol Records Building]], [[Grauman's Egyptian Theatre]], [[Grauman's Chinese Theater]], the [[Kodak Theater]], and the [[Frederick's of Hollywood]] building. |
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==Geography== |
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The Yucca Corridor Coalition of Property Owners and Managers delineates Yucca Corridor as bounded on the west by North [[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]], on the north by [[Franklin Avenue (Los Angeles)|Franklin Avenue]], on the east by [[Vine Street]] and on the south by a line "just north of [[Hollywood Boulevard]]."<ref>[http://ycchollywood.org/ycc-membership] Yucca Corridor Coalition website</ref> In 2007 apartment [[Condominium (living space)|condominium]]s were under development, but dwellers in the Corridor were mostly renters, and "mostly singles just starting their careers." In that year boutiques lined Yucca Street, which was described as "a trendy shopping spot hoping to rival [[Melrose Avenue]]" as a commercial center. Area [[nightclubs]] were said to "bolster the Yucca Corridor's thriving night life."<ref name=NeighborlyAdvice/> |
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==History== |
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The Yucca Corridor received its name at the first general meeting of the [[Ivar Hill Community Association]] in April, 1991, where President [[Joe Shea]] proposed the name to help city officials become accustomed to thinking of it as one issue. Until then, individual streets that crossed Yucca Street were the focus of crime eradication efforts. The use of a single term caught on as separate Neighborhood Watch groups—the Ivar Hawks, Cherokee Condors, Las Palms Lions, Wilcox Werewolves, Whitley Rangers, Saving Grace, and Hudson Howlers—began working in unison as the United Streets of Hollywood in 1989.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/2007/mar/04/real estate/re-guide 4</ref> |
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That umbrella group brought surveillance cameras to the worst corner—Wilcox at Yucca—and through group efforts got foot patrols and other attention from police that began to slowly turn around the troubled, dangerous community. Shea said that more than 23 people had been shot on Yucca just between [[Cahuenga Boulevard]] and Iva Avenue, a 200-yard stretch of the Yucca Corridor that often figured in news reports and documentaries about Hollywood's crime problem during the 1990s. In the end, however, closing a dangerous bar called La Iguerita near Iva and Yucca and the 1994 [[Northridge earthquake]], which emptied several of the most dangerous buildings along Yucca Street on Cahuenga Boulevard and Cherokee Avenue gave a foothold from which to begin a redevelopment cycle. Following this redevelopment cycle, the community emerged safer and more tourist-friendly. |
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By 1993 the Corridor had been dominated for several years by the [[18th Street Gang]], according to Sharon Romero, leader of the Hollywood Beautification Team, which was formed to paint over [[graffiti]], among other projects. She said gang members had "harassed us on the streets, pulled guns on us and kicked our paint cans over." Between May and July of that year the Los Angeles Police Department engaged in a concerted effort to rid the area of gang activity, including the use of additional police and [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms]] officers.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/282252660 Helene Webb, "Violence in L.A.: The LAPD Reports," ''Los Angeles Times,'' May 1, 1994, page 2]</ref> A 1994 survey by the city's Falcon narcotics program said that the Corridor was one of L.A.'s most drug-infested neighborhoods. The Falcon narcotics abatement unit was a multi-agency narcotics abatement effort comprised by prosecutors from the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, including a community organizer, LAPD officers and an inspector from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. They worked pro-actively to address narcotics and nuisance activity. The community organizer helped start community groups in the area taught property owners about concepts like crime prevention through environmental design and encouraged property managers to meet and coordinate efforts to improve their neighborhood. In 1995 the police were calling the area a "dope supermarket, ... where [[cocaine]] dealers ruled the streets and residents hid behind their doors from gunfire after dark."<ref name=VigilantStreet/> |
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In another community-building effort, a Christmas party was organized for local children along the Yucca Corridor that provided wrapped gifts and hot food for some 7,000 people between 1991 and 2003. The Las Palmas Lions also organized block parties. |
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By 2003, when an anchor property at Yucca and Vine was sold by the DePietro Family to a New York performing arts school, gentrification had begun in earnest. Residents like Jon Jay, who co-founded United Streets of Hollywood, and Joe Shea were forced out by property sales and higher rents. In an ironic twist, many of those who fought to save this historic part of Hollywood could no longer afford to live there. |
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{{quote box|align=left|width=33%|quote = We spent about three years organizing tenants and property owners, not against each other, but to work together to change the housing picture in places like the Yucca corridor. We ran out the drug dealers and the slum lords.|source= —City Council member [[Jackie Goldberg]] in 1997<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/421164558 Steve Proffitt, "Bringing Hollywood–the Place—Back Into the Limelight," June 1, 1997, page M-1]</ref>}} |
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in 1994, however, landowners, impressed by the use of a [[video camera]] in the [[Rodney King]] episode, began mounting cameras atop buildings, focused on the sidewalks below. They also affixed [[posters]] in the neighborhood warning "Buy Drugs, Go to Jail" and "Entering Videotape Surveillance Zone." Volunteer monitors scanned video screens at a nearby police station. Narcotics officers "made nearly 500 arrests and confiscated hundreds of grams of cocaine and heroin during an intensive 18-month campaign. Prosecutors pressed landlords to fence off open lots and board up vacant buildings," places where drug dealers congregated. Building inspectors cited owners for broken windows and other violations. These projects were spearheaded by [[neighborhood watch]] groups named after local streets, such as the Ivar Hawks, Cherokee Condors and Wilcox Werewolves. [[Civil libertarians]], though, took issue with some aspects of the crime-prevention program. [[Constitutional law]] expert [[Erwin Chemerinsky]], for example, said he was "troubled by having behavior monitored directly or indirectly by the government, absent [[probable cause]]," and others objected to the police attempting to identify suspected drug buyers through [[Vehicle registration plates of the United States|license-plate numbers]].<ref name=VigilantStreet>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/293229933 Duke Helfand, "Vigilant Street Cameras Drive Drug Dealers Away," ''Los Angeles Times,'' February 20, 1996, page 1]</ref><ref name=NeighborlyAdvice/><ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/293353058 Robert J. Lopez and Rich Connell, "Gang Turns Hope to Fear, Lives to Ashes," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 18, 1996, page 1]</ref> |
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==Demographics== |
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As of the 2000 Census,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=14000US06037190200&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF4_U_DP1&-ds_name=D&-_lang=en |title=American FactFinder |publisher=Factfinder.census.gov |date= |accessdate=2013-11-07}}</ref> the Yucca Corridor has 6,177 people living in 3,578 households. Of these households, 75% are non-family, 99% rent their dwellings, and about 40% have no vehicles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=14000US06037190200&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF3_U_QTH11&-ds_name=D&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false |title=American FactFinder |publisher=Factfinder.census.gov |date= |accessdate=2013-11-07}}</ref> The neighborhood is one of the most diverse in [[Southern California]],<ref>[http://www.csun.edu/~hfgeg005/eturner/gallery/ChangingFaces.html ]{{dead link|date=November 2013}}</ref> with a population that is 44% white, 35% Latino, 10% black, and 7% Asian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=14000US06037190200&-qr_name=DEC_2000_PL_U_QTPL&-ds_name=D&-_lang=en&-redoLog=false |title=American FactFinder |publisher=Factfinder.census.gov |date= |accessdate=2013-11-07}}</ref> It has a population density of roughly 37,000 persons per square mile, the densest block having over 80,000 per square mile.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/AGSGeoAddressServlet?_MapEvent=showResult&_category=&_subcategory=&_stateSelectedFromDropDown=null&context=ags&programYear=50:420&street=1737+n+las+palmas+ave&city=&states=null&zip=90028&_geo_id=14000US06037190200:Y:50:14000US06037190200&geo_id=14000US06037190200&_programYear=50&_treeId=420&_lang=en&tree_id=420&bucket_id=50 |title=American FactFinder |publisher=Factfinder.census.gov |date= |accessdate=2013-11-07}}</ref> |
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In another crime-fighting move, the city's Neighborhood Recovery Program sponsored [[Demonstration (protest)|neighborhood marches]] in 1996, and streets were reconfigured for [[one-way traffic]].<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/293526913 Tracy Johnson, "South Bay: 5 Harbor-Area Neighborhoods Added to Recovery Project," ''Los Angeles Times,'' October 17, 1996, page 5]</ref> That was the same year that three dilapidated buildings near Yucca Street and Las Palmas Avenue, made uninhabitable by the [[Northridge earthquake]], were demolished and plans were made to build a community center in their stead.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/421078659 "Westside: Slum Makes Way for Recreation Center," ''Los Angeles Times,'' December 17, 1996, page 4]</ref> The damage done by the earthquake resulted in the destruction of many old buildings and, it was reported, and eventually led to its transition into a "safer, tourist-friendly place."<ref name=NeighborlyAdvice/> |
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By 1999, neighborhood activists were turning their attention to a perceived glut of liquor stores and nightclubs all over Hollywood occasioned by an uptick in applications for liquor licenses. Particularly opposed was an application by a 16,800-square-foot [[Sav-on]] drugstore at Yucca and North [[Cahuenga Boulevard]]. A neighborhood group also claimed that clubs in the Yucca-Ivar Avenue area had been the sites of large fights, and it was noted that the Corridor still suffered 20 percent more reported crime than the city average.<ref name=ALook/> |
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In 2007, a ''Los Angeles Times'' survey of the area found that "Homicides are down but the neighborhood still has a relatively high rate of robberies, burglaries, thefts and assaults. Residents and community activists say they walk freely through the Yucca Corridor during the day but do so with more caution after nightfall."<ref name=NeighborlyAdvice/> |
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==Gateway to Hollywood== |
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In 2002, a 30-foot-high triangular glass tower, lighted from within, was installed in a traffic median at the intersection of [[Cahuenga Boulevard]], Wilcox Avenue and Franklin Avenue. The $658,000 structure features the word "HOLLYWOOD" running vertically down its three sides and was designed to greet visitors who enter Hollywood from the Cahuenga [[Interchange (road)|offramp]] of the [[Hollywood Freeway]].<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/421846417 "Ground Is Broken for Tower, Fountain Project," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 4, 2002, page B-4]</ref><ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/421651733 "Gateway to Hollywood to Serve as Beacon and Beautification Project," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 20, 2001, page B-3]</ref> |
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==Bicycle route== |
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As part of a $200,000 traffic improvement project, eight-tenths of a mile of Yucca Street, between Cahuenga Boulevard and Highland Avenue, became Los Angeles's first "bike-friendly street" in 2012. At some intersections concrete [[Bollard#Traffic bollards|bollards]] and [[signage]] directed automobiles to turn off the street while bicyclists were allowed to proceed straight ahead. Traffic had been diverted at Las Palmas Avenue, Cherokee Avenune and Whitley Avenue before the project began. The blue municipal [[street signs]] were modified to include an [[Depiction|artist's representation]] of a bicycle in a contrasting color, green. The [[curbs|curbings]] at each automobile diverter were cut into paths wide enough for bikes and pedestrians, with the outline of a bicycle painted on the sidewalk as a [[Shared lane marking|sharrow, or shared-lane marking]].<ref>[http://www.laweekly.com/arts/las-first-official-bike-friendly-street-our-review-2370499 Alissa Walker, "L.A.'s First Official Bike-Friendly Street: Our Review," ''LA Weekly,'' September 21, 2012]</ref><ref>[https://ladotbikeblog.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/yucca-st-bicycle-friendly-street/ Bike blog, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, April 2, 2012]</ref><ref>[http://beverlypress.com/2013/10/after-improvements-yucca-is-bicycle-friendly/ Aaron Blevins, "After Improvements, Yucca Is Bicycle-Friendly," ''Beverly Press,'' October 3, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://la.curbed.com/archives/2012/04/plans_to_make_yucca_st_a_bikefriendly_alternative_to_hollywood.php Neal Broverman, "Yucca St. to Become a Bike-Friendly Alternative to Hollywood," ''Curbed Los Angeles,'' April 4, 2012]</ref><ref>[http://beverlypress.com/2013/10/after-improvements-yucca-is-bicycle-friendly/ Aaron Blevins, "After Improvements, Yucca Is Bicycle-Friendly," ''ParkLaBrea News Beverly Press,'' October 3, 2013]</ref> |
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==Education== |
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Public schools serving Yucca Corridor are Selma Avenue Elementary School, Joseph LeConte Middle School and [[Hollywood High School]].<ref name=NeighborlyAdvice/> |
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The Yucca Corridor is a '"formerly notorious"[1] and "once crime-ridden"[2] stretch of Yucca Avenue in Hollywood, California, north of Hollywood Boulevard and Mann's Chinese Theater.[3] In 2007 it was said to be "a hub for young professionals, artists, musicians and actors."[4]
Geography
[edit]The Yucca Corridor Coalition of Property Owners and Managers delineates Yucca Corridor as bounded on the west by North Highland Avenue, on the north by Franklin Avenue, on the east by Vine Street and on the south by a line "just north of Hollywood Boulevard."[5] In 2007 apartment condominiums were under development, but dwellers in the Corridor were mostly renters, and "mostly singles just starting their careers." In that year boutiques lined Yucca Street, which was described as "a trendy shopping spot hoping to rival Melrose Avenue" as a commercial center. Area nightclubs were said to "bolster the Yucca Corridor's thriving night life."[4]
History
[edit]By 1993 the Corridor had been dominated for several years by the 18th Street Gang, according to Sharon Romero, leader of the Hollywood Beautification Team, which was formed to paint over graffiti, among other projects. She said gang members had "harassed us on the streets, pulled guns on us and kicked our paint cans over." Between May and July of that year the Los Angeles Police Department engaged in a concerted effort to rid the area of gang activity, including the use of additional police and Bureau of Tobacco and Firearms officers.[6] A 1994 survey by the city's Falcon narcotics program said that the Corridor was one of L.A.'s most drug-infested neighborhoods. The Falcon narcotics abatement unit was a multi-agency narcotics abatement effort comprised by prosecutors from the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, including a community organizer, LAPD officers and an inspector from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. They worked pro-actively to address narcotics and nuisance activity. The community organizer helped start community groups in the area taught property owners about concepts like crime prevention through environmental design and encouraged property managers to meet and coordinate efforts to improve their neighborhood. In 1995 the police were calling the area a "dope supermarket, ... where cocaine dealers ruled the streets and residents hid behind their doors from gunfire after dark."[3]
We spent about three years organizing tenants and property owners, not against each other, but to work together to change the housing picture in places like the Yucca corridor. We ran out the drug dealers and the slum lords.
—City Council member Jackie Goldberg in 1997[7]
in 1994, however, landowners, impressed by the use of a video camera in the Rodney King episode, began mounting cameras atop buildings, focused on the sidewalks below. They also affixed posters in the neighborhood warning "Buy Drugs, Go to Jail" and "Entering Videotape Surveillance Zone." Volunteer monitors scanned video screens at a nearby police station. Narcotics officers "made nearly 500 arrests and confiscated hundreds of grams of cocaine and heroin during an intensive 18-month campaign. Prosecutors pressed landlords to fence off open lots and board up vacant buildings," places where drug dealers congregated. Building inspectors cited owners for broken windows and other violations. These projects were spearheaded by neighborhood watch groups named after local streets, such as the Ivar Hawks, Cherokee Condors and Wilcox Werewolves. Civil libertarians, though, took issue with some aspects of the crime-prevention program. Constitutional law expert Erwin Chemerinsky, for example, said he was "troubled by having behavior monitored directly or indirectly by the government, absent probable cause," and others objected to the police attempting to identify suspected drug buyers through license-plate numbers.[3][4][8]
In another crime-fighting move, the city's Neighborhood Recovery Program sponsored neighborhood marches in 1996, and streets were reconfigured for one-way traffic.[9] That was the same year that three dilapidated buildings near Yucca Street and Las Palmas Avenue, made uninhabitable by the Northridge earthquake, were demolished and plans were made to build a community center in their stead.[10] The damage done by the earthquake resulted in the destruction of many old buildings and, it was reported, and eventually led to its transition into a "safer, tourist-friendly place."[4]
By 1999, neighborhood activists were turning their attention to a perceived glut of liquor stores and nightclubs all over Hollywood occasioned by an uptick in applications for liquor licenses. Particularly opposed was an application by a 16,800-square-foot Sav-on drugstore at Yucca and North Cahuenga Boulevard. A neighborhood group also claimed that clubs in the Yucca-Ivar Avenue area had been the sites of large fights, and it was noted that the Corridor still suffered 20 percent more reported crime than the city average.[1]
In 2007, a Los Angeles Times survey of the area found that "Homicides are down but the neighborhood still has a relatively high rate of robberies, burglaries, thefts and assaults. Residents and community activists say they walk freely through the Yucca Corridor during the day but do so with more caution after nightfall."[4]
Gateway to Hollywood
[edit]In 2002, a 30-foot-high triangular glass tower, lighted from within, was installed in a traffic median at the intersection of Cahuenga Boulevard, Wilcox Avenue and Franklin Avenue. The $658,000 structure features the word "HOLLYWOOD" running vertically down its three sides and was designed to greet visitors who enter Hollywood from the Cahuenga offramp of the Hollywood Freeway.[11][12]
Bicycle route
[edit]As part of a $200,000 traffic improvement project, eight-tenths of a mile of Yucca Street, between Cahuenga Boulevard and Highland Avenue, became Los Angeles's first "bike-friendly street" in 2012. At some intersections concrete bollards and signage directed automobiles to turn off the street while bicyclists were allowed to proceed straight ahead. Traffic had been diverted at Las Palmas Avenue, Cherokee Avenune and Whitley Avenue before the project began. The blue municipal street signs were modified to include an artist's representation of a bicycle in a contrasting color, green. The curbings at each automobile diverter were cut into paths wide enough for bikes and pedestrians, with the outline of a bicycle painted on the sidewalk as a sharrow, or shared-lane marking.[13][14][15][16][17]
Education
[edit]Public schools serving Yucca Corridor are Selma Avenue Elementary School, Joseph LeConte Middle School and Hollywood High School.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Monte Morin, "A Look Ahead: Activists Are Stepping Up Efforts on Their New Cause and Meeting Strong Business Opposition," Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1999, page 1
- ^ Tina Daunt, "Candidates Focus Attention on Histories of Activism," Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2001, page B-1
- ^ a b c Duke Helfand, "Vigilant Street Cameras Drive Drug Dealers Away," Los Angeles Times, February 20, 1996, page 1
- ^ a b c d e f Jessica C. Lee, "Neighborly Advice: Being Discovered in Tinseltown," Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2007
- ^ [1] Yucca Corridor Coalition website
- ^ Helene Webb, "Violence in L.A.: The LAPD Reports," Los Angeles Times, May 1, 1994, page 2
- ^ Steve Proffitt, "Bringing Hollywood–the Place—Back Into the Limelight," June 1, 1997, page M-1
- ^ Robert J. Lopez and Rich Connell, "Gang Turns Hope to Fear, Lives to Ashes," Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1996, page 1
- ^ Tracy Johnson, "South Bay: 5 Harbor-Area Neighborhoods Added to Recovery Project," Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1996, page 5
- ^ "Westside: Slum Makes Way for Recreation Center," Los Angeles Times, December 17, 1996, page 4
- ^ "Ground Is Broken for Tower, Fountain Project," Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2002, page B-4
- ^ "Gateway to Hollywood to Serve as Beacon and Beautification Project," Los Angeles Times, November 20, 2001, page B-3
- ^ Alissa Walker, "L.A.'s First Official Bike-Friendly Street: Our Review," LA Weekly, September 21, 2012
- ^ Bike blog, Los Angeles Department of Transportation, April 2, 2012
- ^ Aaron Blevins, "After Improvements, Yucca Is Bicycle-Friendly," Beverly Press, October 3, 2013
- ^ Neal Broverman, "Yucca St. to Become a Bike-Friendly Alternative to Hollywood," Curbed Los Angeles, April 4, 2012
- ^ Aaron Blevins, "After Improvements, Yucca Is Bicycle-Friendly," ParkLaBrea News Beverly Press, October 3, 2013