1st Street is an east-west thoroughfare in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 and East Los Angeles, California

East Los Angeles, California

East Los Angeles is an unincorporated area and census-designated place in Los Angeles County, California, United States...

. It serves as a postal divider between north and south and is one of a few streets to run from West Los Angeles to East Los Angeles. Though it serves as a major road east of Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, United States, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area...

, it is a mostly residential street to the west.

For over a mile between Hoover Street and Glendale Boulevard

Glendale Boulevard

Glendale Boulevard is a north–south street in Los Angeles that starts off as Lucas Avenue at 7th Street west of Downtown LA. The name changes at Beverly Boulevard. Echo Park is located north of the 101 at Bellevue Avenue. State Route 2 runs from Alvarado Street until the freeway entrance...

, 1st Street is synonymous with Beverly Boulevard

Beverly Boulevard

Beverly Boulevard is one of the main east-west thoroughfares in Los Angeles, California. It begins off Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills and ends on the Lucas Avenue overpass near Downtown Los Angeles to become 1st Street...

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Transportation

The Gold Line runs on east 1st Street between Alameda and Indiana Streets; it operates the Little Tokyo/Arts District

Little Tokyo/Arts District (LACMTA station)

Little Tokyo/Arts District Station is an at-grade light rail station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of First and Alameda Streets, on the edge of Little Tokyo and the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles. The station is served by the Gold Line...

, Pico/Aliso, Mariachi Plaza

Mariachi Plaza (LACMTA station)

Mariachi Plaza Station is a light rail subway station in the Los Angeles County Metro Rail system. It is located at the intersection of First Street and Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights District...

, Soto and Indiana stations. Metro Local

Metro Local

Metro Local is a bus system in Los Angeles County operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . This retronym designation was placed to differentiate it from the Metro Rapid service...

 line 14 runs through west First Street and Metro Local

Metro Local

Metro Local is a bus system in Los Angeles County operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority . This retronym designation was placed to differentiate it from the Metro Rapid service...

 line 30 through East First Street.

Notable Landmarks

• Beverly Center (western terminus)
• CBS Television West-Coast Headquarters
• Disney Concert Hall
• Pan Pacific Park
• Los Angeles City Hall
  Los Angeles City Hall
  Los Angeles City Hall, completed 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council...
  
  
• Caltrans District 7 Headquarters
  Caltrans District 7 Headquarters
  The Caltrans District 7 Headquarters building at 100 South Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California serves the California Department of Transportation and the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Built on a $165,000,000 budget it opened on September 24 2004...
  
  
• Little Tokyo
• Mariachi Plaza
  Mariachi Plaza
  Mariachi Plaza is a small square bounded by E. 1st street to the south, N. Boyle Avenue to the West and a small residential street named Pleasant Avenue to its North. The Square is located in the Boyle Heights district of the city of Los Angeles, East of Downtown....