City Park West is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

. It is in the area known as East Denver, or the "East Side". According to the Piton Foundation, in 2007, the population of the neighborhood was 4,120 and there were 2,734 housing units. The racial makeup of the neighborhood in the year 2000 was 30.39% non-hispanic white

Caucasian race

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, 47.51% African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

, 18.23% Hispanic

Hispanic

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 or Latino

Latino

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, 1.38% Native American

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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, and 2.49% Asian

Asian American

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Boundaries

The neighborhood is bordered on the west by Downing Street, on the north by 23rd Avenue, on the east by York Street, and on the south by Colfax Avenue

Colfax Avenue

Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east–west through the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. In the local street system, it lies 15 blocks north of the zero...

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Landmarks

17th Avenue and 18th Avenue cross the neighborhood from east to west and are busy, one-way streets that serve as arterials to bring people in and out of downtown Denver. City Park

City Park, Denver

City Park is an urban park and neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. The park is and is located in east-central Denver. The park contains the Denver Zoo, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Ferril and Duck Lakes, and a boathouse. City Park is also the name of the neighborhood that contains the...

 is on the eastern border of the neighborhood. The neighborhood is dominated by single-family houses, apartment blocks, and medical offices. Two of Denver's major hospitals are in the neighborhood: Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital is a hospital in the City Park West neighborhood of Denver....

 and Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center

Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center is a hospital in the City Park West neighborhood of Denver. In speech and in writing, the hospital is referred to informally by its initials: P/SL.-History:...

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