Melrose Hill, Los Angeles, California
Encyclopedia
Melrose Hill is a small neighborhood within the city of Los Angeles, California
, tucked away in an area of Hollywood near Hancock Park
.
Because a few residents of Melrose Hill did not want to join the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council (not wanting to deal with the label "East" Holywood, which recalls "East Los Angeles", and those few upper income residents on Melrose Hill street and Marathon street were worried about their property values), Melrose Hill is not part of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, which currently includes only neighborhoods north of the 101 freeway. However culturally and geographically, Melrose Hill is part of East Hollywood, and other maps showing the boundaries of East Hollywood, for example this map from the L.A. Times' website , includes all of Melrose Hill in East Hollywood.
Though the area's boundaries on Melrose Avenue
have recently been designated by small road signs, few outsiders are familiar with it by name and consider it part of either Little Armenia
or Koreatown
, regions which border it on the north and south respectively. In January 2003, Los Angeles
magazine deemed it one of the city's "10 Great Neighborhoods."
Restaurants and eateries and stores in Melrose Hill are usually described as locations in East Hollywood, not Hollywood.
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...
, tucked away in an area of Hollywood near Hancock Park
Hancock Park
Hancock Park is a park in the Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, area, which is the location of the La Brea Tar Pits, the George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art . The park does not, however, lie within the Hancock Park neighborhood which is...
.
Because a few residents of Melrose Hill did not want to join the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council (not wanting to deal with the label "East" Holywood, which recalls "East Los Angeles", and those few upper income residents on Melrose Hill street and Marathon street were worried about their property values), Melrose Hill is not part of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, which currently includes only neighborhoods north of the 101 freeway. However culturally and geographically, Melrose Hill is part of East Hollywood, and other maps showing the boundaries of East Hollywood, for example this map from the L.A. Times' website , includes all of Melrose Hill in East Hollywood.
Though the area's boundaries on Melrose Avenue
Melrose Avenue
Melrose Avenue is an internationally renowned shopping, dining and entertainment destination in Los Angeles that starts from Santa Monica Boulevard at the border between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood and ends at Lucille Avenue in Silver Lake...
have recently been designated by small road signs, few outsiders are familiar with it by name and consider it part of either Little Armenia
Little Armenia
Little Armenia can refer to:* Little Armenia, Los Angeles, California* The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, also known as Lesser Armenia...
or Koreatown
Koreatown
Koreatown is a term to describe a Korean ethnic enclave within a city or metropolitan area. Similar terms may include Little Seoul or Little Korea.-Beijing:There are more than 150,000 Koreans living in Beijing...
, regions which border it on the north and south respectively. In January 2003, Los Angeles
Los Angeles (magazine)
Los Angeles magazine is a monthly regional magazine of national stature. Published by Emmis Communications and produced monthly since the spring of 1961, LA Magazine is a combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design, the definitive resource...
magazine deemed it one of the city's "10 Great Neighborhoods."
Restaurants and eateries and stores in Melrose Hill are usually described as locations in East Hollywood, not Hollywood.
Education
Melrose Hill is zoned to schools in the Los Angeles USD.- Ramona Elementary School
- King Middle School
- John Marshall High SchoolJohn Marshall High School (Los Angeles, California)John Marshall High School is a high school located in the Los Feliz district of the City of Los Angeles at 3939 Tracy Street, in Los Angeles, California, USA.Marshall, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District...