Baldwin Village, Los Angeles

Baldwin Village
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
Street sign marking the border of the Baldwin Village neighborhood,located at the intersection of Rodeo Road and
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
Baldwin Village
Location within Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34°00′54″N 118°20′52″W / 34.0150°N 118.3478°W / 34.0150; -118.3478Coordinates: 34°00′54″N 118°20′52″W / 34.0150°N 118.3478°W / 34.0150; -118.3478
Country  United States
State  California
County Los Angeles
City Los Angeles
Time zone Pacific
Zip Code 90008
Area code(s) 323

Baldwin Village is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California.

Geography

Baldwin Village is bounded by Coliseum Street and La Brea Avenue. It is considered part of the Crenshaw District. It lies directly across the historic Village Green apartment complex.

History

Baldwin Village was developed in the early 1940s and 1950s by architect Clarence Stein, as an apartment complex for young families. Baldwin Village was occasionally called "The Jungle" by locals because of the tropical trees and foliage (such as palms, banana trees and begonias) that once thrived among the area's tropical-style postwar apartment buildings.[1] The Los Angeles City Council ostensibly changed the name in 1990, after many residents complained that it reinforced the neighborhood's image as a wild and menacing place. They officially renamed it Baldwin Village, to reflect the affluent and peaceful Baldwin Hills neighborhood nearby, one of the most affluent couples neighborhoods in Los Angeles .[2]

Redevelopment

Recently, NBA hall of famer Magic Johnson and others have begun revitalization plans for the area, which have already begun to boost the area economically and socially. While redevelopment has shown many successes, not all efforts have yielded results; development of Marlton Square, for instance, was stalled in bankruptcy after years of work and millions of dollars of public and private funds until 2012.

Kaiser Permanente

The neighborhood houses a state of the art 100,000 square foot Kaiser Permanente medical office building and outdoor plaza next to the village neighborhood, which opened on September 7, 2017.[3]

Education

Dorsey High School in February 2007

Residents of Baldwin Village are zoned to schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

Media

Film

Baldwin Village served as a location for the 1992 film White Men Can't Jump.[4] The neighborhood also appears in the 2001 film Training Day[5].

Television

It was also in episode 1 of Season 3 of the NBC and later TNT's Television series Southland.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Winton, Richard (May 19, 2011). "Baldwin Village drug trafficking gang targeted in raid led by federal, local authorities". L.A. Now. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  2. ↑ Hayasaki, Erika (September 30, 2006), Gang Violence Fuels Racial Tensions The fatal shooting of a 3-year-old girl in Baldwin Village escalates friction among blacks and Latinos in the neighborhood., Los Angeles Times
  3. ↑ "Care near you". thrive.kaiserpermanente.org. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  4. ↑ Cowan, Jared (27 March 2017). "Revisiting the Filming Locations of White Men Can't Jump 25 Years Later".
  5. ↑
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