GLASSELL PARK, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

'Glassell Park' is a neighborhood district in northeastern Los Angeles, California. Glassell Park is a community incorporated by the city of Los Angeles.

Contents

Geography

The Neighborhood

Local Information

Geography

Glassell Park is bordered by Atwater Village and Silver Lake on the west, the city of Glendale on the northeast, Elysian Park on the southwest, Cypress Park on the southeast, Mount Washington on the east, and Eagle Rock on the northeast. While somewhat indefinite, the district's boundaries are roughly the Glendale Freeway on the northwest, the Los Angeles River on the southwest, Division Street on the east, and El Paso Drive on the northeast. Major thoroughfares include Eagle Rock Boulevard and San Fernando Road.

The Neighborhood

Glassell Park is one of Los Angeles's older neighborhoods, having developed rapidly in the early 20th century along the northern section of the Los Angeles Railway's "5" line, built in 1907, which formerly ran in the median of Eagle Rock Boulevard. [1] Today it is largely working class, Latino, white, and Filipino.
Glassell Park has benefited from (also victimized by) the Southern California real estate boom that began in the early 2000s. The community has seen an influx of middle-class families moving into the neighborhood, attracted by its abundance of Craftsman homes and relatively low prices.
Glassell Park has two elementary schools Glassell Park Elementary School (which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in early 2007) and Fletcher Drive Elementary School.

Local Information

More local information can be found at the Glassell Park Improvement Association website.