Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Access to Foods

What Does the “Failure” of the Ban on Fast-Food Restaurants in South L.A. to Curb Obesity Really Tell Us?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 27, 2015 | 13 Comments

“Yea, everything [is] OK…I hope all is well with you. I’m upset right now & crying because I’m starving. Have no food.” I stared at the message on my phone. I had just checked in with 19-year-old South L.A. resident Shanique* to see how she was. I had interviewed her earlier in the summer and […]

Learning How to Make a Neighborhood Market a Place for Healthy Food

By Rafael Cardenas | May 2, 2013

Last week, hosted in a small campus in Boyle Heights, the Healthy Neighborhood Market Network (HNMN) held a Neighborhood Market Training, an informative workshop program that helps our little corner markets put a focus on healthy foods from local farms for their customers. The plan is to put the fruits and vegetables in prominent views […]

The Good, Bad and Ugly of the New Trader Joes at Third and Fairfax

By Alexander Friedman | Jun 7, 2012 | 30 Comments

The grand opening of the new Trader Joe’s near the famous Grove and Third Street Farmers Market took place in mid-May. The intersection is now a welcoming site! The grocery market certainly pleases the eye more than what stood on the site previously: a vacant lot, and occasionally Christmas tree field. Los Angeles is flourishing with […]

The Role Neighborhood Markets Can Play in Making Public Transportation Convenient: Lessons from London

By David Murphy | Nov 4, 2011 | 8 Comments

David Murphy is President of Angelenos Against Gridlock (http://www.endinggridlock.org), which is working to support a fully built out rail transit system and safer bike infrastructure, and striving to help make transit and biking cool. Clickhere (http://www.endinggridlock.org/press) to read other recent columns by David, who also blogs athttp://endinggridlock.org and tweets at @EndingGridlock. On Wednesday night, I stopped in at the new […]