Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Historic Preservation

Northeast Los Angeles' new Riverside Drive Bridge includes a protected bike-walk path. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

NELA’s Outsized New Riverside-Figueroa Bridge Speeds Car Traffic

By Joe Linton | Feb 3, 2017 | 19 Comments

The city of L.A. opened its new Riverside Drive Bridge, featuring a protected bikeway and roundabout. The project was praised for safety improvements, but the oversized project is really about moving more cars even faster.

Editorial: Respect Your Advisory Committee, Build a Safer Hyperion Bridge

By Joe Linton | Aug 12, 2014 | 8 Comments

There has been quite a bit of proverbial water under the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge. Under a great deal of community displeasure in 2013, the city of Los Angeles set aside an outdated bridge retrofit plan and formed an advisory committee to decide the future of the historic span. The 9-member Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct Improvement Project Community Advisory Committee […]

NELA’s Historic Riverside-Figueroa Bridge Being Demolished

By Joe Linton | Aug 6, 2014 | No Comments

An innovative proposal for re-use as a “landbridge” park could not save the Riverside-Figueroa Bridge. A lawsuit could not save it. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Landmark Number 908 is on its way down. The Riverside-Figueroa’s existing steel span structure dates to the late 1930s. The concrete-arched abutments date to the late 1920s. In the name of […]

Learn About “Hotel Mariachi” at a Book Signing at the Mariachi Festival This Weekend

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 19, 2013 | No Comments

If you’ve been to Mariachi Plaza, then you’ve seen the beautiful Boyle Hotel, or Hotel Mariachi, as it is known to many, that sits on the corner of 1st and Boyle. It was built in 1889 by a Croatian immigrant named George Gerscovich (who changed his name to Cummings) who came to California during the […]

City, Caltrans, Seek Feedback on North Spring Street Bridge Widening

By Damien Newton | Apr 26, 2011 | 3 Comments

(Yesterday, a new advertisement appeared in our sidebar advertising a public meeting on the North Spring Street Bridge Improvement project on Tuesday, May 10, at 6:00 P.M. at the Lincoln Heights Senior Citizen Center at 2323 Workman Avenue. Below is a summary of the project, most of which was written before the advertisement was placed. […]

Grant Opportunity Provides Chance to Preserve L.A. County’s Historic Transportation Corridors

By Angela Serratore | Oct 5, 2009 | 3 Comments

Palms Depot The National Trust For Historic Preservation announced last week that it would be creating a fund dedicated to supporting historic preservation projects across Los Angeles County. For those of us who work tirelessly to dispel the myth that preservation is the domain of grey-haired old ladies and the historic house museums they love; […]