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Hyde Park, Los Angeles
Summary
Hyde Park is a neighborhood in the South region of Los Angeles, California. Formerly a separate city, it was consolidated with Los Angeles in 1923.
The commercial corridor along Crenshaw Boulevard is known as "the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles". Destination Crenshaw, is an open-air museum along Crenshaw Boulevard that celebrates African American history and culture.
Hyde Park is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles. It was "laid out as a town" in 1887 as a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Harbor Subdivision, which ran from Downtown Los Angeles to the port at Wilmington in a westward loop.
It was incorporated as a city in 1922 and had its own government. However, on May 17, 1923, its was consolidated with the larger city of Los Angeles after a favorable vote by Hyde Park residents. The city of Hyde Park was bordered by 60th Street on the north, Van Ness (now 8th Avenue) on the east, Florence Avenue on the south, and West Boulevard on the west.
Hyde Park's street and other boundaries are: West Vernon Avenue on the north, South Arlington/Van Ness Avenues on the east and the Los Angeles city boundary on the south and west.
According to the Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times, Hyde Park touches Leimert Park on the north, Vermont Square on the northeast, Chesterfield Square on the east, Manchester Square on the southeast; Inglewood on the south and southwest, and View Park-Windsor Hills on the west and northwest.
A total of 36,635 people lived in the neighborhood, according to the 2000 U.S. census—averaging , about the same as the population density in the city as a whole. The median age was 31, also about the same as the rest of the city.
In 2000, there were 2,474 families headed by single parents, or 28.5%, a rate that was high for the county and the city. There were 2,237 veterans, or 8% of the population, considered high when compared with the city overall.
Hyde Park residents aged 25 and older holding a four-year degree amounted to 12.
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