MacArthur Park (originally Westlake Park) [2] is a park dating back to the late 19th century in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In the early 1940s, it was renamed after General Douglas MacArthur, and later designated City of …

Westlake/MacArthur Park station is an underground rapid transit, known locally as a subway, station on the B Line and D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.

2018年1月19日 · West Lake Park (later MacArthur Park) from Seventh Street and Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, photographed around 1930. It reigned for a half-century as a grand setting for outdoor concerts...

2013年5月17日 · In 1885, an unwanted block of city land sat stinking near Los Angeles' western edge, the natural beauty of its lake and marshes marred by decades of use as a city dump. It might have then seemed an unlikely location for one of the city's first parks.

Generous application of fertilizer and sweat turned the eyesore into Westlake Park, a handsome civic asset. A boating lake attracted visitors to Westlake Park, then on the remote west side of the city. It became a popular recreation spot.

2025年2月3日 · Sidelined vendors have been protesting now and then near the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station.

2019年8月21日 · We'll be blunt: MacArthur Park looks like a scary place. The Westlake park has found itself in the middle of turf wars for decades now—a temporary drain of its lake in the '70s famously...

The Times notes that its entry on Westlake includes the neighborhoods of Historic Filipinotown, Lafayette Park, MacArthur Park and Temple–Beaudry. [42] In Mapping L.A., Westlake is flanked by Silver Lake to the north, Echo Park to the northeast and east, Downtown to the southeast, Pico-Union to the south and southwest and Koreatown to the west.

One of Los Angeles’ oldest green spaces, MacArthur Park, is on its way to being made whole again. A multi-year effort has started to reconnect the 35-acre recreation area that’s currently...

2021年10月10日 · MacArthur Park and its scenic pond began to enchant visitors late in the 19th century. Then called Westlake Park, the Los Angeles Times observed in 1891, that it was "a pretty, breezy spot. The lake is well provided with boats, which are liberally patronized, and a band plays once a week."

Located in Los Angeles. It is served by Los Angeles Metro Rail B Line, Los Angeles Metro Rail D Line. Real time departures available. Nearby destinations include MacArthur Park, Lafayette Park (Los Angeles). Bus and more to Westlake/MacArthur Park Station...

The centerpiece of MacArthur Park is its 14ft-deep lake. Originally a swamp, the lake reached 6th St before the extension of Wilshire Blvd sliced right through it in the 1930s, leading to the draining of its northern half.

You'll find no fresh air in this once-beautiful park, only the putrid stench of human waste and stagnant water. The parks administration has clearly abandoned this property as there is no evidence whatsoever of any upkeep of the facilities. If any sanitation regulations exist, nobody's enforcing them.

The Westlake/MacArthur Park B (Red) and D (Purple) Line Station opened in 1993 and connects patrons between North Hollywood, Koreatown and downtown Los Angeles. The station site is approximately 1.8 acres in size and includes a public plaza, the station entrance, and a vacant lot currently used for parking.

Westlake/MacArthur Park station is an underground rapid transit, known locally as a subway, station on the B Line and D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.

2 天之前 · For more than a century, MacArthur Park, just west of Downtown Los Angeles, has been an urban oasis for residents of the surrounding Westlake District and the wider city. But in recent years, MacArthur Park has also become synonymous with fentanyl, the synthetic opioid that can be 50 times more powerful than heroin. ...

Westlake/MacArthur Park station is an underground rapid transit, known locally as a subway, station on the B Line and D Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.

Westlake/MacArthur Park was the original western terminus of Red Line subway when it opened on January 30, 1993. The station was a terminus for the short 4.4 mile initial segment of this subway line for over 3 years until July 13, 1996 when the line was finally extended to Wilshire/Western that was the original Red Line and has now been renamed ...

2020年1月28日 · First look at 100-unit affordable housing complex headed for Westlake. Across the street from MacArthur Park, the project would replace 36 rent-stabilized units.

2025年1月23日 · The shooting is the latest among the crime problems that have beset MacArthur Park. The area is known for gang violence and drug use , much of it by the homeless people living in and around the park.

Commonly referred to as MacArthur Park after the green space and lake at the heart of the community, the 2.72-square-mile neighbourhood is a low-income area in Central LA. So what makes this area unique? The delicate balance that must be maintained to keep Westlake in order.