It is difficult to pinpoint the precise moment when Los Angeles stopped giving a damn what you or we or anyone else had to say it was a slow but important finding of self, taking place quietly over the past decade. A decade that saw the city grow in all sorts of exciting and impressive ways. A decade of building real transit. (For the first time in generations, you will soon be able to travel by rail between Downtown and the Santa Monica; soon after, expect a subway stop on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.) Of creating truly walkable neighborhoods. The melting pot actually began melting, bubbling over messily and rather beautifully all over every aspect of city life. (Not coincidentally, suddenly here in the land of salad and iced tea, people truly learned how to eat. And to love eating.) Oh, and just for fun? A few more people squeezed into the city, now overall the most densely packed in the country. Los Angeles, quite simply, is ready to challenge anyone. New York, watch your back. Here are four LA places to get up to speed.
DOWNTOWN
To see what we mean, you have to start Downtown. Its a generic umbrella term for a wildly diverse group of neighborhoods that comprise the citys core; in these pedestrian-friendly streets with their incredible Art Deco architecture and ample transit and tons of people-watching, you can spend a week experiencing a Los Angeles that many outsiders assumed didnt even exist. Many locals didnt either, until about 10 years ago, so dont feel bad...
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Los Angeles is the future - NYPOST.com
to whoever got that deal to fall through
off this in a few years.
