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 * Part of the East LA region of the County of Los Angeles.

The Eastside is a region the City of Los Angeles that is part of the greater region of East LA. It includes the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, Montecito Heights, Hermon, Mount Washington, Cypress Park, Glassell Park, Highland Park, Garvanza, Eagle Rock and Atwater Village. All of these neighborhoods are east of the Los Angeles River. A further designation are the neighborhoods north of the Arroyo Seco, which are referred to as Northeast Los Angeles.

Understand
The Eastside of the City of Los Angeles was originally settled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains relics of a number of architectural styles, chiefly Craftsman, Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival. For much of its history, it contained many of Los Angeles' ethnoburbs. Lincoln Heights once had a substantial Italian-American population, and Boyle Heights had substantial Jewish, Eastern European, and Japanese populations. The Eastside has always had a substantial Hispanic population, and today Mexican-American is the predominant ethnicity on the Eastside. Many prominent Latino demonstrations have taken place on the Eastside. The Eastside is also the epicenter of the various Latino gangs in Los Angeles, particularly in Boyle Heights and Glassell Park (The Avenues). Topigraphically, much of the Eastside consists of rolling hills. Many of the streets on the Eastside are at incline, and there are several instances of stairways.

Get in
Six freeways serve the Eastside of Los Angeles. Interstate 5 parallels the Los Angeles River in Atwater Village, Glassell Park, Cypress Park and, Lincoln Heights, before veering east in Boyle Heights. U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 60 also have a few exits in Boyle Heights before ending at the East Los Angeles Interchange. Interstate 10 runs for a few miles between Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights. California State Route 110 (the Arroyo Seco Parkway) parallels the Arroyo Seco through Northeast LA, as does California State Route 2.

The Eastside and Northeast Los Angeles are served by the Metro Gold Line, which also serves Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles. The Gold Line has four stops in Boyle Heights (at Utah Street, Boyle Avenue, Soto Street, and Indiana Street), one stop serving Lincoln Heights and Cypress Park at Avenue 26, two stops in Mount Washington (at French Avenue and Museum Drive), and one stop in Highland Park at Avenue 57.

See

 * A collection of historic house and buildings from the late 19th century moved from other parts of Los Angeles to a museum on the Arroyo Seco.  Features guided tours of those buildings, often by people in Victorian dress.
 * . Arroyo stone house and gardens designed and built by Charles Lummis, author/journalist of the American West and founder of the Southwest Museum. Listed on the NRHP.
 * . Located in the former Highland Park Police Station, it displays the history of the LAPD from its 1869 beginnings
 *  Extensive collection of American Indian art and artifacts.  Currently a subsidiary of the Autry Museum and undergoing major renovations.

Do

 * An urban nature center showcasing the native habitat that used to fill the Los Angeles Basin.

Eat

 * Famous for tostadas and burritos, in particular the Hollenbeck Burrito and the "Manuel Special" five-pound burrito.

Drink

 * One of the only breweries based in the city of Los Angeles.
 * The oldest winery in the City of Los Angeles, founded 1917, and the only winery operating in Los Angeles from the 1930s to the 2000s.