Echo Park: Greatest Neighborhood in Los Angeles, Which Has 87 of Them

i really enjoy how seriously everyone took this article in zee comments gawwwd

ps: For the record, I like fat chicks in tight clothes when I'm drunk, so I don't discriminate against fat people. Those who do should be ashamed of themselves!

I'm tired of gentrification...... It's funny how people gain interest in a neighborhood once upwardly mobile white people move in....displacing the people who have lived there for decades and who no one gave a fuck about because they were poor. Everyone from developers, to politicians, to real estate hacks and business owners are only interested in taking advantage of lower property values in order to make a fast buck.... The general ambivalence towards long time residents is disgusting....The yuppies pretend like no one has lived there prior to them, and when those residents are mentioned, it's in terms of them being a nuisance or an impediment to gentrification.

The only thing dumber than LA Weekly reporters are LA Weekly readers. Yes, a stupid article but the comments are even worse. The author's mention of "normal weight hipsters" wasn't referring to overweight people but instead to skinny hipsters. He/she is stating that Echo Park hipsters are of "normal" weight meaning they are not waifs. Some people are just looking to be offended, well you are wrong again!

Is it just me or did this part come off as incredibly racist?: "An un-sourced line in Echo Park's Wikipedia entry calls it "one of the most diversified communities in the United States" -- but it's gentrified just enough so as not to make you afraid of getting stabbed when you stumble home from The Gold Room or The Echo late at night."

Don't worry everyone! The white people have forced the people of color out, so you aren't gonna get stabbed!

I knew it!

SC Wong

Really all the cholos are gone? Then you haven't driven by sunset and Vermont. I was their to visit my awuela on Sunday. It's still a shit hole but with wanna be hipsters. Funny is u don't see hipsters walking after dark. Take a little walk up Elysian park at 10pm let us know what a experience it was.

Poor Man's Highland Park already has a train stop on the beautiful Gold Line!  

but they have the worst Los Burritos i have ever eaten at.

"An un-sourced line in Echo Park's Wikipedia entry calls it "one of the most diversified communities in the United States" -- but it's gentrified just enough so as not to make you afraid of getting stabbed when you stumble home from The Gold Room or The Echo late at night."

Unless, of course, you actually get stabbed in Echo Park walking near the Gold Room or The Echo or Sunset Beer:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/echo-park-stabbing-video_n_1559598.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_9RHpvJfI

Love it!!

i think Silverlake is prettier

all the cholo's and chola's are gone! thanks hipsters

Born and raised!

Nobody^

No body asked^

I used to live in Echo Park, I miss it, I now live in Paris, France

LA WEAKly hyping up and helping little trust-fund kids and LA transplants feel even more pretentious

My blood pressure is quite healthy, thanks so much for your concern. My concern is why people think it's okay to make jokes at the expense of overweight and unattractive people. There is a prejudice against fat people that seems to be acceptable in our society, and it's not. Would it be okay if the writer made jokes about how hipsters get a pass because they're mostly all white? Or, how about because they are mostly not disabled? No, it wouldn't. You can make (unfunny) jokes about other things...like yes, that they made wearing jeans in your size trendy again.

The hipster "east side".

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You guys are offended too easily. The stabs at fatties and uglies are obviously humour. You're increasing your already dangerously high blood pressure for no reason

Gentrification being helped along by the weekly jeez!

Greatest neighborhood in L.A is which ever one you call home period.

love me some Echo Park.

Thanks for the nod to my neighborhood... Oh.. and for the highly offensive garbage that riddled the entire 2nd page. Awesome. Will you be putting up "no uglies, no fatties" signs all over town, or will you commission some other tool to put it up as killer street art?

echo park has an immigration problem, and it has nothing to do with mexicans.

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Gentrification Hipstertown Sceenstermania

Check this out Michelle

"But give hipsters their due: they are (mostly) attractive and at normal body weight"...what's that supposed to mean? That anyone not attractive or what you consider a 'normal' body weight doesn't deserve their due? or belong in our neighborhood?

Gentrification doing big thangs.

"The 5, The 2, The 110 and The 101. That makes for a quick jaunt to the Arclight in Hollywood, The Americana in Glendale, (referred to, affectionately, as The Armenia)" Cracking up. Funny, but true.

It's slowly getting ruined.