Elysian Valley, 1924, from Taylor Yard. A few years ago, Rey Dominguez sent me this photo of his neighborhood he found online. Rey had ...
Showing posts with label air quality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air quality. Show all posts
Elysian Valley: In Memoriam, Rey Dominguez, Community Activist, 1944-2012
Elysian Valley, 1924, from Taylor Yard. A few years ago, Rey Dominguez sent me this photo of his neighborhood he found online. Rey had ...
Allesandro Way: Future Sound Walls, The "East Berlin/Escape From New York Aesthetic"
Photo September 2012. Artist's rendering of a 12-16' tall sound wall on Allesandro Way, looking north from Oak Glen, on the Silver ...
2 Freeway Terminus: Sound Walls
Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 10, 2012. Unless homes are at or below eye level with the 2 Freeway, sound walls will do nothing to reduce ...
State Route 2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Community Meeting TONIGHT
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 12, 2009. Stenciled art made from 4 months of exposure to particulate matter, 50' from the 2 Freeway...
2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Why We Care So Much About The Trees
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 1, 2009. Trees on the Silver Lake side of the 2 Freeway would all be cut down and we would get 8-16' ...
2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Meeting Wednesday
Photo: Futterer, Holyland Exhibition, 1962. Without trees, you can see how narrow the slope is between the 2 Freeway and adjacent street...
Corralitas Drive: Flashback Friday, Living Next To A Giant Grading Project
Photo: Kleven, 1961. Grading for the 2 Freeway obscured a once pleasant view from the lower part of Corralitas Drive. (Click on photo t...
2 Freeway Terminus Redesign: Get Ready For More Traffic & Fewer Trees, Meeting Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Photo: Diane Edwardson, April 10, 2012. Homes on Corralitas Drive are less than 50' from the 2 Freeway, yet the EIR for the Terminus...
Monte Sano: Why Wouldn't You Want To Live Next Door To A Major Construction Site?
Photo: Diane Edwardson, February 9, 2012. Neighbors of the old Monte Sano Hospital Site at Waverly & Glendale Blvd are learning firs...
NorthEast LA Residents For Clean Air: Metrolink Community Meeting TONIGHT*
Click on flyer to enlarge. Click here for a printable version. Elysian Valley & Cypress Park neighbors have decided their communi...
Metrolink Rail Yard: Waiting For Improvements, Community Meeting Thursday
Photo: Diane Edwardson, January 25, 2012, 8:05AM. That's not fog, it was a crystal clear, bone dry morning. (Click on photo to enlarg...
Northeast LA Residents For Clean Air: Metrolink Service Yard Community Meeting Thursday July 26, 2012
Back in January, then Metrolink CEO John Fenton made a bunch of promises to clean up Metrolink's Central Service Facility's act. ...
Corralitas Drive: I Hate The 4th Of July
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 4th, 2012. Illegal fireworks filled the sky over Elysian Valley & Glassell Park last night. (Click on ...
Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: Dirt Blowing Across 2 Freeway Every Afternoon
Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 3, 2012. By 1PM, the winds pick up and I can taste the dirt blowing in my direction from the controversial 1...
Glendale Blvd: DWP's Piles Of Dirt*
Photo: Jerome Courshon, April 19, 2012. It seems like everything on the northeast end of Silver Lake is under construction these days. The...
Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract: Grading Hell
Photo: Russell Bates, April 18, 2012. Grading began this week for 2400 Allesandro. The permits are listed under "2055 Elmoran." ...
Semi Tropic Not-So-Spiritualists' Tract: Earth Moving Started At 7AM Wednesday
Photo: Jonthan Vandiveer, April 18, 2012. It's legal for them to operate the bulldozer before 8AM, M-F, because we failed to scrutinize...
Semi Tropic Hell Spiritualists' Tract: Earth Moving Started Today*
Photo: Gary Vlahakis, April 17, 2012. A huge bulldozer started digging into the hillside in the controversial 16-lot subdivision in the Se...
Dodger Stadium: Mother Of All Grading Projects
Photo: Antonio Futterer, Holyland Exhibition Collection, 1960. With all the talk about large grading projects in the neighborhood lately, I...
2 Freeway Terminus: Redesign Update
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 1, 2009. Say good-bye to those trees on the sides of the 2 Freeway if the sound walls ever get put in on Alles...
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