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Crenshaw Boulevard
Former name(s)Angeles Mesa Drive
NamesakeGeorge L. Crenshaw
Length23.46 mi (37.76 km)
LocationLos Angeles, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes California, U.S.
Nearest metro station
North end
Los Angeles
South endBurrell Lane in Rancho Palos Verdes

Crenshaw Boulevard is a north-south

Los Angeles, California, United States, that runs through Crenshaw and other neighborhoods along a 23-mile (37.76 km) route in the west-central part of the city.[1]

Angeles Mesa Drive, as shown (7) on this 1927 Los Angeles Times map, was the original name of Crenshaw Boulevard south of Adams Street.
Crenshaw Boulevard at Stocker Street, 2016

The street extends between Wilshire Boulevard in Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles, on the north and Rolling Hills, on the south. Crenshaw marks the eastern boundaries of Torrance, and Hawthorne and the western border of Gardena.

The commercial corridor in the Hyde Park neighborhood is known as "the heart of African American commerce in Los Angeles".[2][3]

History

Crenshaw Boulevard was named after

banker and Los Angeles real estate developer George Lafayette Crenshaw who also developed the Lafayette Square.[4]

The southern end of Crenshaw Boulevard was at

Adams Street until 1916-1918, when the road was extended between Adams on the north and Slauson Avenue on the south. The extension saved three miles (4.8 km) in travel over the nearest through road (Western Avenue) and five miles (8.0 km) over the nearest paved road (Vermont Avenue).[5][6]

The street became a major transportation route with tracks for the

Florence Ave on the south. With the abandonment of the streetcar system in the 1950s, the railway median was narrowed, the driving lanes improved and the street reconfigured for automobiles, buses and trucks.[9]
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Revitalization project

Many local residents were disappointed that 71 mature street-line trees were cut down in 2012 to make way for the

pocket parks, outdoor sculptures, murals, street furniture, and landscaping.[17]

Malcolm X Route

In 2023, a five-mile stretch (8.0 km) of Crenshaw Boulevard in

Leimert Park, transacting the Rosa Parks Freeway, Obama Boulevard, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and Nipsey Hussle Square, was designated Malcolm X Route in honor of the minister and civil rights leader.[18][19]

Transportation

Main articles:
Metro Local, C Line (Los Angeles Metro), E Line (Los Angeles Metro), and K Line (Los Angeles Metro)

Metro Local

Expo/Crenshaw
station at the intersection with Exposition Boulevard.

In the Crenshaw district, Crenshaw Boulevard and

LADOT trolleys, buses and a light rail subway line Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
bus lines that are:

Crenshaw Boulevard is also briefly served in the Crenshaw district by the following LA Metro lines:

  • Metro Local Line 102 - LAX City Bus Center to Huntington Park via La Tijera Boulevard, Stocker Street, Exposition Boulevard and Jefferson Boulevard
  • Metro Local Line 105 - West Hollywood - Vernon via
    Barack Obama Boulevard
    and Vernon Avenue

The Metro K Line runs along the Crenshaw Boulevard alignment from the E Line to 67th Street, serving three more additional stations:

LADOT

Crenshaw Boulevard is served by these

LADOT Dash
lines:

Notable landmarks

References

  1. ^ Christopher Hawthorne, "Crenshaw Boulevard comes to a crossroads", Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2012.
  2. ^ Robinson-Jacobs, Karen (May 2, 2001). "Noticing a Latin Flavor in Crenshaw". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  3. ^ Meares, Hadley (May 17, 2019). "How Crenshaw became black LA's main street". Curbed LA. Retrieved May 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Parra, Alvaro (October 23, 2014). "Crenshaw Boulevard: Cruising Through the Decades". KCET. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Road Project Is in Peril," Los Angeles Times August 20, 1916, image 23
  6. ^ "After Many Delays," Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1918, image 82
  7. ^ "Los Angeles Railway in Brief - Map of Streetcar Routes". Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  8. ^ "5 Line". Archived from the original on January 3, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2013.
  9. ^ a b Crenshaw Boulevard Streetscape Plan (PDF) (Report). Los Angeles City Planning. March 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 24, 2015. Retrieved June 5, 2017.
  10. ^ a b Jennings, Angel "Tree removal along Crenshaw has residents stumped" Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2014
  11. ^ Zahniser, David (May 9, 2019). "South L.A. was promised a Target. Millions of dollars later, it has a vacant lot". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
  12. ^ "Trees Return Along Shuttle Endeavour's Route to Science Center". NBC Los Angeles. January 18, 2013. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  13. ^ Barragan, Bianca (March 31, 2014). "Crenshaw Boulevard Losing Even More Trees For Crenshaw Line". Curbed LA. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
  14. ^ "Crenshaw Corridor Specific Plan" (PDF). City of Los Angeles. April 19, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
  15. ^ Dorsey, Danielle (February 28, 2024). "8 Black-owned spots that define the Crenshaw corridor". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
  16. ^ Flores, Jessica (March 2, 2020). "Actress Issa Rae at Destination Crenshaw groundbreaking: 'We're not going anywhere'". Curbed LA. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  17. ^ Dambrot, Shana Nys (November 14, 2018). "Destination Crenshaw: Black Los Angeles Greets the World". LA Weekly. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
  18. ^ Jackson-Fossett, Cora (May 25, 2023). "Malcolm X Route Designated in South L.A. Along Crenshaw Blvd". Los Angeles Sentinel.
  19. ^ "LA dedicates portion of Crenshaw Boulevard in honor of Malcolm X for his civil rights contributions". ABC7 Los Angeles. May 21, 2023. Retrieved September 3, 2023.
  20. ^ Cosgrove, Jaclyn (April 9, 2019). "Crenshaw and Slauson intersection to be named in honor of Nipsey Hussle". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
  21. ^ "Game Over For Holiday Bowl?". November 21, 2008. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  22. ^ "Monument Search Results Page". Cityplanning.lacity.org. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  23. ^ "SpaceX erects historic 16-story-tall rocket booster outside its Hawthorne headquarters". daily breeze.com. Retrieved June 8, 2017.

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