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unusual facts about Boyle Heights


Channa Horwitz

Horwitz was born in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, on May 21, 1932; her father was an electrician and inventor.


Elyse Pignolet

She has also collaborated with Sandow Birk on three public projects in Los Angeles, CA, including the Tarzana Metro Station on the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Orange Line, as well as the LAPD Hollenbeck Division Police Station murals in Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles.

Toberman House

Founded in 1903 in the name of two-term Mayor James R. Toberman, Toberman house is the oldest charity in the city of Los Angeles, and the oldest United Methodist mission project in the Western U.S. It was originally located in Echo Park, but moved to Boyle Heights in 1917, then San Pedro in 1937.


see also

East Los Angeles

Eastside Los Angeles, a geographic region that includes three neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles— Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights—and the unincorporated community listed below