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Recently, the city has been heavily featured in statewide and national news for the discovery of an Alligator within the heavily urban municipality's Machado Lake. LOCATION Harbor City is located in the southern part of the city of Los Angeles, and part of the South Bay region. It is bordered on the north by Sepulveda Boulevard , the east by Figueroa Street , the south by Anaheim Street, and to the west by Western Avenue . A smaller, more afluent section of Harbor City is also bordered by Anaheim Street to the north and east, Narbonne to the east, and 260th Street to the south. DEMOGRAPHICS As of the Census of 2000 , there are 24,640 people residing within the boundaries of Harbor City. The racial makeup of the city is 46.40% White , 13.90% African American , 0.70% Native American , 13.30% Asian , 0.90% Pacific Islander , 19.90% from Other Races , and 5.00% from two or more races. 43.30% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. HISTORY Harbor City stands as a testament to the ambitious designs of the Anglo-American creators of the modern metropolis of Los Angeles. By the turn of the century, city leaders had decided that it would be in the best interests of the city if the port and harbor areas were directly annexed. The independent cities of San Pedro (founded in the late 1700s) and Wilmington (founded in 1858 by Phineas Banning ) were the independent establishments of what would be come the Port Of Los Angeles . Following the establishment of San Pedro as the main source for the port over Santa Monica in 1897 , Los Angeles city leaders argued that direct control over the port areas would be mutually beneficial by providing San Pedro and Wilmington with larger funding and in turn allowing the city to garner more revenue via the increasing port trade. The two cities were initially reluctant to join; in 1906 , frustrated by the indecision of San Pedro and Wilmington leaders, the city of Los Angeles purchased a long and narrow swath of land that connected then- South Los Angeles to San Pedro, naming the two regions Harbor Gateway and Harbor City . City leaders then threatened to built a new port in Harbor City if the recalcitrant towns would not acquiesce to annexation. Both agreed by 1909 . In return, the city of Los Angeles elected to keep Harbor City as a land-locked part of the main city, linking the metropolis to its newly won ocean trading centers. To this day, Harbor City remains an amusing irony—it is not a city and contains no harbor (that honor goes to San Pedro, Wilmington, and Long Beach ). .]] LANDMARKS Los Angeles Harbor College , one of two Community Colleges in the South Bay area along with Torrance's El Camino College , straddles the border between Harbor City and Wilmington and looks over nearby Machado Lake. Harbor City also hosts two parks, the Kenneth Malloy Memorial Park, which is home to Machado Lake, and Harbor City Park, on Vermont Blvd and Pacific Coast Highway. REGGIE THE ALLIGATOR The Kenneth Malloy Memorial Park and Machado Lake have seen a marked increase in news activity this past summer with the sighting of 'Reggie the Alligator ,' a six to ten foot long alligator released into the lake illegally in 2005. By August 2005 , city officials had indefinitely cordoned off the lake and began to attempt to capture and relocate the nonnative species. All attempts, which included hiring 'wranglers' from as far away as Florida and Colorado failed, and Reggie was seen to be a local folk hero, appearing in summer news stories in the weeks before Hurricane Katrina 's domination of headlines. As of December 21 , the alligator had not yet been located, although a smaller alligator had been found in a nearby flood channel, suitably alarming several local residents; the search was suspended for the winter and will not resume until Spring 2006. {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS |
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