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The community is relatively square in shape, bordered by the communities of Reseda and Winnetka to the south, Chatsworth to the west, Porter Ranch to the north-west, Granada Hills to the north-east, North Hills to the east, and Van Nuys to the south-east. Major thoroughfares include Roscoe Boulevard, Tampa Avenue, Reseda Boulevard, and Zelzah Avenue, as well as Chatsworth, Devonshire, Lassen, Plummer, and Nordhoff Streets. Northridge is home to some racial tension, somewhat a result of high Latino migration into the area and high emigration of middle-class whites. Northridge Fashion Center has become a flash point for these tensions at times, an uneasy middle ground between a relatively low income area on the southern part of the city and the relatively upper-middle class areas north. This is a mirror image of a similar phenomenon in southern San Fernando Valley communities such as Woodland Hills , where "south of the boulevard" is often equated with wealth and "north of the boulevard" with crowded apartments and run-down strip malls. The 1994 Northridge Earthquake is named for the community based on early estimates of the location of the quake's Epicenter ; however further refinements showed it to be technically in neighboring Reseda . The area was also heavily damaged in the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake . In 1994, the Northridge Little League Baseball team won the United States Little League Championship game, but lost the World Series game to the international team from Coquivacoa-Maracaibo, Venezuela . INTERESTING FACTS
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