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GEOGRAPHY AND TRANSPORTATION El Sereno sits atop the Monterey Hills that separate the Los Angeles Basin from the San Gabriel Valley , and is the easternmost district in the city of Los Angeles. It is bordered by Monterey Hills and South Pasadena on the north, Alhambra on the east, University Hills on the southeast, City Terrace on the south, Boyle Heights on the southwest, Lincoln Heights on the west, and Montecito Heights on the northwest. Principal thoroughfares include Huntington Drive; Valley Boulevard; Eastern and Alhambra Avenues; and Soto Street. The district lies within ZIP Code 90032. HISTORY El Sereno was founded in 1905 as a working-class suburb of Los Angeles along the former Pacific Electric Railway line that ran in the median of Huntington Drive. Like most of East Los Angeles, it was extremely ethnically diverse until World War II and shortly thereafter, when most of its non- Mexican -descended population moved to newer suburbs in other parts of Greater Los Angeles . Gang s became a serious problem in the late 1970s. The Gentrification that has occurred in many of the districts east of the Los Angeles River has yet to occur to any significant degree in El Sereno, despite its proximity to affluent South Pasadena. El Sereno was once called Farmington. It is rumorered that the TV Show "The Shield" was based in this area. The northernmost segment of the Long Beach Freeway ( I-710 ) was intended by Caltrans to go through El Sereno, as well as South Pasadena. The popular association of the 710 controversy with South Pasadena is largely a result of that city's demographics (wealthy and white), even though construction of the freeway would result in nearly as many historic homes being demolished in El Sereno. EXTERNAL LINKS |