Skid Row, one of LA's poorest communities, sits in the shadow of these architectural landmarks.
The restaurant is part of a new wave of businesses moving into the area around Skid Row.
Anita Nelson works for SRO Housing, one of the non-profits that buys and refurbishes SRO hotels in Skid Row.
But what you saw there, in terms of your ride-along, was representative of the officers in the skid row area.
Yesterday, the LA Times ran a front page article about the increasing number of homeless people on skid row.
Eventually I lost everything and ended up living in a cardboard box near skid row in L.A., shunned and a goner.
And Los Angeles's Skid Row, in a way, compels them to be not only police officers but social workers, counselors, housing advisors.
Indeed, some of his projects bankrolling a catalogue, selling toys and art made by people from Los Angeles's Skid Row seem to ask for it.
Skid Row is a dumping ground for inmates released from the nearby county jail, and it's a place where the sirens never stop screaming.
Rising real estate prices make Skid Row increasingly attractive to developers.
Most of Skid Row's inhabitants live in single-room-occupancy hotels, or SROs.
This weekend, NPR's Ina Jaffe reported on Los Angeles's Skid Row and some of the innovative methods police used to serve thousands of homeless people who lived there.
Skid Row is the most visible example and the most significant disgrace in this city - that for many years that area was neglected politically, economically, every which way.
Logic dictated looking at Macau tourism data, but the existing hotels in Macau were like skid row compared to the ultra luxurious Venetian, so the existing data would identify the wrong customers.
If you are one of those who rails against the short-termism and excessive risk-taking of some banks and finance businesses, you might note that a public sector financial institution, the Debt Management Office, has taken a reassuringly long-term approach to managing the UK government's debts - and without its prudence, we might all be in Queer Street or Skid Row by now.
In recent years, the pawn industry, once saddled with a skid-row reputation, has targeted a more mainstream and sometimes downright wealthy clientele by offering to deliver short-term cash with speed and discretion.
WSJ: SmartMoney: Hocking the Jewels: Pawnshops Dipping Into Deeper Pockets
The Mets' five-game skid is their longest since losing six in a row April 25-30.
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