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Skid Row

Skid Row is the unofficial name for a neighborhood in officially known as Central City East. Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless population since at least the 1930s.
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  • Type: Quarter with 17,700 residents
  • Description: neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Also known as: “Skid Row, CA”, “Skid Row, California”, and “Skid Row, Los Angeles”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Los Angeles City Hall and Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

Town hall
Photo: Brion VIBBER, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of , , and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council.

Museum
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The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art with two locations in Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in , near the .

Hotel
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The is an affordable housing complex in . It opened on December 20, 1924, as a hotel, but declined during the Great Depression and subsequent decades.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toy District and Gallery Row.

Neighborhood
The is a 12-block area in eastern , bounded by Los Angeles Street on the west, Third and Fifth streets on the north and south and San Pedro Street on the east.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , designated by the city council in 2003 to promote the concentration of art galleries along Main and Spring Streets.

Quarter
Photo: Bobak, CC BY-SA 2.5.
, also known as Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.

Skid Row

Latitude
34.04406° or 34° 2′ 39″ north
Longitude
-118.24385° or 118° 14′ 38″ west
Population
17,700
Open location code
85632QV4+JF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3381399786
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Wiki­data ID
Q1057444
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Satellite Map

Discover Skid Row from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Skid Row” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سكيد رو”
  • Bulgarian: “Скид Роу (Лос Анжелис)”
  • Bulgarian: “Скид Роу”
  • Chinese: “穷街”
  • Dutch: “Skid Row, Los Angeles”
  • Faroese: “Skid Row”
  • French: “Skid Row”
  • German: “Skid Row”
  • Greek: “Σκιντ Ρόου (γειτονιά στο Λος Άντζελες)”
  • Greek: “Σκιντ Ρόου”
  • Hebrew: “סקיד רו”
  • Italian: “Skid Row”
  • Japanese: “スキッド・ロウ”
  • Kölsch: “Skid Row”
  • Korean: “스키드 로”
  • Macedonian: “Скид Роу”
  • Persian: “اسکید رو، لس آنجلس”
  • Persian: “اسکید رو”
  • Polish: “Skid Row”
  • Portuguese: “Skid Row”
  • Scots: “Skid Row”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سکید روو، لوس آنجلس”
  • Spanish: “Skid Row (Los Ángeles)”
  • Spanish: “Skid Row”
  • Swedish: “Skid Row, Los Angeles”
  • Swedish: “Skid Row”
  • Thai: “สกิดโรว์ (ลอสแอนเจลิส)”
  • Thai: “สกิดโรว์”
  • Turkish: “Skid Row, Los Angeles”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Flower District and Historic Core.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include James M Wood Community Center and San Julian Park.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Skid Row”. Photo: Jorobeq, CC BY 2.5.