That said, when I was in LA I was always, always waiting for some New Yorker to ask “what’s Echo Park got that Brooklyn doesn’t?”, just so I could respond “The Dodgers?”

(Lore is that LA destroyed a thriving Latino community in Chavez Ravine to build Dodger Stadium. That’s not true, they destroyed it to build public housing, but then didn’t because that’s communism. Then later hey, there’s all this open space going to waste & a desire to show off that LA Is A Real City Now)