@guest (#6): Silver Lake was a dump for decades after decades. But now that yuppie scumbags are forced out of westside, santa monica, etc. because they don’t have enough money, so they settle for Silver Lake. But the gangs and mexicans and lesbians are still there except the prices are inflated to bubble territories. Silver Lake is the most overrated ghetto on the east side. Nazi meeting at the Red Lion, Nymbies and Nymphos meeting across the street at the bar. Fucking galleries that wouldn’t know what art is if the naked mexicans enter the place with machine guns. Which by the way happens once a week. FUCK Silver Lake!
It is refreshing to see that affordable properties are coming on the market. Under $500,000 is a darn good deal for Silver Lake. When neigborhoods are just for the well to do they become gross. Until recently I lived in Silver Lake and noticed way more temper tantrums on the tight streets when one fancy car wouldn’t yield the right of way to another fancy car. In the good old days people shared the tiny roads of Silver Lake with a smile a nod and a wave. Not anymore! It is all about "me" and what I am entitled to becuase I am pretty and rich. I hope the Maltman Bungalows bring some nice down to earth people to Silver Lake.
New Paint on Griffith Park Blvd, Median Prettifying in LB
@guest #26: "Silver Lake experiment"?? WTF is that? Silver Lake is a decades old neighborhood of Los Angeles. Like all of Los Angeles, it is a diverse melting pot of cultures.
Are you trying to say that the old Russian woman who has owned the house 3 doors down from me for 60 years moved here to be a part of a community you want to create now? Or did you move here to embrace and live HER lifestyle and community that has existed in Silver Lake for over a half century?
More likely you are shitting on her lifestyle and community because it isn’t what you’ve decided Silver Lake should represent. Who are you to decide?
I live west of the reservoir off Hyperion. Dead center Silver Lake 90026. No where even remotely near Echo Park (which also shares the zip).
I wish people would educate themselves before spouting off. Look up the 90026zip (redfin is an easy way to do it). You’ll see that half of Silver Lake is in that zip. It touches the reservoir, encompasses the entire SIlver Lake Blvd business district and goes all the way to Hyperion).
I have a feeling the people who live around me are pretty sure we dont live in Echo Park…..
House is a really unfortunate, but definitely Silver Lake.
Oh, and #34, the Glendale/Alvarado intersection is not in Hollywood. Not even close.
Maps, people, maps…..
Median Rent For a Two-Bed/One-Bath in Silver Lake is $2,195
Love it or hate it, the rent increase has a lot to do with the gentrification trend moving further East than Silver Lake (with the trend moving into Echo Park, Downtown, and Highland Park, Silver Lake is seen as being "fully gentrified"). I love other parts of LA also – SM is a great place to live as long as you work West of the 405, or don’t mind the traffic jams. I lived off of Ocean Park for years and loved it. I don’t think SM and Silver Lake are comparable – they are both great places to live and both have their charms, but the vibes are different and so is the culture.
Silver Lake has been coming up for over a decade, and with its proximity to Downtown, rents are only going to go up. I love living here, and am glad we decided to buy a duplex in this funky bohemian hub.
Glendale Jumps in on Hotel Mania: Hello Hyatt Place
What?!?! This is too close to Silver Lake!!! "Silver Lake is the premiere [sic] neighborhood in Los Angeles" and this would come within thousands of feet of our premier-ness.
How sad and pathetic it is that NIMBY bitterness has gotten us to this point. Go read the bile on eastsider and see just how wackazoid it is. Here we have a community that is getting healthy, combating the gawdawful stress of living in this ouch cube of a city, and these hateful sad people who peer from their fearfortress are deeply threatened by it, grasping at some regulation they might use to clamp down on this rampant epidemic of health and joy. We went through this in Silver Lake. What is it they fear? It’s pretty clear that it’s happiness itself. What if all that peaceful healthy stretching infected their sad lives, like some virus from the happiness fairy? Oh the horror.
Hotel, Rent, Own: Silver Lake, Santa Monica, Venice
Own: Silver Lake (up on the hills overlooking the now-drained, future-skate park Lake)
Rent: Venice (yay Abbot Kinney…yeah right…)
Hotel: Santa Monica, with a room overlooking the pier.
that’s a descent condo building with some great views of the lake. actual condos are nothing to write home about but it’s not bad considering the choices in Silver Lake condos in that price point
Here's the Plan to Turn Silver Lake Reservoir Into a Huge Park
What a beautiful vision for the Silver Lake Reservoir! I hope this gets approved. I’m especially excited for the addition of more shade trees to the banks of a more naturalized lake.