Harbor City, Los Angeles Harbor City as outlined by the Los Angeles Times Harbor City as outlined by the Los Angeles Times Harbor City is positioned in Los Angeles Harbor City - Harbor City Harbor City is a highly diverse neighborhood inside the Los Angeles Harbor Region of Los Angeles, California, with a populace upward of 36,000 citizens .
Originally part of the Rancho San Pedro Spanish territory grant, the 2.58-square-mile Harbor City was brought into Los Angeles as a preliminary step in the larger city's consolidation with the port metros/cities of Wilmington and San Pedro.
Harbor City's percentage of high school graduates is larger than the city's as a whole.
Harbor City is bordered by Harbor Gateway to the north, West Carson and Wilmington to the east, Wilmington and San Pedro to the south and Torrance and Lomita to the west. The neighborhood's boundaries are West Sepulveda Boulevard on the north, Western Avenue and the Harbor Freeway (following the town/city line with Los Angeles County) on the east, West Anaheim Street and Palos Verdes Drive on the south and the boundary with Lomita and Torrance on the west Harbor City stands as a testament to the ambitious designs of the Anglo-American creators of the undivided metropolis of Los Angeles. By around the start of the 20th century, town/city leaders had decided that it would be in the best interests of the town/city if the port and harbor areas were directly annexed.
The autonomous metros/cities of San Pedro (founded in the late 18th century) and Wilmington (founded in 1858 by Phineas Banning) were then-independent establishments of what would turn into the Port of Los Angeles.
Following the establishment of San Pedro as the chief source for the port in Santa Monica in 1897, Los Angeles town/city leaders argued that direct control over the port areas would be mutually beneficial by providing San Pedro and Wilmington with larger funding and in turn allowing the town/city to garner more revenue via the increasing port trade.
The two metros/cities were initially reluctant to join, but in 1906, frustrated by the indecision of San Pedro and Wilmington leaders, the town/city of Los Angeles purchased a long and narrow swath of territory that connected then-South Los Angeles to San Pedro, naming the two regions Harbor Gateway and Harbor City.
City leaders then threatened to build a new port in Harbor City if the recalcitrant suburbs would not acquiesce to annexation.
In return, the town/city of Los Angeles propel to keep Harbor City as a land-locked part of the chief city, linking the metropolis to its newly-won ocean trading centers.
18.1% of Harbor City's inhabitants aged 25 or older had instead of a four-year degree by 2000, an average figure when compared with the town/city and the county at large.
Harbor City Elementary School, LAUSD, 1508 West 254th Street Los Angeles Public Library operates the Harbor Gateway-Harbor City Branch Library. Harbor City Park, 24902 Frampton Avenue, at Lomita Boulevard, includes the Harbor City Recreation Center and the Harbor City Childcare Center are on the same site. The Harbor City Recreation Center, which functions as a Los Angeles Police Department stop-in center, has a gymnasium that may also be used as an auditorium.
"Harbor City," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times "Harbor City, Schools," Mapping L.A., Los Angeles Times " Los Angeles City Department of Recreation and Parks.
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