El Sereno is one of those Northeast LA neighborhoods most of the city drives past without ever really seeing. Huntington Drive runs through the middle of it with that wide grassy median left over from the old Pacific Electric streetcar line, and if you turn off it in almost any direction you’re on a narrow

Lincoln Heights has been here longer than most of Los Angeles. The tract was subdivided back in 1873, which makes it the city’s first real residential suburb, and you can still read that history right off the street grid: narrow lots on the hillside blocks off Griffin Avenue, Victorian cottages sitting a few doors down

Boyle Heights sits up on the bluff just east of the LA River, close enough to Downtown that you can see the skyline from a lot of the front porches on Pennsylvania Avenue. The housing here is older than most of what you’ll find west of the 110. Queen Anne and Craftsman two-stories along South

Westchester is one of those LA neighborhoods that gets defined by what’s next to it. Planes on final approach into LAX pass low overhead every few minutes, Loyola Marymount sits up on the bluff, and the Kentwood pocket in the south has some of the widest, most tree-lined streets on the westside. It’s a neighborhood

People mix up Del Rey and Marina del Rey constantly, and honestly, we get it. But Del Rey is its own small neighborhood, tucked between Culver City, Mar Vista, and the marina, cut through by the Ballona Creek bike path and a mostly-quiet grid of streets off Alla Road and Pacific Ave. It’s smaller-lot houses,

Mar Vista is one of the few westside neighborhoods where people actually have yards, and that changes what junk removal in Mar Vista looks like compared to the apartment-heavy areas nearby. Instead of a packed hall closet, it’s a backyard shed nobody’s opened since a kid moved out for college. Instead of a studio overflowing