In Tuesday's Letters to the editor
The Times' new Mapping Project has received thousands of comments from readers online (and is still accepting input here). Letters to the editor also received mail about the paper's attempt to draw borders for its 87 neighborhoods.
LAAlamanac.com's Gary Thornton, who lives in Montebello, had this to say:
I was both delighted and disappointed by your article on mapping out Los Angeles neighborhoods.
In 2002, we posted the first online neighborhood map of Los Angeles, which has since been viewed close to 2 million times. A year ago, we further revised and detailed our map and published it as a poster-sized wall map. As far as I can determine, it is the first-ever privately published wall map detailing the neighborhoods of L.A.
The Times' article makes it appear as though yours is the first serious effort to map out L.A. neighborhoods. The Times has always ignored our efforts, except for an occasional citation.
And Yolanda Lopez-Head, of Glendale, offered this response to Patt Morrison's column about the project:
Way to go, Patt Morrison! Keep East L.A. where it has always been: east of the Los Angeles River.
As a seventh-generation Angeleno, born in East L.A ., raised in Boyle Heights (yes, there is a distinction) and a South L.A. Fremont High School grad, I plead with our city not to erase our geographic and cultural history so readily, so illogically, so unnecessarily.
Iran's nukes, more on the California budget deal, lowered standards for sheriff's deputies in L.A. County and nursing home deaths, too.
Image: Map of Los Angeles from Times Mapping Project. Credit: Los Angeles Times
The proposed cutbacks are going to hurt the poor, this is why. There are very hungry, homeless school age children, going to school and reciting, "justice for all, and singing, "Sweet land of liberty." This is hypocricy. Some are in shelters, and some that I know are sleeping in a car. Our founding fathers never dreamed that our country would be so rich, and abandon the poor this way. We have rich industries,farming, fishing, mining;however, our poor children have no childhood.
What we need is real welfare reform that breaks the cycle of poverty, because with the present system, children drop out of high school, turn to drugs, end up in the prison system and get pregnant. This tragic condition for children has to stop, because it costs the taxpayer trillions of dollars. Please stand up for childen's injustice
Posted by: katrhleen gimartin Prewitt | May 26, 2009 at 08:19 PM
Who made the Times the Cartolographer Royale? Wouldn 't it make more sense to check with the USPS and the ciities and counties for clarification. You left out legally designated neighborhoods and it looks like you had fun just naming names. Unless ratified by Post Office or local government your litte exercise is just that.
Posted by: A. L. Kenney | February 24, 2009 at 03:16 PM