Opinion: In Tuesday’s Letters to the editor
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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.
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Image: Map of Los Angeles from Times Mapping Project. Credit: Los Angeles Times