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    Silver Lake residents: We are not Eastsiders

    For someone who’s not a native Angeleno, the distinction of East versus Westside can be a little confusing. Those hip, creative neighborhoods northwest of downtown LA, like Silver Lake, Echo…

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    By Avishay Artsy • Feb 6, 2014 • 1 min read

    Silver Lake photo by Eric Allix Rogers via Flickr/CC.

    For someone who’s not a native Angeleno, the distinction of East versus Westside can be a little confusing.

    Those hip, creative neighborhoods northwest of downtown LA, like Silver Lake, Echo Park and Los Feliz are often referred to as the Eastside.

    But a group of Silver Lake residents has had enough. Anne-Marie Johnson is one of them. She co-authored a motion that’ll be voted on at tonight’s Silver Lake Neighborhood Council meeting that definitively states that Silver Lake is NOT the Eastside, and she spoke to KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis.

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

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