Toy District, Los Angeles

A store in the Toy District

The Toy District is a 12-block area in eastern Downtown Los Angeles, bounded by Los Angeles Street on the west, Third and Fifth streets on the north and south and San Pedro Street on the east.[1][2] It is a multilingual, multicultural area[3] that consists of one- and two-story buildings often painted in pastel shades and is home to roughly five hundred toy- and electronics-related businesses.[4]

  1. ^ Susan Carpenter, "At Play in the Toy District," Los Angeles Times, December 15, 2005
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference FromToy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Hiltzick, Michael (December 21, 2009). "Landlords' Pullback Puts L.A. Toy District at Risk". Los Angeles Times. p. B-1.
  4. ^ Joel Kotkin, "Grass-Roots Business: How Toys Cleaned Up Urban Blight," The New York Times, November 29, 1998

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