Community

Welcome to our Community page!  This page will serve to provide quick links to neighborhood services, groups, blogs, events, and local government. Please send us an email if you would like your neighborhood entity to be included here.

Neighborhood Community Centers:

Bellevue Recreation Center, 826 Lucile Avenue  Los Angeles, CA  90026  Phone: (323) 664-2468; Hours of Operation:  Monday – Friday: 9:00 am – 10:00 pm, Saturday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm; Sunday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Silverlake Recreation Center, 1850 West Silverlake Drive, Los Angeles, CA  90026  Phone: (323) 644-3946  Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday: 9:00 am – 9:00 pm, Saturday – Sunday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Echo Park Recreation Center, 1632 Bellevue Avenue, Los Angeles, CA  90026  Phone: (213) 250-3578   Hours of Operation:  Monday – Thursday: 9:00 am – 9:00 pm; Friday: 9:00 am – 10:00 pm  Saturday – Sunday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm  Holiday: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

City of Los Angeles, Department of Recreation and Parks

Silverlake Independent Jewish Community Center 1110 Bates Ave. Los Angeles CA 90029  Phone: (323) 663-2255

Hollywood YMCA 553 Schrader Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028  Phone: (323) 467-4161

Neighborhood Pools:

Echo Deep AKA Echo Park Pool 1419 Colton Street, Los Angeles, CA  90026

Griffith Park Pool 3401 Riverside Drive  Los Angeles, CA 90027   Phone:  (323) 906-7953   Open from June 25 to September 5, 2010.

City of Los Angeles, Directory of Aquatic Centers

Hollywood YMCA 553 Schrader Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028  Phone: (323) 467-4161

Local Treasures:

Griffith Park

Griffith Observatory

Barnsdall Art Park

California Science Center

Museum of Natural History Did you know you can have a sleepover at the Museum of Natural History?!

Los Angeles Zoo

Museum of Contemporary Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Getty Museum Check out the Getty family fun page here.

Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena.  Check out their kids page here.

Audobon Center at Debs Park

Huntington Botanical Gardens

Kidspace Museum

Wildwoods Foundation

Local newspapers, publications and weblogs

Los Feliz Ledger

The Silverlake News webpage

Homegrown Evolution

Los Angeles Times

Local farmer’s markets

Silverlake Farmer’s Market Saturdays 8am – 1pm at the intersections of Sunset Blvd., Griffith Park Blvd. and Edgecliff Drive, across from the 99 Cent Store.

Los Feliz Farmer’s Market.  Sundays 9am – 2pm, located at 1760 North Vermont Blvd., Los Angeles.

Atwater Village Farmer’s Market Sundays 10am – 2pm located at 3250 Glendale Blvd., in the Wells Fargo Bank parking lot at Larga Ave.

Barnsdall Park Art Park/ Kaiser Permanente Farmer’s Market Wednesdays, 12 to 6 p.m., located at 4800 Hollywood Blvd. in the Barnsdall Art Park parking lot between Edgemont Street and Vermont Avenue.

Local Government Services and Neighborhood Committee websites:

Citywide Services Page (311)

Official Website of the City of Los Angeles

Silverlake Neighborhood Council

Silverlake Improvement Association

Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance The Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance runs the Saturday Silverlake Farmer’s Market and the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair, which this year will be held on August 21 and 22.

Silverlake Chamber of Commerce

Our Local Government Representatives:

Micheltorena Street School is located in the Thirteenth District, represented by City Councilmember Eric Garcetti

County Supervisor District 3 ZEV YAROSLAVSKY
State Senate District 26 Curren D. Price, Jr.
State Assembly District 43 Paul Krekorian
US Congress District 31 Xavier Becerra
Neighborhood Prosecutor NORTHEAST
Neighborhood Fire Station 20
Community Police Station NORTHEAST
Community Emergency Preparedness: Contact the Emergency Management Department, 213-978-2222 for more information