Week 5: Downtown LA (LA Times article)

This past week, my friends and I decided to go to Syrup Desserts in Downtown LA (about 4 miles from USC)

Downtown LA is a great example of how LA is part of the 4th Urban Revolution. In comparison to places like Chicago, you know that their downtown is the place to be. When I think of LA downtown I think of the fashion district- where I can get cheap knockoffs- the flower district,  USC and areas I would not feel safe walking around at night.

In fact, on Halloween night, on the USC campus there was a shooting, leading to four people wounded.

The Los Angeles Times story I linked to, shares a story of one student, St. Claire. She said earlier this year, her laptop was even stolen from her secured dorm room. This is worrying to so many students and parents because they send their children for a great education but have to often worry about their own safety. USC is not entirely to blame. USC spends a lot of money, working with private security and LAPD to ensure that their students and faculty are taken care of. But the fancy shmancy university is surrounded in an area where there is severe poverty and hard access to a good basic education (ironic, right?)

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But back to my trip in Downtown, the area we were in had a lot of small boutiques and other coffee shops. This area had a lot of people in their twenties and thirties. Parking is of course a hassle because of the limited metered parking and privately owned parking lots. There were a few homeless people walking here and there.

Apple Pie Belgian Waffle- Syrup Desserts