Reynier Village is a neighborhood on the Westside of

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. The Reynier Village neighborhood was known as Reynier Park in the 1920s and 1930s although the actual city park was not established until the late 1970s. For many years, real estate agents had called the area " Beverlywood adjacent" or "south Robertson" (the name of the

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, which encompasses several neighborhoods including Reynier Village).

Geography

Reynier Village is a triangular-shaped neighborhood bordered on the north by Cadillac Avenue; on the west by Robertson Boulevard; and on the southeast by Kramerwood Place, the 10 Freeway, and Garth Avenue. The Reynier Park operated by the City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreation Department is bounded by Reynier Avenue, Olin, Shenandoah Street, and Hargis. Councilman

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advocated for the creation of the park in 1978. Reynier Village is south of La Cienega Heights and southwest of Faircrest Heights. The ''Los Angeles Times

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project places Reynier Village is in the larger neighborhood of Mid-City. However, according to the Reynier Village

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, the village is in Zone 5 of the South Robertson neighborhood.

History

According to locals, the subdivision was named after a family whose home stood on what it now the city-maintained Reynier Park at 2803 Reynier Avenue. The residential subdivision was developed about 1921 by a real estate company. The Reynier Park Improvement Association was affiliated with five other neighborhood groups in 1927. In 1929 the association was vocally opposed to an increase in Pacific Electric streetcar fares, especially on the neighboring Venice Short Line. In 1930 the group requested public fire alarm boxes for "for that section from National boulevard to

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and extending from

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to the hills west of Robertson bouleyard in the district of Raynier Park". In 1931 the group was advocating for the channelization of

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. In 1934 the newly constructed Benedict Canyon creek storm drain alleviated previously common street flooding "kept the area in Palms and Reynier Park near the Alexander Hamilton high school comparatively dry" and thus Culver City buses were rerouted to

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instead of

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during the rains.

Rocha House

Rocha House, the 13th

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, is located in the village.

Services

Shenandoah Street School is located in Reynier Village. The neighborhood is served by the Robertson branch of the

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In popular culture

Reynier Park makes an appearance in Paul Beatty's 2003 Los Angeles novel '' The White-Boy Shuffle''.

Notes and references

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