Glassell Park, Los Angeles continued to subdivide their land, selling off what is now Forest Lawn Memorial Park during the Great Depression. The growing neighborhood was served by a line of the Los Angeles Railway, which traveled in the median of Eagle Rock Boulevard towards Eagle Rock. Glassell Park suffered periods of gang activity in the final decades of the 20th century due to the arrival of the Mexican-American Avenues. In 2008 and 2009, the police launched a major raid against the gang and demolished its former neighborhood stronghold, replacing it with the Glassell Park Community Garden. The Glassell Park Community Garden is now
Harvard Park, Los Angeles Harvard Park, Los Angeles Harvard Park is a 0.64-square-mile neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. It is centered on a municipal park by that name. A total of 10,297 residents lived in Harvard Park's 0.64 square miles, according to the 2000 U.S. census — averaging 16.072 people per square mile, among the highest population densities in both the city and the county. Its population has grown to 10,888, the city estimated in 2008. The median age was 28, young for the city and the county, and the percentages of residents younger than age 18 were