DTLA Broadway Night - The night before.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2025
- Walking tour of Broadway the night before Broadway Nights. Broadway is closed to traffic, affording us an opportunity to see Broadway without traffic noise. Walking from 2nd St. to 9th street.
sad to hear about the restaurant closure at 5th and broadway. it really was the last thing over there lol
If the actual "movie stars" in Hollywood didn't snub live stage performing arts actors. The whole seven theaters in that stretch of Broadway would or could compete with New York City for West Coast live shows. Perhaps extending other venues for music too. I'm sure restaurants, bars, and specialty retail shops would follow to fill in those empty store fronts. When you gentrify an area. It's not just one building at a time. But an overview of what the precinct would look like in totality.
That's exactly what had been happening for several years before Covid hit. Things are improving, but it will take a couple of more years. And, the companies need to end working from home. It's killing many places, especially mom and pop restaurants.
Also, there is usually a good amount of activity before 10pm. So when you say dead, you're not talking about 5, 6, 7, or 8pm.
This issue of closing earlier is also related to people still working from home. For example, there are a number of local eateries I go to in my area and they all close now at eitger 2 or 3pm. Before Covid and working from home, these places were open foe dinner, too, until 7 or 8 pm.
A more well-known eatery that has done the same is The Pantry. That place was famous for being open 23/7. I spent so many mornings there at 3 or 4 am. after a night out having some great food. Now, I think they close at 5pm. I hate seeing this, but I mostly blame Covid that killed millions. It's going to take a couple more years of improvement to get back to pre Covid tines.
Hey, at least LA Metro is continually improving now. They just announced over 1 million daily boardings and 22 straight months of ridership increases. That's a hopeful sign.
I did the Cyclavia today and it was packed with people. Many, including myself, were using the LA Metro, too, bikes and all. It was a great event. It was my first. Plan to do many more.
To be fair, things had been improving a lot for several years before Covid hit. LA, like many cities, is still suffering from lingering effects of the pandemic and employees still working from home.
Places like the Nickel Diner almost escaped Covid, but they closed because they no longer had the customers due to people working from home.
This issue of working from home now, going on 5 years, if adding to the negative effects of Covid in places like DTLA. Places like drugstores need those daily workers to spend money. The same is true for mom and pop places like the Nickel Diner.
They need to mandate people work 5 days a week in offices again.
Cities need to adapt, there's no reason to force people to work in an office when they can do it from home. If they encourage WFH and convert downtowns from offices to housing, you get a double whammy of less people commuting to offices and more people living densely and not needing cars to or to travel as far for things. Transportation is the largest emissions sector , with most of that being personal vehicles. Getting more people to live in population nodes rather than being sprawled out and coming to work in the nodes is easier to city-plan for and better for the environment.
DTLA won't get better until they add thousands of housing units in it. There's also have too much historical preservation for its own sake.
I can think of a bunch of buildings that could benefit from an adaptive reuse binge like there was in the early 00's.
More people live in DTLA today than in the last 75 years, if not more. And more residential towers continue to be built.
Also, there is usually a good amount of activity before 10 pm. So when you say dead, you're not talking about 5, 6, 7, or 8pm.
This issue of closing earlier is also related to people still working from home. For example, there are a number of local eateries I go to in my area, and they all close now at eitger 2 or 3 pm. Before Covid and working from home, these places were open for dinner, too, until 7 or 8 pm.
A more well-known eatery that has done the same is The Pantry. That place was famous for being open 24/7. I spent so many mornings there at 3 or 4 am. after a night out having some great food. Now, I think they close at 5 pm. I hate seeing this, but I mostly blame Covid that killed millions. It's going to take a couple more years of improvement to get back to pre Covid tines.
Hey, at least LA Metro is continually improving now. They just announced over 1 million daily boardings and 22 straight months of ridership increases. That's a hopeful sign.
I did the Cyclavia today, and it was packed with people. Many, including myself, were using the LA Metro, too, bikes and all. It was a great event. It was my first. Plan to do many more.