Poll: Is Highland Park the New Echo Park?

Echo Park resident Kai Flanders detects an undercurrent of change in his neighborhood in a piece published Friday in the L.A. Weekly:

Lately, a lot of people have been ragging on this fair barrio of mine. Guys with unwashed hair and paint on their jeans complain about how Echo Park is becoming too gentrified. Too much like our now-grown-up neighbors in Silverlake. (Shocking to realize it's been more than a decade since Beck was couch-surfing his way to stardom.) Someone actually complained the Gold Room, where rumor has it you can buy coke in the bathroom, isn't "dangerous enough anymore."

Flanders goes on to suggest that with bi-weekly DJ parties hosted by Stones Throw at Mr. T's Bowl, Highland Park might just be the new Echo Park.

Read the full L.A. Weekly piece here.

Is Flanders right?  Is Highland Park the new Echo Park?

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