Echo Park

Several dozen peaceful demonstrators, including a rock band, gathered in an Echo Park intersection Friday evening in recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week. NBC4 News reports at 11 p.m. on Nov. 20, 2020.

Several dozen peaceful demonstrators, including a rock band, gathered in an Echo Park intersection Friday evening in recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance and Transgender Awareness Week.

The coronavirus crisis is forcing many restaurants to do things differently in the hopes of staying afloat during and weathering the storm. For one Echo Park restaurant owner, that means turning to the community and feeding healthcare workers one delivery at a time. Like so many restaurants all across Los Angeles, the sign on the door at The Park’s...

After being forced to cut back due to coronavirus provisions, one Echo Park restaurant decided to focus efforts of feeding hospitals. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, March 24, 2020.

Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell introduced a motion Friday to have 60 temporary shelter beds delivered to Echo Park Lake by early spring and to provide storage facilities and other assistance to the park’s homeless population. “This crisis is a call to action for all Angelenos,” O’Farrell said. “As we address this urgent priority to find safe, temporary...

No tickets are required for this foam-focused festivity, a gathering which will include plenty of big-flavored tastes.

Family members wept and pleaded with the public to help find the hit-and-run driver whose car struck and killed a woman and badly injured her husband in Echo Park. Morena Del Carmen Alvarado-Lopez, 58, and her husband were walking northbound on Sunset Boulevard, east of White Knoll Drive, about 12:50 a.m. Monday after they had just finished their date night….

A woman was killed and a man was severely injured when a couple crossing the street was hit by a car in Echo Park early Monday morning and a $50,000 reward is being offered for the hit-and-run driver responsible, the Los Angeles Police Department announced. Morena Del Carmen Alvarado-Lopez, 58, died from her injuries at County USC Medical Center, police…

The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying the vehicle and driver of a fatal hit-and-run crash at Sunset Boulevard and White Knoll Road early Monday morning that killed one person. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020.

Authorities asked for the public’s help Friday morning in finding a 39-year-old homeless man suspected of causing a deadly hit- and-run crash in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. The driver of a 2019 BMW M4 was traveling westbound on Sunset Boulevard near Douglas Street at 7:45 a.m. Thursday when he veered into the eastbound lanes of Sunset Boulevard…

City officials say they don’t know anything about a planned moveout of homeless people from Echo Park. John Cádiz Klemack reported on NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. (Armando Aparicio, Kurt Beabes)

A transient staying beneath a “massive” hillside tree in Echo Park was trapped for nearly 30 minutes Monday when it toppled over following a night of heavy rainfall, bringing down energized electric wires and significantly damaging an adjacent duplex, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said. Rescuers were called just before 8 a.m. to 1332 Laveta Terrace, said the LAFD’s…

A large tree fell onto a home in Echo Park, knocking out power. Rick Montanez reported on NBC4 News on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019.

A man was trapped after a tree fell down in Echo Park. Jane Yamamoto reported on NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019.

A man was rescued after he was pinned beneath a large tree that toppled in Echo Park during a winter storm. Annette Arreola reports Dec. 23, 2019.

A pedestrian was struck by a car and killed Thursday in a hit-and-run in the Echo Park area, and police were looking for the driver. The man, about 60, was injured about 5:20 a.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Douglas Street and died at the scene, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The victim, identified by family as José Vaquiero,…

Jose Vaquiero was running to catch a bus when he was struck by a car and the driver sped away Dec. 19, 2019. Mekahlo Medina reports.

Three suspected robbers were killed in a crash after being pursued by police for allegedly attempting to rob a shoe store. Rick Montanez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019.

Three people were killed and another person was hospitalized in critical condition following a rollover crash at the end of a police pursuit north of downtown Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to place a permanent supportive housing project on land used as a therapeutic playground by an Echo Park nonprofit, which strongly opposed the council’s action.