🌲 CYPRESS PARK

🏛️ Architectural Houses

The Jeffries House — 751 Cypress Ave. (1911) The last remaining house of the Jeffries family, made prominent by James J. Jeffries, boxing heavyweight Champion of the World. Built in 1911, this house belonged to his brother and is a designated Historic-Cultural Monument. Alchetron

Nickel-Leong Mansion — see Mount Washington above.

💀 Death & Tragedy / 🔪 True Crime

Isabel Street — "Avenida Asesinos" — Cypress Park The deadliest block associated with the Avenues gang's hate campaign. Along Isabel Street in Cypress Park — a street nicknamed "Avenida... asesinos," a misspelled Spanish phrase meaning "Street of Killers" — members of the Avenues gang shot at a vehicle containing a family returning from a cookout at 1:45 a.m. on September 17, 1995. Three-year-old Stephanie Kuhen was killed. The murder shocked the nation and triggered the most aggressive federal anti-gang campaign in Northeast LA history. Wikipedia