Boyle Heights, Astra Court, Los Angeles

Truly hair raising stuff here.

Beautiful art work and respected by the Mexican community.

Here is some more information about the art works

Its religious and spiritual, and I had the opportunity to photograph the art work off the main road and not within the court for safety reasons and their privacy.

Boyle Heights is a neighborhood of almost 100,000 residents east of Downtown Los Angeles in the City of Los Angeles, California. The district has more than twenty public schools, and ten private schools.

Boyle Heights was called Paredon Blanco (White Bluff) when California was part of Mexico. The area is named after Andrew Boyle, an Irishman who purchased 22 acres (8.9 ha) on the bluffs overlooking the Los Angeles River after fighting in the Mexican–American War.

From 1889 through 1909 the city was divided into nine wards. In 1899 a motion was introduced at the Ninth Ward Development Association to use the name Boyle Heights to apply to all the highlands of the Ninth Ward, including Brooklyn Heights, Euclid Heights, and the aforementioned Boyle Heights.

In 2017, some residents were protesting gentrification of their neighborhood by the influx of new businesses.