Los Angeles/Eastside

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The Eastside of Los Angeles was originally settled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, starting with the neighborhoods immediately across the river from Downtown LA. For much of its history, it has contained many of Los Angeles' ethnoburbs: Lincoln Heights once had a substantial Italian-American population, and Boyle Heights used to have substantial Jewish, Eastern European, and Japanese populations, although both are predominantly Latino today. Some of the largest and oldest cemeteries in the City of Los Angeles are on the East Side, as is LA County's General Hospital.