Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the
2000 census, the city had a population of 38,816. The community is mostly
surrounded by the city of Los Angeles, but also has a border with unincorporated
areas of Los Angeles County. The mayor is Andrew Weissman. Since the 1920s,
Culver City has been a significant center for motion picture and later
television production, in part because it was the home of MGM Studios. It also
was the headquarters for the Hughes Aircraft Company from 1932 to 1985. National
Public Radio West and Sony Pictures Entertainment now have headquarters in the
city.
In the 1990s, Culver City launched a successful revitalization program in
which it renovated its downtown as well as several shopping centers in the
Sepulveda Boulevard corridor near Fox Hills Mall. Around the same time, the
relocation of Sony's motion picture operations (known as Columbia Pictures) to
the former MGM studios at Washington Boulevard and Overland Avenue brought
much-needed jobs to the city. The influx of many art galleries and restaurants
to the eastern part of the city, formally designated as the Culver City Art
District, prompted The New York Times in 2007 to praise the new art scene and
call Culver City a "nascent Chelsea."
The city is surrounded by the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Mar Vista, West
Los Angeles and Palms to the north; Westchester to the south; the Baldwin Hills
and Ladera Heights unincorporated areas to the east; and the L.A. neighborhoods
of Venice and Playa Vista to the west, along with the unincorporated area of
Marina Del Rey.
The two primary ZIP codes for Culver City are 90230 and 90232. Because ZIP
codes do not necessarily follow city boundaries, a portion of Culver City is in
the 90066 ZIP code, which also serves some of the Mar Vista neighborhood of the
city of Los Angeles.
Neighborhoods:
- Beverlywood West
- Blair Hills
- Blanco
- Carlson Park
- Clarkdale
- Culver Crest
- Culver West
- Downtown Culver City
- Federal Park
- Fox Hills
- Hayden Tract
- Helms District
- Higuera
- Lucerne
- Jefferson
- McLaughlin
- McManus (East Culver City)
- Park East
- Rancho Higuera
- Studio Estates
- Studio Village (Lindberg Park)
- Sunkist Park (El Marino)
- Telefson Park
- Veterans Park (Park West)
- Veterans Park
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