[2] Brookside, a neighborhood of predominantly large, single family homes, was developed by the Rimpau Estate Co. in 1920 on land that had previously been part of Rancho las Cienegas.

[4] On October 28, 2015, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a motion to establish an Interim Control Ordinance (ICO) for the Brookside and Sycamore Square neighborhoods to help prevent residential teardowns and the construction of oversized replacement homes as the city re-works its Baseline Mansionization Ordinance.

[4][7] A minor tributary of Ballona Creek, known as El Rio del Jardin de las Flores, runs through Brookside.

The library includes a large heraldic work of stained glass created by the artists at Judson Studios.

is a significant privately owned historic site, used once as the corporate headquarters of Farmers Insurance Group, established here in 1937 and enlarged in 1949.