Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon

The area has numerous retail stores, including clothing shops, restaurants, bars, brewpubs, and microbreweries.

East Portland residents considered the continued use of the street name Asylum Avenue after the closure of the hospital "distasteful."

is tangent to or a boundary of four neighborhoods: Buckman, Hosford-Abernethy, Sunnyside, Richmond, and passes into a fifth, Mount Tabor.

A website that describes itself as "[L]ong-time Portland locals on a mission: to promote our Portland neighborhoods and the independent businesses and artists that thrive in them" said that Hawthorne is popular with different social groups, such as Generation X, hippies, and more recently, hipsters.

[8] The Hawthorne area has vintage homes,[8] apartments, and locally owned shops and restaurants.