Hill Street (Los Angeles)

Hill Street is a major north–south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, measuring 4.8 miles (7.7 km) in length.

It starts on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard near the campus of USC, and passes north through Downtown Los Angeles, past such landmarks as Pershing Square, the Subway Terminal Building, Angels Flight,[n 1] Fort Moore and Chinatown.

Hill Street merges with the Arroyo Seco Parkway near Dodger Stadium.

[5] The Metro B Line and Metro D Line run underneath Hill Street between 1st and 4th Streets and operate the Civic Center and Pershing Square stations along the way.

Los Angeles Public Library has the Chinatown branch located at Hill and Ord Streets.

Los Angeles High School building opened 1891 (razed)
East side of Hill between 4th and 5th, 1910s. The large building is the back entrance to the Broadway Department Store . Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway dual gauge streetcar tracks are embedded in the road .
Chinatown Branch Library at the corner of Hill Street and Ord Street, 2008
Stanley Mosk Courthouse at 1st Street , 2010
Hill Street, looking north from 6th Street, around 1913. Notable sites include Central Park (today's Pershing Square) (the trees, lower left), Hotel Portsmouth (lower right), and the Hill Street Tunnel (at end of street).