Pico-Robertson
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South Robertson (also Pico-Robertson[1]) is a neighborhood in the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California. Located within the West Los Angeles subregion, it lies south of Beverly Hills. The commercial district along Robertson is sometimes called SoRo Village.[2] It is bounded by, Olympic Blvd., San Vicente Blvd., W. Pico Blvd., Fairfax Ave., Venice Blvd., Hauser Blvd., Monte Mar Drive, Gregory Way, N. Le Doux Rd., Robertson Blvd., Whitworth Drive, Pickford Street, Charleville Blvd., Roxbury Drive and Beverwil Drive and is served by zip codes 90034 and 90035. It is bordered to the North by Beverly Hills and Mid-City West, to the South, West and Southwest, the neighborhoods of Beverlywood, Crestview and Cheviot Hills, to the East, Mid-Wilshire.
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Demographics
In 2009, the Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." project supplied these "Pico-Robertson" neighborhood statistics: population: 18,019; median household income: $63,356.[3]
Education
Part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the neighborhood is served by Canfield, Crescent Heights, Shenandoah, and Castle Heights elementary schools and Emerson Middle School. The high school for the South Robertson neighborhood is Hamilton High School. The magnet school Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) is in the Crestview neighborhood's eastern reaches to the westside of Fairfax Avenue (also known as Faircrest Heights). Torat Hayim Hebrew Academy is in it's northeast reaches to the westside of Crescent Heights Boulevard (also known as South Carthay).
Jewish community
The neighborhood features more than thirty Certified Kosher restaurants,[4] including delis, Chinese, Italian and Mexican restaurants, a donut shop, a frozen yogurt shop, bakeries, and butchers. The community features four men's mikvahs and one woman's mikvah, the largest known as the Los Angeles Mikvah. There are several Jewish day schools located in the Pico Robertson area. The Chabad community operates four schools, Bais Chaya Mushka and Bais Chana, both of which are on Pico Boulevard, as well as the newly relocated Cheder Menachem on La Cienega. Yeshiva University High School has campuses on both South Robertson Boulevard and West Pico Boulevard, in the heart of the Pico-Robertson Jewish community. The former Picfair Theatre site reaches to the eastside of Fairfax Avenue (also known as Picfair Village). Little Ethiopia is located on Fairfax Avenue in its northeastern reaches, to the eastside of Hauser Boulevard (also known as Carthay Square and Wilshire Vista).
The community overall has a wide variety of Jewish denominational groups. Over the past two decades, the Orthodox community has grown to become the largest Jewish denomination in the area. This is evident in the growth of the Hasidic community. According to Chabad,[5] the Hasidic movement has eleven centers in the immediate Pico-Robertson area, including the two high schools, boys cheder, day school, six synagogues, and a community center. Minyan Finder reports over twenty synagogues operating in the area.[6]
