West 7th St, New Downtown

The thing is 7th street crosses some not bad streets like Fig and it has the holy grail of coffee shops like The Coffee bean and Tea Leaf, but it all closes at six. Even Macys and their are not really any bars on this street and then the weirdos come out and start asking for change when everything closes. It's dull, but if you work it's probably necessary to come here. I suggest sticking to better streets like Fig or Grand.

While you are in LA, you might as well check out W. 7th St. It runs right by MacArthur Park. There have been supposed improvements with cleaning up this park due to many homeless people living in the park and a lot of trash around, but when I went there in 2008, it seemed as if they did not begin to clean up the mess yet. MacArthur Park can be described as the "Central Park" of LA. It includes a small lake and everything. Aside from the park, W. 7th St. is a city street just outside of downtown LA.