What a great week for Leimert Park: More than 100 people attended the unveiling of the city's vision for Leimert Park Village on Thursday; Representatives from City Councilman Bernard Parks' office attended the Sutro Ave. Block Club summer BBQ; and THOUSANDS listened to world-class jazz at the World Stage Jazz Festival. Pictures will be posted soon.

So a little info about the neighborhood where we live:

Leimert Park is a thriving, historical neighborhood strategically located between downtown Los Angeles and the Los Angeles International Airport. It has been home to musicians and artists, notably Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald . John Singleton called it the black Greenwich Village.

Centered around a park where a drum circle convenes every weekend and soaks the area in rhythm, Leimert Park is home to Afro-centric shops, ethnic restaurants and clubs that relish the blues, jazz, poetry.

Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles called Leimert Park home. Resident filmmaker John Singleton called it the black Greenwich Village. Neighborhoods like Leimert Park along with adjacent communities Baldwin Hills and Crenshaw give Los Angeles the wealthiest middle class in the country.

Leimert Park has a vocal and loose network of community activists who routinely fill meeting halls to overflow capacity.

The area is 92 percent African-American, with a median family income of $46,709, where 35 percent own their homes that have a median price of $581,000 .

Internet penetration has increased in African-American homes from 45 percent in 2001 to 69 percent in 2007.

Leimert Park and the surrounding areas are not served by the traditional media.