Wilshire Boulevard is expected to be closed to traffic between Western Avenue and Fairfax Avenue from 9:00 pm on Friday to 5:00 am on Saturday on account of the 340-ton boulder that is being transported to LACMA.
Destination: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the largest art museum in the western United States. Object: 340-ton rock from Riverside County, meant for an art installation entitled Levitated Mass
Update: For photos of the event, see the KoreatownLA community’s FB page.
Sunday morning at a little before 10:00 am, LAPD received a report about a suspicious package in front of Christ Church on the street known as Manhattan Place, just north of Wilshire, a block west of Western Avenue.
The LA Police Department sent in the bomb unit to take a look at it, and as a precautionary measure, part of Wilshire Boulevard between Manhattan Place and Western Avenue was closed to traffic.
The area is technically just west of Koreatown proper, according to boundaries set by the City Council in 2010.
Source: the community’s main Twitter account http://twitter.com/Koreatown
Update: The bomb squad conducted at least three controlled detonations, at 12:27, 12:38, and 1:00, and determined that the package was benign. Wilshire Boulevard was opened to traffic at 1:35 PM. Manhattan Place between Wilshire and 6th Street was cleared at 2:10 pm.
