Harbor Gateway, Los Angeles

Harbor Gateway Shoestring
Neighborhood of Los Angeles
Harbor Gateway neighborhood sign
Nickname:  The Shoestring Strip
Harbor Gateway as outlined by the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County with the City of Los Angeles in red. The Harbor Gateway is a two-mile wide north-south corridor that connects the Port of Los Angeles to the south with the rest of the city in the north (note the vertical red line).
Coordinates: 33°51′00″N 118°17′57″W / 33.850072°N 118.299068°W / 33.850072; -118.299068
Country	United States
State	California
County	Los Angeles
City	Los Angeles

The Harbor Gateway, historically and sometimes informally known as the Shoestring due to its shape, is a 5.14-square-mile residential and industrial area (13.3 km²) in the South Bay and Los Angeles Harbor Region, in the southern part of the City of Los Angeles. The neighborhood is narrow and long, running along a north-south axis. The northern boundary of the neighborhood is Imperial Highway, a city street just north of I-105, while the southern boundary is marked by a southern segment of Sepulveda Boulevard.

The Shoestring Annexation, as it was called at the time, was attached to Los Angeles in 1906 to serve as a link to the Pacific Ocean port cities of Wilmington and San Pedro, both of which were later annexed into Los Angeles themselves in 1909. The Shoestring was officially renamed to the Harbor Gateway in 1985.

With a relatively youthful and ethnically diverse population of over 42,000, the center of the community is anchored by Gardena High School. The neighborhood is bisected by Artesia Boulevard and has two neighborhood councils, one north of the boulevard and the other south of it. A large transportation center serves the south Los Angeles County area.