Figueroa Street

Figueroa Street is a major north-south street in Los Angeles County, California, spanning from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington north to Eagle Rock. There is a break in the street between Alpine Street in Chinatown and San Fernando Road in Cypress Park, where that segment was replaced with a portion of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (State Route 110).The street is named for General José Figueroa (1792 – September 29, 1835), governor of Alta California from 1833 to 1835, who oversaw the secularization of the missions of California.RouteOne of the longer streets in the city, it runs in a north/south direction for more than 30 miles between the neighborhoods of Wilmington and Eagle Rock of Los Angeles. The southern terminus is at Harry Bridges Boulevard in San Pedro, and its northern terminus at its interchange with the Ventura Freeway west of Pasadena, with a break between Alpine Street in Chinatown and San Fernando Road in Cypress Park.