South Robertson (also Pico-Robertson[1]) is a Los Angeles neighborhood south of Beverly Hills. The commercial district along Robertson is sometimes called SoRo Village.[2] It is served by zip codes 90034 and 90035, and a local neighborhood council. It is bordered to the North by the Beverly Hills border/Whitworth Drive, when west of Robertson Blvd.; Beverly Hills border/Gregory Way when east of Robertson Blvd. To the South the 10 Freeway, Robertson Blvd. off-ramp, and Exposition Blvd. along the Culver City border. To the West Roxbury Drive (Hillcrest Country Club east lot edge), Beverwil Drive (including attached cul-de-sacs), Shelby Drive, and National Blvd. To the East the west side of La Cienega Blvd.
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In 2009, the Los Angeles Times's "Mapping L.A." project supplied these "Pico-Robertson" neighborhood statistics: population: 18,019; median household income: $63,356.[3]
Part of the Los Angeles Unified School District, the neighborhood is served by Canfield, Crescent Heights, Shenandoah, and Castle Heights elementary schools and Emerson Middle School. The high school for the South Robertson neighborhood is Hamilton High School. The magnet school Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (LACES) is in the nearby Faircrest Heights neighborhood.
The neighborhood features more than thirty Certified Kosher restaurants [1], including delis, Chinese, Italian and Mexican restaurants, a donut shop, a frozen yogurt shop, bakeries, and butchers. The community features four men's mikvahs and one woman's mikvah, the largest known as the Los Angeles Mikvah. There are several Jewish day schools located in the Pico Robertson area. The Chabad community operates four schools, Bais Chaya Mushka and Bais Chana, both of which are on Pico Boulevard, as well as the newly relocated Cheder Menachem on La Cienega. Yeshiva University High School has campuses on both South Robertson Boulevard and West Pico Boulevard, in the heart of the Pico-Robertson Jewish community.
The community overall has a wide variety of Jewish denominational groups. Over the past two decades, the Orthodox community has grown to become the most largest Jewish denomination in the area. This is evident in the growth of the Hasidic community. According to Chabad [2], the Hasidic movement has eleven centers in the immediate Pico-Robertson area, including the two high schools, boys cheder, day school, six synagogues, and a community center. Minyan Finder reports over twenty synagogues operating in the area . [3]
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