Green Lake, Seattle, Washington
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Green Lake is a neighborhood in north central Seattle, Washington, USA. Its centerpiece is the lake and park after which it is named.
Its generally accepted boundaries are Interstate 5 to the east, beyond which lies Roosevelt and Maple Leaf; N. 85th Street to the north, beyond which lies the neighborhood surrounding North Seattle Community College, known by some as North College Park; Aurora Avenue N. (Washington State Route 99) to the west, beyond which lies Phinney Ridge, and N. 60th Street and Woodland Park to the south, beyond which lies Wallingford.
Its main thoroughfares are the circumferential road around the lake, known at different points as East Green Lake Way N., East Green Lake Drive N., West Green Lake Drive N., Aurora Avenue N., and West Green Lake Way N.; N. 65th, N. 71st, and N. 80th Streets (east- and westbound); Wallingford Avenue N. and 1st, 5th, Latona, and Woodlawn Avenues N.E. (generally north- and southbound but following the contours of the shoreline at some points); Green Lake Drive N. and N.E. Ravenna Boulevard (northwest- and southeast-bound); and Winona Avenue N. (northeast- and southwest-bound).
There is an extensive variety of housing types in Green Lake. Since 1995, the neighborhood has undergone significant redevelopment. Many houses have been completely remodeled and enlarged, often with the addition of another floor. This is a consequence of Green Lake's easy access to Downtown via Aurora Avenue N.
Prior to the 1991 redistricting, Green Lake formed the center of Washington's 32nd Legislative District. The well-organized and rather left-leaning Democratic Party organization of that district was widely known both to friend and foe alike as "the soviet of Green Lake", possibly an allusion to James Farley's legendary (though possibly apocryphal) 1930s remark about "the 47 States of the Union and the Soviet of Washington".