North Hollywood is a neighborhood of Los Angeles located in the San Fernando Valley, centered on the NoHo Arts District at the intersection of Lankershim and Magnolia boulevards. The area began as farmland known as Lankershim and was renamed North Hollywood in the 1920s to associate the community with the nearby film industry. For much of the 20th century it remained a workaday Valley district, but the 1990s brought a deliberate rebranding, when local theater owners and the chamber of commerce began promoting a cluster of small stages and studios as the NoHo Arts District. Roughly 73,000 residents live in the neighborhood, which ranks among the densest areas of Los Angeles County. The extension of the Metro B (Red) Line to North Hollywood Station in 2000 transformed the district, making Lankershim and Magnolia into busy nodes of commerce and culture and connecting the Valley directly to Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles by rail. North Hollywood's identity today is creative and transit-oriented. The NoHo Arts District supports a concentration of theaters, performance venues, and galleries, and the neighborhood's history is visible in landmarks such as the 1896 train depot and the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a long mural painted along the Tujunga Wash near Valley College. Students attend Los Angeles Unified schools, and recreation centers on North Hollywood Park, the North Hollywood Recreation Center and pool, and the Tujunga Wash Greenway bike path. With Burbank's studios and Universal City nearby, North Hollywood offers an urban, arts-centered Valley lifestyle with a direct rail link to the rest of Los Angeles.