Columbia City is a neighborhood located in the southeastern part of Seattle, Washington in the Rainier Valley district. It has a landmark-protected historic business district and is one of the few Seattle neighborhoods with a long history of ethnic and income diversity. The neighborhood's main thoroughfares running north-south are Rainier Avenue S. and Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. The principal east-west thoroughfares are S. Alaska Street and S. Genesee Street. Mass transit includes Sound Transit's Central Link light rail service from the Columbia City station (approx. 15 minutes to downtown Seattle). - source: Wikipedia