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Central Berkeley/The Berkeley Flats (as contrasted with the Berkeley Hills) – This area encompasses the gently sloping flat land bounded by Martin Luther King Jr Way, Sacramento Street, Cedar Street and Dwight Way. The Elevation decreases smoothly from 180 feet above sea level at the eastern boundary to 100 feet above sea level at the western ...
Pages in category "Neighborhoods in Berkeley, California" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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University of California, Berkeley: 13,213 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: 3,470 3 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (part of Sutter Health) 1,773 4 Berkeley Unified School District: 1,710 5 City of Berkeley 1,602 6 Bayer: 1,043 7 Kaiser Permanente: 944 8 Siemens: 679 9 Lifelong Medical Care 533 10 Berkeley Bowl: 523
La Loma Park is a neighborhood and tract of land located in the Berkeley Hills section of the city of Berkeley, California in the San Francisco Bay Area.The land had been the property of Captain Richard Parks Thomas, a veteran of the American Civil War and Berkeley businessman.
The line ran from Martinez across the hills and down what was then named "Harwood's Canyon" after an early claimant to grazing lands in the canyon above the Claremont neighborhood, retired sea captain and Oakland wharfinger William Harwood. With the advent of the telegraph line, it became "Telegraph Canyon", a name that persists for a side ...
Northside is the oldest residential neighborhood in the Berkeley Hills. It was subdivided in 1889 by George Phelps, who named it Daley’s Scenic Park, after the land’s previous owner, Thomas Daley. Two years later, the entire tract was purchased for $4,000 in gold by banker Frank M. Wilson, who began to sell lots for houses.
The neighborhood was originally designed with the intention of each single family home having direct access to the train under the 1916 zoning law. Today, however, the North Berkeley BART station is a half mile away. Four AC Transit bus lines currently run through the neighborhood.