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Rockridge is a residential neighborhood and commercial district in Oakland, California. Rockridge is generally defined as the area east of Telegraph Avenue , south of the Berkeley city limits , west of the Oakland Hills and north of the intersection of Pleasant Valley Avenue/51st Street and Broadway.
The following is a listing of the neighborhoods of Oakland, California, categorized into larger area designations of the city.. A broad geographical distinction in Oakland neighborhoods is between "the hills" and "the flatlands" (or "flats").
The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23.
The area includes Upper Rockridge, Oakmore, Montclair and Mountain View Cemetery. The Oakland Hills touch the eastern border of Piedmont, California and include a section of the Claremont neighborhood, the northern part of which lies within the city of Berkeley .
Glen Echo Creek is part of the 2.6-square-mile Glen Echo Creek Watershed and drains parts of Upper Rockridge, Piedmont Avenue, and Piedmont.Both the main creek and its Rockridge Branch start in the Oakland Hills around the Rock Ridge outcroppings. [1]
When established on the shore of Lake Merritt in 1868, Holy Names was the first high school built in Oakland. The school moved to its present 5.78 acres (23,400 m 2) campus on Harbord Drive in upper Rockridge in 1931.
The north end of the Adams Point district, as seen from Lakeshore Avenue on the east shore of the lake Upper Rockridge. Oakland has more than 50 distinct neighborhoods. The city's greater divisions include downtown Oakland and its greater Central Business District, Lake Merritt, East Oakland, North Oakland, West Oakland, and the Oakland Hills.
Temescal saw many changes in demographics in the past 10 years as new developments and upscale shopping and restaurants entered the neighborhood. Large numbers of young couples with children moved to Temescal as the real estate prices in nearby Rockridge grew too expensive for middle-class families. People of different racial and economic ...