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Dogtown, Oakland, California. Coordinates: 37.8245°N 122.286°W. Dogtown is a nickname for a portion of West Oakland (officially Clawson) in the city of Oakland, California. Oakland Police officers coined the phrase due to a large population of stray dogs dating from the early 1980s. It is bounded on the east by Adeline Street, on the west by ...
Cypress Village, Oakland, California. Coordinates: 37.80893°N 122.29075°W. The Cypress Village housing projects (officially named Peralta Villa Public Housing Community) are a series of housing complexes stretching from 10th Street to 14th Street and Kirkham Way. Cypress is located in between the Acorn neighborhood and Lower Bottoms ...
W. Weed Wars. Categories: Television shows set in the United States by city. Oakland, California in fiction. Television shows set in Alameda County, California. Works set in Oakland, California.
Clinton is a neighborhood in Oakland, California, United States. It lies at an elevation of 36 feet (11 m). Clinton started when brothers named Patten leased land on the east side of the San Antonio Slough from Vincent Peralta in 1850, and joined with others to found the town in 1852. [1]
Jingletown is a pocket arts community in Oakland, California, adjacent to the Oakland Estuary, and about two miles southeast of Lake Merritt. It is bounded by the Coast Guard Island Bridge and Fruitvale Bridges, which connect Oakland to the City of Alameda. It is part of the area called Fruitvale (formerly, Brays and Fruit Vale) in East Oakland ...
Aerial view of the initial traffic stop at 74th Avenue and MacArthur. Four police officers in Oakland, California, were fatally shot on March 21, 2009, [a] by Lovelle Mixon, a convicted felon wanted on a no-bail warrant for a parole violation. Mixon shot and killed two police officers of the Oakland Police Department during a routine traffic stop.
Oakland's night skyline viewed from Lake Merritt. The U.S. city of Oakland, California is the site of more than 95 high-rises, the majority of which are located in its downtown district. [1] In the city, there are 30 buildings taller than 200 feet (61 m). The tallest building is the 28- story Ordway Building, which rises 404 feet (123 m).
Crime. Also see overview of crime in Oakland, California. Temescal experiences crime as other neighborhoods in Oakland do. On April 2, 2023, there was a shooting in the 4900 block of Telegraph Avenue that left one person injured. Arts and culture