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West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California, United States, situated west of Downtown Oakland, south of Emeryville, and north of Alameda. The neighborhood is located along the waterfront at the Port of Oakland and at the eastern end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge .
Downtown and West Oakland are located entirely in the flatlands, while North and East Oakland incorporate lower hills and flatlands neighborhoods. This hills/flatlands division extends beyond Oakland's borders into neighboring cities in the East Bay's urban core such as Berkeley , Hayward , San Leandro , and Richmond .
Prescott (also known as The Lower Bottoms or The Bottoms [1]) is a residential neighborhood and commercial district in West Oakland in Oakland, California.The neighborhood boundaries are Mandela Parkway to the east, 7th Street to the south, West Grand Avenue to the north, and Frontage Road to the west.
Aerial view of the West Oakland Yards in December 2022 The West Oakland Yards are a rail yard facility in West Oakland, Oakland, California , in the United States. Formerly a major facility for the Southern Pacific Railroad , the yards have been operated by Union Pacific Railroad since 1996.
West Oakland station in 2018. By August 1965, the city of Oakland desired to call the planned station Oakland West. [3] BART approved the name that December. [4] The station opened on September 16, 1974 – the last station of the initial BART system to open – with the beginning of service through the Transbay Tube. [5]
Cypress Village is one of the three housing projects in West Oakland, along with the Campbell Village Court and the Acorn Projects. Cypress Village was built by the Oakland Housing Authority after World War II, when many African-Americans began to migrate to Oakland. It was one of four all-black segregated projects built at the time. [1]
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Ranked fifteenth on Time Out's coolest neighborhoods in the world list in 2020, [3] the community is known for its violence and blight. [1] [4] [5] Some people believe the name originates from a drug kingpin who referred to the area as a ghost town due to the shortage of other drug dealers whose absence was attributed to the kingpin's dominance over the area. [2]