The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including San Francisco Bay, and anchored by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.
Janani Ramachandran is the City Councilmember for Oakland's District 4 which includes the neighborhoods of Laurel, Dimond, Allendale, Glenview, Montclair, Redwood Heights, and North Hills.
Funktown. Funktown's boundaries are east of 5th Avenue and west of 18th Avenue, south of East 28th Street and north of East 14th Street. The name Funktown derives from the name of a local gang Funktown USA that once occupied the area.
Alcatraz Avenue runs east-west for two miles roughly along the Oakland-Berkeley border, which it crosses three times.
Begin on the Oakland/Berkeley border at 6323 College Avenue; then, in an Easterly direction along the boundary of the City of Oakland, to a point where said boundary first intersects the right of way of Tunnel Road (State Route 13); then in a direct line to the easterly end of Chabot Road; then due south to Broadway; ...
Neighbouring communities include Berkeley (north), San Leandro (south), and Alameda (west, on Alameda Island), and Oakland completely surrounds the city of Piedmont.
The region is home to three major cities: San Francisco, Oakland and, the largest, San Jose.
The region is home to three major cities: San Francisco, Oakland and, the largest, San Jose. The Bay Area has been inhabited since antiquity, first by the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, followed by the Spanish, who first arrived in 1769 and established the area's first mission, Mission San Francisco de AsÃs, in 1776.