Coverage
Every Berkeley neighborhood, plus the neighbors.
Vans stage near University Ave and San Pablo Ave, so most of the city is about 19 minutes away. The hills run longer, and each area page says by how much.
Berkeley neighborhoods
Inside Berkeley
Downtown Berkeley
~12 minShattuck Ave shops behind aluminum and glass, small office suites on the floors above them, two BART garages, and theater nights that run long after the retail doors have been keyed shut.
Local pageSouthside & Telegraph
~14 minThe blocks below campus: Telegraph Ave shops, co-ops, shared flats and houses of five or six, where keys have been circulating since long before anyone now living there signed a lease.
Local pageNorth Berkeley & the Gourmet Ghetto
~15 minShattuck north of University with its bakeries, wine shops and dining rooms, quiet blocks of shingle and stucco houses one street back, and North Berkeley BART at the western edge.
Local pageElmwood
~16 minHouses from the 1910s and 20s on the streets either side of College Ave, owners who have carried the same key for decades, side gates onto narrow driveways, and a compact row of shops around Ashby Ave.
Local pageBerkeley Hills
~26 minWinding roads above Euclid Ave and Grizzly Peak Blvd, houses set a flight or two off the street, gates at the sidewalk, garages tucked under the living room, and the longest honest estimate in the city.
Local pageWest Berkeley
~16 minThe flats west of San Pablo Ave: converted warehouses, workshops, small laboratories and design studios, plus the Fourth Street retail row and the cottages tucked between them.
Local pageClaremont
~20 minBig older homes on the slopes below and above the Claremont Hotel, sloped driveways and back stairs, side doors nobody has used in years, and blocks where a one in the morning call finishes without waking anyone.
Local pageThousand Oaks & Westbrae
~18 minBungalows from the 1920s to the 1940s on family streets in the north-west corner of the city, Solano Ave shops at one end, Indian Rock Park at the other, and detached garages that were never keyed to the house.
Local pageNearby cities
The cities beside it
Albany
~17 minA city of about one square mile north of Berkeley: bungalows and duplexes on short blocks, the Solano Ave shopping street, apartment buildings under Albany Hill, and a quick run up from anywhere in Berkeley.
Local pageKensington
~21 minAn unincorporated hillside village above Berkeley: Arlington Ave with its short row of shops, one-lane streets that curl back into each other, older homes behind gates, and fog that often arrives before the van does.
Local pageEl Cerrito
~20 minEl Cerrito is covered from Berkeley at the same published figures, about twenty minutes up San Pablo Ave or along the Arlington.
Local pageEmeryville
~18 minEmeryville is reached in about eighteen minutes down Ashby Ave or San Pablo Ave, and is worked at the same figures as the Berkeley flats.
Local pageRichmond Annex
~24 minThe Annex, the narrow piece of Richmond between El Cerrito and the shoreline, is reached in about twenty-four minutes at the same published figures.
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