North Berkeley is a neighborhood of
Berkeley, California
Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...
. It is situated north of
downtown, spanning from Hearst Avenue to Eunice Street, and touches the northwest corner of the
UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...
campus.
North Berkeley's primary business district is known as the
Gourmet Ghetto. The
North Berkeley BART station is located just outside the far western edge of the neighborhood; the
Downtown Berkeley BART station is closer to the Gourmet Ghetto. North Berkeley is sometimes defined to include the
Northbrae and
Thousand Oaks
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neighborhoods;
North Berkeley neighborhood in Berkeley, California (CA), 94703, 94706, 94707, 94709 detailed profile
/ref> however, all three areas are distinct local neighborhoods.
References
Neighborhoods in Berkeley, California
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