Belmont Shore is a

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. It is home to many shops, restaurants, salons and business offices.

Geography

Livingston Drive and 2nd Street form the heart of Belmont Shore, from approximately

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on the west to Alamitos Bay and Naples Island on the east. The eastern border on Alamitos Bay Beach is an inland beach that faces Naples Island across a channel. 2nd Street and the fifteen intersecting side streets make up the business district of Belmont Shore. The neighborhood features Spanish-style homes from the 1920s and 1930s, older houses remodeled and expanded into contemporary styles, numerous large contemporary houses, and sections of multifamily apartment buildings. The business district is represented by the Belmont Shore Business Association (BSBA) and the residents are represented by the Belmont Shore Residents Association (BSRA). The southern coast of Belmont Shore is a south-facing Pacific Ocean beach that lies just inside the Long Beach breakwater. Due to the presence of the Federal breakwater, this beach experiences very little surf, and is not as popular for beachgoing during the summer months as are the nearby beaches of Seal Beach or

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, for example. Belmont Shore is a beach going community The area offshore of the ocean beach is, however, popular with kitesurfers, kayakers, and boaters. Each summer, the portion of Bay Shore Avenue south of 2nd Street, at the eastern end of Belmont Shore, is closed to traffic from 9 am until 5 pm and is converted into a pedestrian and bicycle-only zone. At the intersection of 54th Place and Ocean Boulevard, at the southeastern corner of Belmont Shore, lies the entrance to the Peninsula, a narrow, mile-long neighborhood of Long Beach surrounded by water on both sides, and the Alamitos Channel at the far end. The approximately 1900-foot-long retaining wall along Ocean Boulevard was constructed around 1939 by the

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to protect the neighborhood from high tide. The neighborhood was severely impacted by the

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Activities

The Leeway Sailing and Aquatics Center on Alamitos Bay in Belmont Shore is a youth sailing program founded in 1929. The city claims it is one of the premier municipal instructional sailing programs in the country. The US Sailing Center is located on the Alamitos Bay

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in Long Beach. The Sailing Center offers a wide range of programs for high school, college, and Olympic sailors in addition to programs for at-risk youth through local help groups, Learn-to-Sail classes for all ages and disabled sailing opportunities through the Sailing Center's own Disabled Sailing Association. The Belmont Shore Car Show is the largest one-day annual

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held on the west coast. The car show is typically held in September. The Long Beach Sea Festival has ocean- and beach-related events in Belmont Shore. The festival was first staged 50 years ago with a handful of events. Currently, the Sea Festival offers around 100 events, ranging from sand castle building, to free Moonlight Movies on the Beach, to boat racing. Since its inception in August 1964, the

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has grown into one of the major international sailing events. Now held in April, it is the only grade 1 match race regatta held in the United States. The one-on-one race format is the same as the

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, and many of the winners of the Congressional Cup have gone on to win the America's Cup as well. The event is held in the waters off Belmont Shore with spectator areas on the

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is popular in Belmont Shore because of steady side-onshore winds (10 to 25+ knots), large open bodies of water and good launch areas.

Education

Belmont Shore residents are zoned to

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schools: * Lowell Elementary * Will Rogers Middle School * Woodrow Wilson Classical High School

Gallery

File:Belmont Shore Neighborhood, Long Beach, California (6027130338).jpg, 2nd Street and Corona Avenue File:A bulldog at Rosie's Dog Beach.jpg, Rosie's Dog Beach File:5365 E 2nd St.-Engine Co. No. 8 and old police station.jpg, L.B.F.D. Engine Company No. 8, constructed 1929

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