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WEBThe city spent nearly $1 million investigating whether it could silence passing trains’ horns. After learning that the price tag could hit hundreds of millions, Berkeley decided not to continue — but a broad range of safety improvements are still coming to the city’s rail crossings. by Alex N. Gecan September 9, 2024.
Redlining: The history of Berkeley’s segregated neighborhoods
WEBSep 20, 2018 · Betty Reid Soskin, a 96-year-old Berkeley community member and the nation’s oldest park ranger, remembers those times.In the 1940s and 1950s, racial housing discrimination was just a fact of life, she said. “We knew that we could not buy property above Grove Street [now known as Martin Luther …
6 maps showing how Berkeley has changed in the last 10 years
WEBJul 17, 2022 · We broke down shifts in population, housing and racial demographics to individual blocks. Berkeley now has a population of about 124,000 people, up by 11,700 residents in the last 10 years for a growth rate of 10%. Berkeley grew more slowly than Oakland (13%), but more rapidly than San Francisco (8.5%).
Berkeley’s most ambitious homeless housing project ever breaks …
WEBJul 7, 2020 · Berkeley’s most ambitious homeless housing project ever breaks ground. The project also includes 89 units of affordable housing, at 50%-60% of the area median income, that will be available to the general public on a lottery basis. It is slated to open in 2022. Tuesday’s groundbreaking for the Berkeley Way project included (from right) Brad ...
Where Kamala Harris lived in Berkeley as a child
WEBAug 19, 2024 · 1227 Bancroft Way. People took to the street in front of Harris’ childhood home at 1227 Bancroft Way after she was elected vice president on Nov. 7, 2020. Credit: Wayne Hsieh/Flickr. Harris’ mother then moved the family to a new rental home in West Berkeley, on Bancroft Way, between Browning and Bonar streets.
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Live theater returns to Berkeley Rep with 'Wintertime'
WEBNov 19, 2021 · Charles L. Mee’s ‘Wintertime’ is the Berkeley Rep’s first live production since the beginning of lockdown. Nora el Samahy (Maria), David Ryan Smith (Edmund), Micah Peoples (Jonathan), James Carpenter (Frank), and Thomas Jay Ryan (Francois) in Berkeley Rep’s production of Charles L. Mee’s Wintertime, directed by Les Waters.
First person: The best lap swim pools in the East Bay
WEBMar 15, 2017 · Spieker Pool on the Cal campus in Berkeley (hours and info). $20 for a day pass, or join Berkeley Rec Sports for $65/month. This is a big outdoor pool with clear cool water and few amenities, located three blocks from the Hearst Pool. Not generally open for morning lap swims, this is a pool for later in the day.
Confused about recycling in Berkeley? We answer your top 10 …
WEBNov 13, 2019 · Berkeley Recycling/Community Recycling Center, 699 Gilman St., (510) 524-0113, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. The buyback at the same address is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Website: berkeleyrecycling.org. City of Berkeley’s Transfer Station, 1201 Second St.
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