24/7 · van ~23 min out

Coverage

Every San Leandro neighborhood, plus the neighbors.

The van stands off Davis Street, so most of the city is about 23 minutes away. Bay-O-Vista, Bayfair and Alameda run longer, and each area page says by how much.

San Leandro neighborhoods

Inside San Leandro

Downtown & East 14th

~15 min

The main street through the middle of the city, with Washington Avenue, the Bal Theatre, the BART station and the short cross streets. Storefronts at the sidewalk, rented flats on the floors above, public lots behind the buildings. Fifteen minutes from the van on Davis Street.

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Estudillo Estates & Best Manor

~15 min

Wide streets off Estudillo Avenue, with Best Manor beside them and the Casa Peralta at the edge. Houses from the twenties through the forties, deep lawns, transoms, heavy front doors, garages sitting at the end of a long strip driveway. Fifteen minutes from the van, and most of this work lands before lunch.

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Broadmoor

~19 min

The curved blocks off Broadmoor Boulevard and Bancroft Avenue. Spanish-revival houses from the thirties with tile porches, arched front doors, casement windows on cranks, a mail slot in the door, and an iron gate down one flank to a garage at the rear. Nineteen minutes from Davis Street.

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Bay-O-Vista & the hills

~26 min

The slope above the city toward the ridge. Houses stepping down cut lots, retaining walls, driveways that climb hard off MacArthur Boulevard, detached garages, lower entries under the deck, in-law rooms on the bottom floor. Twenty-six minutes, the longest run on the district map.

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Washington Manor & Floresta Gardens

~24 min

The grid south of the airport between Washington Avenue and Hesperian Boulevard. Single-story houses built in the fifties, garages facing the street, aluminum screen doors, patio sliders at the back, side gates on a hasp, and planes crossing low. Twenty-four minutes from Davis Street.

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Marina & Mulford Gardens

~21 min

The San Leandro Marina, Monarch Bay, Marina Park and the shoreline path, with Mulford Gardens on the flat behind. Dock boxes and storage lockers, gangway gates, boats and trailers on driveways, a park lot that fills early on a Saturday. Twenty-one minutes from the van.

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Bayfair & Halcyon-Foothill

~26 min

Bayfair Center and its lots, the Bay Fair BART station and garage, and the apartment blocks along Halcyon Drive and Foothill Boulevard. Courtyards on a code, carports at the rear, unit numbering that ignores the street. Twenty-six minutes, and longer when the freeway is heavy.

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Davis Street & the works

~17 min

The industrial ground west of the tracks along Davis Street and out toward Alvarado Street. Warehouses, body shops, small factories, freight docks, fenced yards and the old bottling works. Steel in steel frames, chains and padlocks, an exit device on every rear wall. The van is based off this street, so seventeen minutes is a short number.

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Beside the city

The cities beside it

San Lorenzo

~26 min

The unincorporated grid between Hesperian Boulevard and Lewelling Boulevard, with the Village at the middle of it. Small houses put up in the forties, flat straight streets, clipped hedges at the sidewalk, garages that became bedrooms, and a shopping center with a colonnade. Twenty-six minutes down Hesperian.

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Ashland

~28 min

The unincorporated stretch running north up East 14th Street from the city line. Older houses on deep narrow lots, fourplexes and small blocks, cottages tucked behind the front house, markets, taquerias and repair shops on the boulevard. Twenty-eight minutes from Davis Street.

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Oakland

~26 min

The city that begins where San Leandro ends, reached up East 14th and International Boulevard or on the Nimitz. Victorians cut into flats, bungalows from the twenties on the level blocks, houses stepping up the hill above the freeway, older apartment buildings with a street door and a stair, and shopfronts strung along avenues that run for miles. Twenty-six minutes from Davis Street.

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Oakland Airport & Doolittle

~24 min

The airport parking lots, the rental returns, the hotels along the drive and the cargo and freight yards behind the fence line. Cars left standing for a week or two, shuttle stops, red-eye arrivals. Twenty-four minutes from Davis Street, and almost all of this work is automotive.

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Alameda

~30 min

Alameda, reached over the bridge from Doolittle Drive, is roughly thirty minutes from Davis Street, and the figures there are the San Leandro figures.

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24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays

Houses in the morning, shop floors after, and the figure said before either one starts

San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Ashland, Oakland, the airport and Doolittle strip, and Alameda across the channel, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one figure with the $89 visit inside it and the unit it is counted in, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said, whether the deed is in your name or the lease is.