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The Piedmont Avenue neighborhood is a district in North Oakland, California. It is named after Piedmont Avenue, the main commercial street of the district. The neighborhood is bounded by Broadway on the west, Oakland Avenue and City of Piedmont (a separate municipality, an enclave within Oakland) on the East, the Mountain View Cemetery on the north, and the MacArthur Freeway (Interstate 580) on the south.
Piedmont Avenue Elementary School, located north of the business district, has grades Kindergarten through 5th. Attendance is roughly 350; average class size about 20. Average test scores are somewhat below average for American schools, but have been improving in recent years. The Catholic Church of Saint Leo the Great also operates a school on Piedmont Avenue.
There are several landmarks in the area. The center of the Piedmont Avenue commercial strip is a Julia Morgan-designed 1916 red brick building, the Fred C. Turner Stores, which is at the corner of 40th St. and Piedmont Avenue. Next door is the location of the first Longs Drugs store, which is now home to a tapas bar. At the north end of Piedmont Avenue and Pleasant Valley Avenue is the hillside Mountain View Cemetery, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and contains the Julia Morgan designed Chapel of the Chimes. Kaiser Permanente's flagship hospital is located in the southern part of the neighborhood.
Piedmont Avenue was once the terminus of the Key System's C line. The station building at 41st Street is still there, but a parking lot now occupies the land where the tracks were. Several AC Transit bus lines now serve the neighborhood.
A small park east of Piedmont Avenue contains an open-air section of Glen Echo Creek.
The Piedmont Avenue commercial area features numerous locally-owned small businesses, including shops, bars and restaurants, an independent movie theater, and a many specialty stores. There are several coffee and tea houses and a number of restaurants with diverse types of food. There is a full-service grocery and several smaller food stores.
External links
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- Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Community List
- Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League
- Interactive Map - Oakland Convention and Visitors Bureau
- East Bay Neighborhoods: Piedmont Avenue, Oakland - Guide from the San Francisco Chronicle
- Mountain View Cemetery
- Echo Creek
- Oakland City Councilmember Jane Brunner, who represents the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood
