The district is made up of a number of smaller neighborhoods, each with its own distinct personality, history and demographics. • Bella Vista • Cleveland Heights • Clinton • East Peralta • Eastlake/Merritt • Highland Park • Highland Terrace • Ivy Hill • Jingletown • Lynn • Meadow Brook • Oak Tree • Rancho San Antonio • Reservoir Hill • Tuxedo
Cleveland Heights Cleveland Heights, also known as Haddon Hill by local realtors, is located at the northwestern corner of the San Antonio district, perched on a hill overlooking
Lake Merritt. It was formerly the township of Brooklyn prior to its annexation by Oakland in 1909. The neighborhood is commonly known as the area encompassed by Lakeshore Avenue on Lake Merritt, East 18th Street, Park Boulevard, and MacArthur Boulevard/
I-580 MacArthur Freeway. The neighborhood includes
Oakland High School in the east corner of the neighborhood. It is commonly known as China Hill because of the large
Chinese population that lives there.
Eastlake The Eastlake district, formerly known as East Peralta, comprises the area along International Blvd. between 1st and 14th Avenues. It is currently the site of an
ethnic enclave, housing many immigrants of
southeast Asian origin. East 12th Street has a large
Vietnamese American population, and has many Vietnamese restaurants and businesses, giving it the nickname
Little Saigon, which the local Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce is working to elevate into a formal designation by the city and to promote through a
Business Improvement District. There is a Vietnamese American Community Center located at International Boulevard. There are also sizable populations of
Cambodian Americans and
Laotian Americans.
Highland Park Highland Park is the area immediately surrounding
Highland Hospital, bounded by 13th Avenue on the west, 14th Avenue to the east, East 32nd Street to the north and East 24th Street to the south.
Funktown Funktown's boundaries are east of 5th Avenue and west of 18th Avenue, south of East 28th Street and north of East 14th Street. The name Funktown derives from the name of a local gang Funktown USA that once occupied the area. The gang was a notorious rival of Felix Mitchell's 6-9 Mob as the two struggled for control over the East Oakland drug trade. As Funktown USA's membership dwindled in the late 1980s. East Oakland residents simply referred to the area as "Funktown".
Jingletown The subsection of the neighborhood adjacent to the
Oakland Estuary is called Jingletown. The name originated from long ago when there was a
Portuguese community in the area and men would gather around on the street corners chatting amongst each other with their hands in their pockets jingling coins.
Lynn Lynn was an early settlement, located northeast of Brooklyn. It is also known as "The Rolling '20s", references to its history of drug trafficking and gang violence. The area was known as The Twomps in the 1980s, but became known as Murder Dubbs in the early 1990s due to a dramatic rise in drug-related violence. The landmark avenue for the Twomps is 23rd Avenue, which also serves as the primary thoroughfare for which Twomps residents get to other main city boulevards. 23rd Avenue is heavily traveled on for its numerous stores, laundromats, and other neighborhood services. ==References==