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"New Chinatown" as described in your East Oakland article, is not any sort of official, accepted, or accurate name to describe a district or neighborhood here, in District 2, in Oakland.
I have lived here for 29 years, in the "Lower San Antonio", "Greater Grand Lake", "Clinton Park", "Brooklyn tract".... all of these are the same approximate area, and all have some historic and verifiable basis for being called by these names.
"New Chinatown" was coined by some Chinese Realtors based in Oakland's Chinatown, approximately five years ago. A sign appeared one day on International Blvd. (formerly E.14th St.) at 5th Ave. saying, "Welcome to New Chinatown". The sign was immediately removed. The merchants on that strip, a mix of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Laotian, African American, Caucasian, Hispanic, one German, had gotten together and voted to form "Eastlake Merchants Association". Eastlake had become a popular term to unify and describe the area immediately east of Lake Merritt. This was a way to define the general area and include the Brooklyn, Clinton etc. neighborhoods under one umbrella. This neighborhood is at the nexus of several, and has the smaller "Clinton Park" designation, within greater "Brooklyn", and then "San Antonio" and "Lower San Antonio". "Eastlake" is admitedly a modern consensus reached name... however there was a process in arriving at this name.. a group of established merchants representing the diverse nature of the area voted and came up with this "Eastlake" name, and it has been generally well received. Everyone I have talked to admits "Eastlake" is not a historic name. Some choose to call the area, "San Antonio, Brooklyn, Clinton Park".
As the owner of La Estrellita Restaurant (a well loved establishment in the area for over thirty years) said: "I live in the Fruitvale, and you don't hear anyone there (in this overwhemingly Hispanic district) trying to change the name to "New Tijuana" or "El Barrio"..
This district 2, in Oakland, has been noted by the City as being the most ethnically diverse in the city. I inquired about the "New Chinatown" label about two years ago, when I saw several Chinatown based realtors using this name, and the Council office said, "we aren't hearing it being call New Chinatown, and don't see it as an issue".
The use of the name "New Chinatown" suggests at worst "steering", by realtors with a biased investment, and at best, simple, general ignorance by others.
The local realtor's board should be putting some effort into clarifying names of districts and neighborhoods, as they have a responsibility to insure accuracy. There was some effort put into this, and I will follow up on this. Apparently, there is a lot of "room" to get names put in the Multiple Listing Service for neighborhood designations, (as lobbied by realtors), so this brings up another interesting issue, which may lead to answers as to why "New Chinatown" has become OK for some to use.
I have no objection to a neighborhood or district's entitlement to call itself what it wants to after some sort of large scale community process with accountabilty and legitimate process. The mere idea that an increase in population of one ethnic group and the people who would benefit financially from this increase would justify a name change to an neighborhood is objectional, offensive, and disturbing to me.
I am of Irish descent. If I were to bring all my friends and relatives from Ireland and create a little enclave, could I go ahead and advertise us in the Multiple Listing Service and Newspaper AND in MAPS such as on Wikipedia etc.. as "New Dublin", or "Little Ireland". I surely think Fruitvale could make a case that it is ripe for being changed to "New Guadalajara"; and frankly I could make more of a case that the influx of Hispanics there would justify that name change, more than the Chinese influx here in Brooklyn, Eastlake, Clinton Park, Lower San Antonio.
Thank you.
Ellen Lynch —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.200.116.137 (talk • contribs) 06:01, 15 January 2006
I think the small neighborhood of Glenview is not East Oakland and shouldn't be merged in it. Its a nice quiet area by itself without the riches of Montclair or Piedmont, but not the gangs and poverty of east oakland.
I want to add to the history section to talk more about the changing population over time and some of the causes of their current economic statuses. I think that there is much more to East Oakland than the name changes of some roads. I also want to add a little section on the gentrification of Oakland because that also plays a big part in the relocation of ethnic minorities to the area. Though I will generally discuss demographics, I think there should also be a section of demographics either as its own or as a subsection of history to mention the actual statistical change of the diversity of the population. Cciotti22 (talk) 19:36, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
It is my understanding that West Oakland is what was predominately Black during and after WWII, with many areas of East Oakland remaining predominately white into the 1960s. Neanderthalprimadonna 02:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
East Oakland is a notable food desert because of the lack of stores with nutritious or fresh food which plays a major part in the lives of the people who live in the area because they live without food security. I will have a link to the food desert page if people want more details on what specifically that is and why east Oakland classifies as one. I want to have a general outline of stores available in the area and what implications that has on the people. There have also been movements by schools and corner stores to try and address issues with food scarcity that I will address more in this section. Cciotti22 (talk) 19:36, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
If we do merge the article, where exactly would we put the information? Should we rework the article to include something small about each Neighbourhood?--JUDE talk 19:10, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
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Thank you for confirming that you have no evidence for your claim and no familiarity with the subject. Have you even ever visited this area? An editor with some familiarity with the area would be much better placed to judge the overall credibility of the existing content, and focus attention on actual problems.
Let's start with the Jingletown, USA article itself. You have not even participated on the article's talk page. I will concentrate on the local content instead of the Green Day song, which I don't know about. The article already contains references for the most specific subjects, the three arts schools mentioned. It's hard to tell what you are asserting is nonverifiable in the local content - is it hard to confirm that this is the name of a neighborhood in Oakland, California? Let's start with the ten Google hits for "Jingletown", eliminate the three hits for Wikipedia and mirrors, and see what we can verify from the remaining seven pages, without even clicking through to other pages on their sites.
Again, would you like to point to any claims that are unsubstantiated?
You are of course free to initiate AfD rather than actually addressing the content - by the way, your threat puts the lie to your earlier suggestion that you are defending the content against AfD by others.
I suggest you focus your verifiability improvement work on areas of knowledge you actually have some knowledge of. --JWB 04:01, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
All content on Jingletown has been moved to San Antonio, Oakland, CA, as that is the official name of the district that Jingletown is located in. Steve CarlsonTalk 19:01, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
At the moment Elmhurst, Oakland, California is a stub. Articles grow more quickly when more people view them, and more people will view the parent article. The information as it stands at the moment is more useful when considered as part of the parent article where it can be discussed alongside the general information on East Oakland. When and if the info on Elmhurst grows beyond a couple of paragraphs it can be then broken out in WP:Summary style into a stand alone article. SilkTork *What's YOUR point? 09:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
This section has been moved to the Oakland Hills, Oakland, California page. The Oakland Hills are demographically different than the flatlands. Binksternet (talk) 15:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I read in Michener, James A. "IV: From the starving village". Hawaii. Fawcett Crest Book. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. p.593. ISBN 0-449-21335-8. ...and when after a long walk through Oakland they stood before a well he had recently dug he pointed with unconcealed admiration at a pipe protruding from the ground, from which gushed a steady volume of water that rose fourteen feet into the air.
“Does it run like this all the time?” Whip asked.
“Day and night,” Overpeck replied
“What does it?”
“Artesian, that's what it is. Artesian.”
“How many gallons a day?”
“A million four.”
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and in "Alameda". Pacific Bank Handbook of California: San Francisco, Cal., USA. 1888. pp. p.22. Retrieved 2008-03-08. Lake Chabot, referred to above, has a capacity of 15,000,000,000 gallons of water, besides the supply of the old lake near Temescal, which last, with the large artesian well at East Oakland, was the only water supply previous to 1875.
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Is the well still around? Still running? Visible as described (spectacular)? Or has it been capped? “Inquiring minds wanna know”. A Google search results in what seems to indicate that there are several artesian well drillers around there.
Thanks in advance, --Jerome Potts (talk) 07:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm all for merging Laurel with the East Oakland discussion if only for the sake of raising awareness and increasing discussion, but on the other hand, it is open to interpretation whether the neighborhood belongs to that grouping or whether it belongs to the Oakland Hills area, as the Upper Laurel area north of MacArthur Blvd changes in elevation and gains views of the San Francisco Bay as it continues towards Redwood Heights, and the character is quite distinct from the Allendale neighborhood underneath the 580 freeway. Opinions seem to differ on how to categorize the Laurel.
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In this section, I wanted to focus on health specifically within East Oakland. This ties into demographics and expands on its relationship along with socioeconomic status and how it influences different aspects of health within the population. I decided to include life expectancy, health conditions, healthcare access, and healthcare coverage. I believe that discussing health disparities within this region of the East Bay will be informative to those both currently in East Oakland, those looking to move into East Oakland, and people generally wanting to receive further understanding regarding East Oakland itself.
I am a lifelong Oakland resident and I go to East Oakland often for shopping (Hispanic groceries, hair cuts). Several of the neighborhoods listed as being in East Oakland I have never heard of. "Canyon Oaks" is a gated apartment complex with Sequoyah and "Greenridge" is a street in Sequoyah. "Malcolm Heights "is Chabot Park, "Seneca Toler" is two separate neighborhoods Toler Heights and Oak Knoll Golf Links, Castlewood and Flintridge are streets in Oak Knoll Golf Links as is Blandon/Glenly/Fontaine"Never heard of "The Gate" in my lifetime in Oakland maybe this is the gate by the San Leandro border. "Monte Vista Villas" is a subdivision with Caballo Hills in an old quarry. There is a bus stop going to Skyline High school named this but I don't think this is considered a neighborhood .Where's the source for the East Oakland hood list Many of the neighborhoods are there some aren't and there are some that aren't even neighborhoods at least not anymore. Also make a distinction between hill and flatland hoods. Kirk345 (talk) 02:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC) I looked this up this are neigborhoods on Nextdoor. Nextdoor creates its own neigborhoods that aren't recognized by the city,Google maps or real. I estate sites I would recommend included only neighborhoods from Google Maps as these are they only neiborhoods recognized by the city
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