Park St, Bronze Coast

Park Street is Alameda's business center, featuring tons of restaurants and shops and a newly refurbished and rebuilt movie theater that is the first to operate in the city in years. An ideal living location would probably be a few blocks off the street in order to preserve some quiet, but there are some locations towards the Bay end of the street that are less crowded than the central area further towards Oakland.

Any house nearby provides easy access to Alameda High School, a few bars, a ton of restaurants (everything from Italian to Burmese, and a couple outstanding burrito spots). Influx of coffee shops has increased foot traffic and made Park a really pleasant place to hang out. Other cool features are the annual Art and Wine Fair in the summer and easy access to Alameda's newly remodeled library.

Downsides to the street are lack of access to public transit (besides a few AC Transit lines), but this is a consistent problem for all of Alameda. Other locations in the city have slightly better access to trails and parks as well.