Downtown Oakland, Oakland, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"We came to know the downtown Oakland skyline better than we did any sacred mountain range"

"Just outside downtown Oakland, on Telegraph. We stayed with our mom’s adopted brother Ronald, who we first met the day we got to his house to live with him."

"“We took BART to downtown Oakland. There were certain pockets of uptown where people had nice cars and people like me and Manny could be seen without someone calling the cops right away.”"

"Okay, so Phil lives in a nice apartment in downtown Oakland he got grandfathered into, it’s a big place with fixed rent."