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Encyclopedia > Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, California

Bixby Knolls is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California. Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , Country State County Los Angeles County Government  - Mayor Bob Foster Area  - City  65. ...

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Location

An affluent area of Long Beach nestled between the North Long Beach, California Heights, and Wrigley areas of Long Beach within the 90807 Zip Code. Low end homes in this area start at $600,000 while the higher end homes, a few of which are on gated streets, sell for as much as $4,000,000. To the west of Virginia Country Club is the Los Angeles River bicycle path and the Metro Blue Line. North Long Beach (or the Northside) is a predominately working class area of Long Beach, California. ... California Heights is a historic neighborhood of Long Beach, California. ... The Wrigley District of Long Beach gets its name from William Wrigley the owner an founder of the famed Wrigley Spearmint Gum Empire in Chicago. ... The Los Angeles River bicycle path (or L.A. River bicycle path) is, formally, a short bicycle path in the greater Los Angeles area, paralleling the Los Angeles River for approximately four miles as the river skirts the northern and eastern boundaries of Griffith Park in an area known as... The Metro Blue Line of the Los Angeles County Metro Rail is a light rail line connecting Downtown Los Angeles at the 7th St/Metro Center station and Downtown Long Beach. ...


Description

The area has a large shopping center and a concentration of retail, restaurants, and small businesses, especially along Atlantic Avenue. The area has long had a large Jewish population, but is increasingly multi-ethnic. The Richard Goad Theater, home to the Long Beach Shakespeare Company, is on Atlantic Bouelevard, near Carson.


Schools

Long Beach Unified School District serves Bixby Knolls. The Long Beach Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Long Beach, California. ...


The two Bixby Knolls public schools are Longfellow Elementary School [1] and Hughes Middle School. For high school residents are zoned to Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Charles Evans Hughes Middle School is a public middle school, part of the Long Beach Unified School District in Long Beach, California. ... This article is about the polytechnic high school in California. ...


Parks

The Bixby Knolls Park is in the area.


Historical Places

Long Beach's Virginia Country Club golf course and Rancho Los Cerritos, a city owned historical site, are located in the adjacent Los Cerritos and Virginia Country Club neighborhoods, sometimes considered a part of Bixby Knolls.


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