There is fast WiFi in the house:

• name: simpsonian
• password: Baking8743covering$

If there is an outage, check to make sure the router is still plugged in. Check with other tenants, then unplug router for 10 minutes. You can contact Jessica – she is usually informed by xfinity about outages in the area. 

Bathroom: please clean up after yourself in the sink, floor, bath areas. There should be one drawer per person in the dresser for storage, as well as the little shelf area. Extra cleaning supplies and toilet paper are in the hall closet. 

Kitchen: please clean up after yourself – spills, counter, floor. Wash, dry and put away dishes so they don’t pile up in the drainer. 

Living room, front walk, dining room: please keep these areas clean, including sweeping the front walk occasionally for safety reasons. The vacuum for the halls, living room, dining room and your rooms is kept in the hall or the hall closet. There are vacuum bags for it in the hall closet. 

Since there is so much community shared area, it works best if chores are rotated weekly in groups. For example:

• kitchen counters, sweep floors, sink area, refrigerator, & stove; take out garbage & recycling
• vacuum dining room, living room, kitchen rugs, sweep walk as needed
• vacuum hall, wipe down bathroom sink, toilet, tub and clean floor

This may seem like a lot, but if it is maintained weekly, along with everyone cleaning up after themselves, it should come out to about a half hour per person per week.

There are lots of places to walk around here. The Berkeley Path Wanderers Association publishes a great map of all the little hidden walkways, but here are some suggestions:

Up to the park and back

1. Walk a few hundred meters north to the Rose Garden and Codornices park
2. Explore the paths in the park
3. Walk back home. Easy!

A short circle

1. Go a few steps south and then walk UP Hawthorne Terrace one block
2. Continue up the stairs (“La Loma Steps”) up another block to Buena Vista
3. Walk uphill a few more meters and turn left onto Greenwood Terrace.

• Halfway along the block you will find Greenwood Common behind a gate. It’s private property, but they don’t mind polite and quiet visitors: go in, walk to the end of the common and admire the view.

4. Return and continue along Greenwood Terrace to Rose Street, head back downhill (don’t follow the curve left onto LeRoy) and continue down Rose Walk.
5. When you reach Euclid, turn left and you’ll be back home in a few steps.

A bigger circle

1. Go north a few hundred meters to Codornices park
2. Go to the back left corner of the park, past the baby play area to where a bridge crosses the creek
3. There are some concrete stairs that go up from this point into the hills

• Did you notice these stairs by the bridge when you were wandering around the park in the first walk? Here’s where they go…

4. Go up these stairs — there are maybe 100 or so — and you come out on Tamalpais Rd.

• You can either turn either right (downhill) to shorten the walk a bit, or turn left (uphill). Assuming you chose uphill:

5. Follow Tamalpais up the hill a few hundred meters and then turn right to go downhill on Shasta Ave.
6. Follow Shasta back down the hill: there are some beautiful homes and canyons here.
7. You will join Tamalpais (this is where get to if you turned right in the choice above) just next to Rose St.
8. Follow Rose and Rose Walk down to Euclid and home, just like the end of the smaller circle walk.

For the foodies

• Cross Euclid and walk 50m south (left) to find the top of Vine Lane. This path becomes Vine Street and takes you to the heart of the “Gourmet Ghetto” with some great eating and shopping options. (Some highlights: the farmer’s market each Thursday; the Cheese Board Collective.) It’s just a half mile down the hill, but then it’s a half mile back up!

Other walking possibilities

We love our neighborhood! There are so many options for walking around that we can’t list them all. But here are a few other ideas.

• Try going up Buena Vista past Hillside School, past Maybeck Twin Drive, and past the Temple of the Wings and Hume Castle. For an alternate walk down to the Gourmet Ghetto, go down Hawthorne Terrace about 50m, to find and descend Hawthorne Steps.
• Just north of the campus on Spruce are the charming Normandy Apartments; the Seminaries and churches on “Holy Hill” at Ridge and LeConte are nice, and right on the way if you’re walking to Tolman hall or that part of the campus.
• Try walking to the top of campus by going UP Hawthorne, turning right on LeRoy and following it all the way to Cedar, then on to campus along LeRoy and LeRoy steps, or else up Cedar to La Loma and thence down La Loma to the top corner of campus at Founders’ Rock. If you’re walking to campus, keep trying new routes!
• On the weekends only, the 67 bus runs through Tilden Park. There are miles and miles of hiking trails there, as well as a swimming lake, barbecues, and a restored carousel. Just  walk a few blocks down to Spruce and catch the 67 up the hill.

What time is the next bus down the hill?

The bus runs on weekdays only.

• AC transit schedule(arrives at Vine Lane about 5-7 minutes after leaving Euclid & Grizzly)

What architectural wonders and landmarks are nearby?

Although the campus itself is rich in beautiful buildings, there are lots of notable buildings among the homes right in your neighborhood. Technically slightly too far to be called Northside, we call it that anyway and always have.

• You are only steps from Rose Walk (about 60m north), a listed heritage site
• There are many homes in the area by the architect Bernard Maybeck, including the nearby Nixon-Kennedy house just one block down Euclid at the corner of Buena Vista.
• The Berkeley Rose Garden and Codornices park are connected by a short pedestrian tunnel, passing under Euclid Ave and what was once a light rail trestle bridge. There are public tennis courts at the Rose Garden.

I’d like to go for a nice walk, where should I go?

We’ve made a whole list of suggestions just for you.

Are there special places to visit in Berkeley?

Of course. Aside from walking in the neighborhood or hiking in Tilden Park, there are a number of other things you might want to do:

• The Berkeley pier and marina are at the very end of University Avenue where it reaches the bay. When the weather’s right this is a lovely place to stroll, watch boats, and get a great perspective looking around the bay and back up at Berkeley and the hills behind.
• The most important of all the Maybeck buildings is the First Church of Christ Scientist, on Dwight Way right next to People’s Park. This structure, which caused outrage when Maybeck built it from “profane” industrial materials, is a designated National Landmark. Tour: first Sunday of the month at 12:15.
• There’s a wonderful pocket of “bobo” shopping and dining in west Berkeley on Fourth Street. This area was once part of the separate town of Ocean View before being the incorporation of Berkeley in 1878.
• Brunch is a big deal in Berkeley. Favorite places downtown are Venus and La Note, both on Shattuck just north and south of Durant, respectively. Harder to reach without a car are the Homemade Cafe at Dwight and Sacramento, or Rick & Ann’s on Domingo (just below the massive Claremont Hotel). All are excellent, but as are many others not listed here.
• The campus itself is a delight. You can go up the Campanile (the way we locals pronounce this it rhymes with “touchy-feely”); pause a while in the area in the Faculty Glade; when walking up to the campus from BART/downtown, always go through the Eucalyptus grove — but watch out, the squirrels will bite your finger.
• Telegraph Avenue sometimes closed to vehicles on weekends, and craft stalls line the streets. This is the most fun that Telegraph gets — “The Ave is a trip, man…”

Welcome to the 1445 Euclid Avenue website. This site contains information and resources to help you while you are living here. From this website, you can:

• look up emergency contact information
• submit help tickets for supplies, maintenance, etc.
• find links and useful information about local stuff

We hope you find the website useful and invite your comments.

Emergency contacts:

• Kate’s phone: 510-821-4032
• Andrew Fuchs (Kate’s son): 510-520-0686
• Jessica Jones (Kate’s daughter): 646-243-2718
• Note that Andrew lives in Oregon and Jessica lives in New York.

Fire extinguishers:

• one located just inside the front door
• one located at the top of the stairs

In case of wildfire evacuation:

• during fire season when it’s hot and dry, there is some risk of wildfires coming over the Berkeley hills from the east
• you’re much too far down the hill for this to pose a risk, normally
• in case you do need to prepare for an evacuation, see this City of Berkeley web page

In case of a major earthquake:

• relax, you are in a wooden structure: this is the safest type of structure
• stay away from windows and be careful of broken and falling objects
• be prepared for a period without services like police/fire/ambulance: don’t get injured!

You should keep shoes and a flashlight next to your bed in case of an earthquake (protect your feet from broken glass, see at night with the power off.