Originally Posted by
7rider
How is the Belle Haven neighborhood these days? I have friends who used to live on Ringwood, and we did a ride once across that overpass, then across 84 for a ride in the East Bay. But I did that ride back in 1997. Belle Haven looked a bit run down back then, but that was no reason to remove a bike/pedestrian bridge.
It's basically a barrio. 68% hispanic, 25% black, 3% white, 44% foreign born, 42% high school dropouts. As far as crime goes, there are worse places than Belle Haven. Most houses don't even have bars on windows. KGO-TV crime map shows 51 incidents in Belle Haven since the beginning of the year, vs. 11 incidents in Flood Park in the same period of time.