24/7 · van ~24 min out

Coverage

Every Hayward neighborhood, plus the neighbors.

The van is based off Jackson Street, so most of the city is about 24 minutes away. The Highlands, Fairview and Castro Valley run longer, and each area page says by how much.

Hayward neighborhoods

Inside Hayward

Downtown & B Street

~16 min

B Street from Foothill Boulevard down to the BART station, with Mission Boulevard and the short cross streets: shops and restaurants at the sidewalk, apartments on the floors above them, the city lots, the BART garage, and a second run of calls once the kitchens close.

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Prospect Hill & Upper B

~21 min

The slope above downtown along Upper B Street and the streets off it: houses from the 1900s through the 1930s with deep porches and mortise sets in the door edge, long-owned homes, back cottages and divided upstairs units, narrow streets and short driveways on a grade.

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Jackson Triangle

~18 min

The blocks between Jackson Street and Mission Boulevard: duplexes and small houses on quiet streets, families who have been here for decades beside units that turn over on a lease, back cottages, driveways shared by two front doors, and the neighborhood the van waits in between calls.

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Burbank & the Cannery

~18 min

The flat grid west of Mission around the old cannery: rows of 1950s tract houses with the garage facing the street, original builder hardware on a good many of them, the cannery blocks rebuilt as townhomes and apartments, alleys behind some streets and long straight runs that the van covers in eighteen minutes.

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Mt. Eden

~26 min

The south-west quarter of the city between Hesperian Boulevard and the bay: ranch houses on wide flat streets, older houses on the lanes that were here before the tracts, the shops and yards along Industrial Boulevard, and a run of twenty-six minutes from Jackson Street that is longer when Winton is backed up.

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Tennyson & Southgate

~26 min

Tennyson Road and the blocks around Southgate and South Hayward BART: two- and three-story apartment blocks, fourplexes on the side streets, courtyards with a gate and a buzzer panel, carports at the back, unit numbers that do not follow the street, and the largest share of renters in the city.

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Hayward Highlands & Fairway Park

~31 min

The streets climbing above Cal State East Bay and the blocks of Fairway Park below them: larger houses on cut lots, side gates onto steep drives, detached garages and workshops behind the house, decks and lower doors on the downhill side, and the longest run on the map.

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Eden Shores & the shoreline

~28 min

The west edge of the city past I-880: townhome rows near the marsh and the Eden Greenway, warehouses and light industry on the wide streets, the businesses around Hayward Executive Airport, gated yards, roll-up doors and long fences, twenty-eight minutes out Winton Avenue across I-880.

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Beside the city

The cities beside it

San Lorenzo

~24 min

The unincorporated grid between Hesperian Boulevard and the freeway: rows of small houses put up in the 1940s for shipyard workers, the Village and the shops around it, straight streets on a flat grid, garages converted into rooms, and a twenty-four-minute run north on Hesperian.

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Cherryland & Ashland

~21 min

The unincorporated strip along Mission Boulevard between the city and San Leandro: older houses on deep narrow lots, small apartment buildings and fourplexes, back units and converted garages, shops and taquerias on the boulevard, and a twenty-one-minute run up Mission.

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Fairview

~28 min

The unincorporated hills between D Street, Fairview Avenue and the ridge above Garin Regional Park: larger lots on curving roads, driveways that climb away from the pavement, detached garages, workshops and barns behind the houses, newer courts around Five Canyons, and a twenty-eight-minute run east from Jackson Street.

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San Leandro

~22 min

The city over the north line, reached up Hesperian Boulevard or on the Nimitz: houses from the twenties through the forties on wide avenues, arched Spanish-revival front doors with the lock in the edge, apartment blocks strung along the main avenue, a downtown of shops, and a belt of warehouses and yards west of the railroad. Twenty-two minutes from Jackson Street.

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Castro Valley

~31 min

Castro Valley, up Foothill Boulevard past I-238, is about thirty-one minutes from Jackson Street at the same figures charged in Hayward.

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Union City

~28 min

Union City, south down Mission Boulevard or I-880, is about twenty-eight minutes from Jackson Street, and the figures are the ones charged in Hayward.

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Open 24 hours, 7 days

The van is already in town, and the number comes before it moves

Hayward, San Lorenzo, Cherryland and Ashland, San Leandro, Castro Valley and Union City, 24/7, holidays included. Describe the door, hear one number with the $89 visit inside it, and the lock gets opened without damage wherever it can be. The receipt says what the call said. It runs the same way whether the lease is in your name or the deed is.