BIXBY KNOLLS, LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA

'Bixby Knolls' is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California.

Contents
Location
Description
Schools
Parks
Historical Places
External links

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.

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 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.

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.

External links



Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association

Rancho Los Cerritos

The Halloween 2006 beating that took place in the Bixby Knolls area of Long Beach

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