Best Neighborhoods in Alhambra, CA

Alhambra Hills sits at the west end of Alhambra, where Valley Boulevard and Fremont Avenue carry traffic toward Los Angeles, and within a few blocks you can go from Hawaiian breakfast to Guizhou cooking to a serious omakase counter. ... See Full Page

Midwick carries the name of the old Midwick Country Club, whose land became this stretch of southern Alhambra when the neighborhood was built out in the 1940s. Today it pairs quiet residential streets with a Valley Boulevard frontage that holds some of the city's longest-running food, including the original pastrami counter that started a Southern California chain. ... See Full Page

Airport Tract takes its name from the Alhambra Airport, which operated on this ground in southeastern Alhambra from 1928 until 1946 before developers bought the land and filled it with houses. ... See Full Page

Emery Park opened as a subdivision on the western edge of Alhambra in 1922, on land that had been part of Alfred Dolge's old manufacturing town, and nearly a century later its 1920s houses still stand almost entirely intact. For anyone who likes period architecture, few parts of the San Gabriel Valley hold together this well. ... See Full Page

Lindaraxa Park is a 1920s neighborhood in northern Alhambra, and its streets move from Spanish and Mission Revival houses to English cottages and Storybook homes, sometimes on the same block. It also has more parkland close at hand than most of the city. ... See Full Page

Marguerita-Bushnell covers the northwest corner of Alhambra, and its streets hold some of the city's best-kept Arts and Crafts houses, including a few Swiss Chalet designs that surprise first-time visitors. The area joins two old subdivisions, La Marguerita-Souders and Wuest-Bushnell. The first honors Marguerita Graffen, whose father owned the original tract. ... See Full Page

Ramona Park is one of southern Alhambra's oldest residential tracts, established in the early 1900s, and many of its Arts and Crafts houses were designed by the architect brothers John and Daniel Althouse. Its northern edge runs along West Valley Boulevard, which puts some of the San Gabriel Valley's most talked-about regional Chinese cooking within a short walk. ... See Full Page

Mayfair is often called the most intact of Alhambra's original neighborhoods, a 1930s tract in the southern part of the city where the period houses have largely survived without teardowns. Its Tudor Revival homes give it a look distinct from the Craftsman streets of nearby Ramona Park. ... See Full Page

Bean Tract occupies the northeastern tip of Alhambra on land that once belonged to orchardist Jacob Bean, and the houses that replaced his trees in the 1930s and 1940s give it a tidy, low-key feel. It is one of the city's smaller neighborhoods, and it sits just east of the 1920s streets of Lindaraxa Park. ... See Full Page

Dolgeville recalls the manufacturing town Alfred Dolge founded on Alhambra's west side before the area joined the city in 1908, and today it is the stretch of West Main Street and Commonwealth Avenue where a lot of the city's everyday shopping gets done. ... See Full Page

Downtown Alhambra grew up around Main Street and Garfield Avenue, a crossroads that has been the city's commercial center since the 1890s, and today it packs more restaurants into a few walkable blocks than almost anywhere else in the San Gabriel Valley. Dim sum, Malaysian noodles, craft beer and Vietnamese soup all share the same sidewalks. ... See Full Page