East Palo Alto, California

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The Ohlone tribe of Native Americans inhabited this area at least by 1500 to 1000 BC. One tumulus was discovered in 1951 during development of the University Village subdivision near today's Costaño School. After a year-long excavation of 60 graves and 3,000 artifacts, researchers concluded Native Americans had utilized the area as a cemetery and camp, rather than as a permanent settlement. In later years another mound was found near Willow Road and the railroad right-of-way.{{cite web |first=Rhonda |last=Rigenhagen |url=http://www.romic.com/epahistory/frame.htm |title=History of East Palo Alto |publisher=Romic Environmental Technologies Corp.|orig-year=1993 |date=1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080630013952/http://www.romic.com/epahistory/frame.htm |archive-date=June 30, 2008 }}

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From the 1850s through the 1940s, the area which was to become East Palo Alto went through many changes. In 1849, Isaiah Churchill Woods (1825–1880) attempted to make the area around what is now Cooley Landing in the northeast of the current city a major shipping town and named the area Ravenswood. In 1868, after Woods' investments failed he sold the wharf to Lester Phillip Cooley (1837–1882), who leased the land to the brick factory Hunter and Schakleford.{{Cite web|last1=Baxter|first1=R. Scott|last2=Allen|first2=Rebecca|last3=Hylkema|first3=Mark G.|date=August 2007|title=Cooley Landing Cultural Resource Inventory and Assessment|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1301329696.pdf|url-status=live|website=Palo Alto Online|publisher=Past Forward, Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422173957/https://www.paloaltoonline.com/media/reports/1301329696.pdf |archive-date=April 22, 2021 }} When the brick factory left the landing in 1884, the land around the landing was reverted to a ranch.

With the outbreak of World War I, the north side of East Palo Alto became a military training ground, of which only the Veterans Administration Hospital in Menlo Park still exists (now as part of the VA Sierra Pacific Network). In the 1940s, East Palo Alto was a farming community with many Japanese residents. During the war, the Japanese were forced out, many to relocation centers, and did not return after the war.

In the 1950s the farms were built over with cheap housing and many African-American families moved in, the result of redlining housing policies.{{Cite web|title=Equity Ripples: East Palo Alto Continues to Struggle Amidst Neighboring Tech Boom|url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/east-palo-struggle-amidst-neighboring-tech-boom/1960199/|access-date=April 24, 2021|website=NBC Bay Area|date=September 10, 2019 |language=en-US}} In particular, in 1954 the then-president of the California Real Estate Association, Floyd Lowe, implemented a strategy that turned a neighborhood on the East side of Palo Alto from predominantly white to predominantly black in a very short amount of time.{{Cite web|last=Cutler|first=Kim-Mai|date=January 10, 2015|title=East Of Palo Alto's Eden: Race And The Formation Of Silicon Valley|url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/|access-date=April 24, 2021|website=TechCrunch|language=en-US}} He did this by "blockbusting," which is a strategy that was employed all over the country to similar results.{{cite web|last1=Russo|first1=Charles|date=June 28, 2020|title=Un-forgetting the segregationist history of Palo Alto (and Daly City, and San Francisco, and…)|url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/06/28/un-forgetting-the-segregationist-history-of-palo-alto-and-daly-city-and-san-francisco-and|url-status=live|website=PaloAltoOnline.com|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630014133/https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/06/28/un-forgetting-the-segregationist-history-of-palo-alto-and-daly-city-and-san-francisco-and |archive-date=June 30, 2020 }} Blockbusting involves instilling panic in white neighborhoods by warning of a "Negro invasion" when a black family considers purchasing a house in an area, in order to produce white flight and an ensuing drop in property values, which can then be purchased at a heavy discount and sold or rented to African Americans for a profit. In 1954, Lowe alerted the neighborhood that a "Negro invasion" was imminent, and as intended, white flight ensued. Lowe profited due to the low prices at which the white families fleeing were willing to sell their homes, and within a few years, the demographics of the area had flipped. As white-owned businesses fled the area, it became poorer and overcrowded – a legacy that has persisted. This segregationist act was never questioned by the government, and it led to many of the demographic and socioeconomic differences that exist between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto today.

These differences in demographics and wealth perversely accelerated with the introduction of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, which banned redlining.{{cite web |last1=Cutler |first1=Kim-Mai |title=East Of Palo Alto's Eden: Race And The Formation Of Silicon Valley |url=https://techcrunch.com/2015/01/10/east-of-palo-altos-eden/ |website=TechCrunch |access-date=April 23, 2021 |date=January 10, 2015}} Home prices doubled by 1979, and many of the more educated and upwardly mobile African Americans took advantage of their newfound freedom to move into wealthier communities with more amenities, leaving the remaining community even poorer and with less access to home ownership than had been the case before the Act.

During the civil rights movement of the 1960s there was a renewed interest in African history, one expression of which was a fad for Swahili. In 1968 the area was almost renamed Nairobi, after the center of the Swahili-speaking area, to reflect the population's African roots. Critics of the change pointed out that Nairobi was the capital of Kenya, in East Africa, and had little to do with the cultural roots of most black Americans. In the end, the change was not made.File:East Palo Alto Muni Blg.jpg

Historically East Palo Alto had relatively little shopping and business compared to surrounding areas, and most of it constituted an unincorporated "island" (until 1983) within San Mateo County, depending on county government for services and on the San Mateo County Sheriff for police protection and ineligible for many revenue benefits requiring city status.

After several years of pro-incorporation campaigning by local community groups, a 1982 ballot measure that was stopped by a lawsuit, and a subsequent election the next year, East Palo Alto became a city on July 1, 1983.{{cite news|last1=Grieve|first1=Tim|title=Incorporation starts for East Palo Alto|url=https://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19830624-01.2.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|access-date=June 2, 2017|work=The Stanford Daily|date=June 24, 1983}} The final tally for incorporation was 1,777 for and 1,764 against, a margin of 13 votes and a majority of 50.2%. The main proponents of incorporation included Barbara A. Mouton, East Palo Alto's Senior Citizen Center president Ruth I. Myers, and the East Palo Alto Citizen’s Committee on Incorporation (EPACCI).Rachel Gordon, “Barbara Mouton – First May of East Palo Alto, Whose “Heart and Soul”

was Serving Community,” SFGate, March 19, 2007. The main opposition to incorporation was spearheaded by a group called Citizens Coalition Against Incorporation Now (CCAIN),Jeff Biddulph, “Court Approves EPA’s Cityhood Election,” Stanford Daily, May 23, 1984. along with three members of the pre-existing and powerless Municipal Council — Gertrude Wilks, Henry Anthony and Pat Johnson.Jeff Biddulph, “McCloskey Urges East PA Vote Delay,” Stanford Daily, January 28, 1983a

Barbara A. Mouton was East Palo Alto's first Mayor, with Omowale Satterwhite, Ruben Abrica, and James Blakey as initial council — all of whom were involved in efforts to incorporate the city. Tim Grieve, “Incorporation Starts for East Palo Alto,” Stanford Daily, June 24, 1983.

Because of subsequent legal challenges to the last ballot measure, it was not until 1987 that the city was officially recognized as such. The legal challenges were led by former U.S. Congress member Pete McCloskey, who represented one of the real-estate brokers whose original blockbusting campaign had turned EPA into a mostly black town.{{Cite web |title=McCloskey Hired to Fight East Palo Alto Cityhood - Peninsula Times Tribune - EPA Community Archive |url=https://catalog.epacommunityarchive.org/document/9z902z84b |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=catalog.epacommunityarchive.org}} The lawsuit alleged that voter fraud through absentee ballots contributed to the success of the vote for incorporation; However, the California Supreme Court unanimously denied this claim on August 22 1986, and upheld the incorporation of the city.{{Cite web |title=The EPA Progress, Vol. 4 No. 5 - EPA Community Archive |url=https://catalog.epacommunityarchive.org/newspaper/7w62f821k |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=catalog.epacommunityarchive.org}}

In the 1980s, large numbers of Hispanics moved into East Palo Alto and by 1990, the city had lost its Black majority population which declined from 60 percent in 1980 to 41.5 percent in 1990 while the Hispanic population increased from 14 percent to 36 percent.{{Cite news|first= Michael |last= McCabe |authorlink= |title= TOWN'S ETHNIC MAKEUP SHIFTS / Historically Black East Palo Alto Moving Toward Latino Majority |newspaper=San Francisco Gate|date= |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/TOWN-S-ETHNIC-MAKEUP-SHIFTS-Historically-Black-2982533.php |via=}}

Significant gentrification occurred in East Palo Alto from around the founding of Facebook, with the construction of a large shopping center named Ravenswood 101 and several upscale housing communities intended for high-earning Silicon Valley workers.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}} This development faced opposition from some residents, who charged that it priced locals out of one of the region's only affordable communities while providing only low-paying retail jobs and consuming disproportionate land area (2.2 square miles). Supporters pointed to an increased tax base.

In 2008, after twenty years without a supermarket, East Palo Alto individuals and organizations established the East Palo Alto Community Farmers' Market.[https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=8272 Palo Alto Online Palo Alto Weekly: An oasis in a food desert (April 16, 2008)]. Paloaltoonline.com. Retrieved on July 21, 2013. In November 2009, the Mi Pueblo Food Center grocery store opened in the Ravenswood 101 shopping center in the location of the former Circuit City store. Mi Pueblo was the city's first full-service supermarket in 23 years.{{cite news |last=Himmel |first=Sheila |title=Filling Shopping Carts and a Community Need |date=January 14, 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times |url =https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/dining/15sfdine.html?_r=0Filling}}

Starting in 2006, a large real estate investor, Page Mill Properties, purchased almost the entire west side of East Palo Alto and contested most of the city's rent control laws in what some claimed was a 'predatory equity scheme'."[https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=10449 EPA Calls Page Mill Properties 'predatory']", Palo Alto Online News, December 17, 2008. Retrieved August 16, 2011. Page Mill left East Palo Alto in the fall of 2009 after defaulting on a $240-million bank loan."[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB126039480378184249 Firm Takes Heat over East Palo Alto Crime]", The Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2009. Retrieved August 16, 2011.

In 1992, the city had the country's highest per-capita murder rate, with 42 murders for 25,000 residents.{{Cite web |last=Mejia |first=Brittny |date=January 8, 2024 |title=A California city's transformation from 'murder capital' of the U.S. to zero homicides |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-08/a-california-citys-transformation-from-murder-capital-of-u-s-to-zero-homicides |access-date=January 9, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} This led to East Palo Alto being dubbed the "Murder Capital" of the United States during this time in the 1990s.{{Cite web |last=Fonseca |first=Ryan |last2= |last3= |last4= |date=2024-01-10 |title=How East Palo Alto went from U.S. ‘murder capital’ to murder-free |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2024-01-10/how-east-palo-alto-went-from-u-s-murder-capital-to-murder-free-essential-california#:~:text=From%20U.S.%20'murder%20capital'%20to%20zero%20homicides,had%20a%20population%20of%2024,000. |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} In 2023, the city had no murders, the first time in its history.{{Cite web |last=Cull • • |first=Ian |date=January 3, 2024 |title=Once the murder capital of the US, East Palo Alto sees zero homicides in 2023 |url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/zero-homicides-in-east-palo-alto-2023/3411442/ |access-date=January 4, 2024 |website=NBC Bay Area |language=en-US}}

East Palo Alto is located in San Mateo County.{{Cite web|title=San Mateo County Leaders Push to Prioritize East Palo Alto for COVID-19 Vaccine|url=https://www.kqed.org/news/11862700/san-mateo-county-leaders-push-to-prioritize-east-palo-alto-for-covid-19-vaccine|access-date=April 22, 2021|website=KQED|date=March 2, 2021 |language=en-us}} Despite its name, it lies almost entirely north, and not east of Palo Alto. It is bordered on the west by Menlo Park, to the south by Palo Alto, and to the east by the San Francisco Bay. The San Francisquito Creek defines its southern edge. To the north are Ravenswood Point and the western end of the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of {{convert|2.6|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|2.5|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqmi|km2}} of it (4.11%) is water.

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The 2010 United States Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=06:0620956|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140715024551/http://www.census.gov/2010census/popmap/ipmtext.php?fl=06:0620956|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 15, 2014|title=2010 Census Interactive Population Search: CA - East Palo Alto city|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=July 12, 2014}} reported that East Palo Alto had a population of 28,155. The population density was {{convert|10,777.1|pd/sqmi}}. The racial makeup of East Palo Alto was 1,754 (6.2%) White, 4,704 (16.7%) African American, 120 (0.4%) Native American, 1,057 (3.8%) Asian, 2,118 (7.5%) Pacific Islander, 10,694 (38.0%) from other races, and 1,358 (4.8%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 18,147 persons (64.5%). Among the Hispanic population, 15,319 (54.4%) are Mexican, 69 (0.2%) are Puerto Rican, 23 (0.1%) are Cuban, and 2,736 (9.7%) are other Hispanic or Latino.

The Census reported that 28,001 people (99.5% of the population) lived in households, 150 (0.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 4 (0%) were institutionalized.

There were 6,940 households, out of which 3,767 (54.3%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 3,144 (45.3%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,510 (21.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 625 (9.0%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 529 (7.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 59 (0.9%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 1,196 households (17.2%) were made up of individuals, and 316 (4.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.03. There were 5,279 families (76.1% of all households); the average family size was 4.38.

The population was spread out, with 8,976 people (31.9%) under the age of 18, 3,487 people (12.4%) aged 18 to 24, 8,897 people (31.6%) aged 25 to 44, 5,120 people (18.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,675 people (5.9%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.5 males.

There were 7,819 housing units at an average density of {{cvt|2,992.9|/sqmi}}, of which 2,971 (42.8%) were owner-occupied, and 3,969 (57.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.1%; the rental vacancy rate was 13.3%. 12,628 people (44.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 15,373 people (54.6%) lived in rental housing units.

As of the census{{cite web |url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=January 31, 2008 |title=U.S. Census website }}{{failed verification|date=January 2015}} of 2000, there were 35,791 people, 7,104 households, and 5,793 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|14327.6|PD/sqmi}}. There were 8,046 housing units at an average density of {{cvt|4,444.4|/sqmi}}. 21.3% spoke English, 64.8% Spanish, 9.5% Pacific Island languages, 0.4% Chinese or Mandarin, other Indo-European 1.4%, and other language 1.3%, as their first language from estimate census 2009.

There were 7,104 households, of which 41.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.4% were married couples living together, 19.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.5% were non-families. 22.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 6.24 and the average family size was 7.65.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 47.1% under the age of 18, 19.5% from 18 to 24, 31.2% from 25 to 44, 11.1% from 45 to 64, and 3.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 females, there were 109.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 108.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $44,006, and the median income for a family was $42,342. Males had a median income of $25,631 versus $28,044 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,774. About 22.2% of families and 21.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.1% of those under age 18 and 14.7% of those age 65 or over.

According to the city's 2021 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report,[https://www.cityofepa.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/finance/page/4361/east_palo_alto_acfr_fy2021.pdf City of East Palo Alto, Annual Comprehensive Financial Report For the year ended June 30, 2021. Page 143.] the city's top employers were:

The total city employment for the year ended June 30, 2021, was 14,500, and the total city employment for 2014 was 13,800.

The local area around the Dumbarton Bridge is an important ecological area, hosting many species of birds, fish and mammals. The California clapper rail is known to be present in the western bridge terminus area.

The Baylands Nature Preserve{{cite web | url=http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/gov/depts/csd/parks/preserves/baylands.asp | title=City of Palo Alto, CA - Baylands}} borders the city of East Palo Alto. The long trail along the marshland connects Mountain View, Palo Alto, and East Palo and it is used by bike commuters every day.

In the California State Legislature, East Palo Alto is in {{Representative|casd|13|fmt=sdistrict}}, and in {{Representative|caad|21|fmt=adistrict}}, {{As of|2024|January|lc=y}}.{{Cite web |title=Statewide Database |url=http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150201113744/http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html |archive-date=February 1, 2015 |access-date=December 3, 2014 |publisher=UC Regents}}

In the United States House of Representatives, East Palo Alto is in {{Representative|cacd|15|fmt=district}}, {{As of|2024|January|lc=y}}.{{Cite GovTrack|CA|15|access-date=March 12, 2013}}

The terms of Mayor and Vice Mayor are for one year and expire at the first meeting in December. {{As of|2024|January}}, 29-year-old Antonio Lopez is the mayor.{{Cite web |date=January 6, 2024 |title=Once a 'murder capital,' East Palo Alto celebrates a year without killings |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/05/once-murder-capital-east-palo-alto-celebrates-year-without-killings/ |access-date=January 7, 2024 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US}}

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The Ravenswood City School District has its headquarters in East Palo Alto."[http://www.ravenswood.k12.ca.us/ Welcome to the Ravenswood City School District] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903081541/http://www.ravenswood.k12.ca.us/ |date=2009-09-03 }}." Ravenswood City School District. Retrieved on October 6, 2009.

The schools in the city are Costaño School of the Arts,"[http://costano.ravenswoodschools.org/ Costaño Elementary]." Ravenswood City School District. Retrieved on September 11, 2020. Belle Haven Elementary,"[http://bellehaven.ravenswoodschools.org/ Belle Haven Community School]." Ravenswood City School District. Retrieved on September 11, 2020. Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy,"[http://losrobles.ravenswoodschools.org/ Los Robles-Ronald McNair Academy]." Ravenswood City School District. Retrieved on September 11, 2020. and Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School."[http://ravenswoodms.ravenswoodschools.org/ Ravenswood Middle School]." Ravenswood City School District. Retrieved on September 11, 2020.

The Sequoia Union High School District operates the zoned high schools in the area. Between 1958 and 1976 East Palo Alto had its own high school, Ravenswood High School. After the school was closed because of low enrollment, the building was demolished in 1995 to make room for the Gateway 101 Shopping Center.{{cite news |first=Don |last=Kazak |url=http://sequoiaalumni.net/schools/ravenswood/rwhs_story.html |title=East Palo Alto marks start of a new era |newspaper=Palo Alto Weekly |via=Sequoia District Alumni |date=June 16, 1995 }} Following the closure of Ravenswood High School, East Palo Alto's high school students were bused out of the city to other schools in the region, primarily Carlmont High School in Belmont. Some have called for re-opening Ravenswood High School in a new location in East Palo Alto."http://ravenswood.sequoiaalumni.net/" Ravenswood High School"[http://www.sequoiadistrict.org/20441082420253347/site/default.asp Boundary Search] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100506174955/http://www.sequoiadistrict.org/20441082420253347/site/default.asp |date=2010-05-06 }}." Sequoia Union High School District. Retrieved on October 6, 2009.

In 2014, the Sequoia Union High School District discontinued the practice of busing. Today, East Palo Alto residents are zoned to Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton.{{Cite web |url=http://www.seq.org/About-Us/Departments/Administrative-Services/Boundary-Search/index.html |title=Sequoia Union High School District - Boundary Search |access-date=August 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160901014641/http://www.seq.org/About-Us/Departments/Administrative-Services/Boundary-Search/index.html |archive-date=September 1, 2016 |url-status=dead }} Through the district Open Enrollment process, some residents choose to attend Carlmont, Woodside High School in Woodside, or Sequoia High School in Redwood City. Alternatively, East Palo Alto Academy (opened in 2001 as East Palo Alto High School){{cite web|url=http://www.epaahs.org/About/index.html|title=East Palo Alto Academy - About|website=www.epaahs.org}} and East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy (opened 2006){{cite web|url=https://www.epapa.org/|title=EPACS & EPAPA|website=EPACS & EPAPA}} are charter high schools in East Palo Alto. There is also a private high school, Eastside College Preparatory, which opened in 1996.{{cite news |first=Jeanne |last=Aufmuth |url=https://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/2003/2003_09_05.fest5.html |title=The little city that could |website=Palo Alto Online |date=September 5, 2003 }}

Every year, parents of incoming minority children in kindergarten through grade 2 can enter a lottery (if there are more requests than the 135 slots available) to send their children to neighboring school districts under the Tinsley Voluntary Transfer Program.

San Mateo County Libraries operates the East Palo Alto Library, located in the municipal building at 2415 University Avenue."[https://smcl.org/]." San Mateo County Libraries. Retrieved on October 6, 2009.

The Ravenswood Post (1953–1981) was an African-American weekly newspaper serving East Palo Alto.{{Cite book |last1=Danky |first1=James Philip |url=http://archive.org/details/africanamericanne00dank |title=African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: a National Bibliography |last2=Hady |first2=Maureen E. |date=1998 |publisher=Harvard University Press |others=Mark Graham |isbn=978-0-674-00788-8 |location=Cambridge, Mass. |pages=485}}{{Cite book |last=Wheeler |first=Jean French |url=https://www.sourisseauacademy.org/Publications/historicaldirectory.pdf |title=Historical Directory of Santa Clara County Newspapers 1850-1972 |publisher=Sourisseau Academy, San Jose State University |year=1973}} The East Palo Alto Progress (1983—1986) succeeded the Ravenswood Post, serving East Palo Alto immediately after incorporation, running for four volumes.{{Cite web |title=Collection: The east palo alto progress collection - EPA Community Archive |url=https://catalog.epacommunityarchive.org/collection/the-east-palo-alto-progress-collection |access-date=2025-03-11 |website=catalog.epacommunityarchive.org}} Other local news publishings included the newspaper, East Palo Alto Today; former newspaper, The Peninsula Bulletin; and the magazine, El Ravenswood.{{Cite news |last=Farhi |first=Paul |date=July 17, 2017 |title=What happens to local news when there is no local media to cover it? |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/what-happens-to-local-news-when-there-is-no-local-media-to-cover-it/2017/07/17/84e0692c-4649-11e7-98cd-af64b4fe2dfc_story.html |access-date=January 30, 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}

U.S. Route 101 cuts through the southern part of the city, with two on ramps and off ramps in the city (University and Willow). There are frontage roads on either side of the freeway. The Dumbarton Bridge in neighboring Menlo Park connects East Palo Alto to Alameda County, which lies to the east across San Francisco Bay, and carries State Route 84 into East Palo Alto toward U.S. 101.

Public transportation is provided by SamTrans.

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