Frank H. Ogawa Plaza is located where San Pablo Avenue converges with Broadway and 14th Street.

An entrance to the 12th Street Oakland City Center BART station is located at the intersection with Broadway.

Latham Square, a small plaza where Telegraph Avenue converges with Broadway, is one block to the northeast.

In 1896, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on a young Jack London giving speeches in what was then called "City Hall park".

Oscar Grant was a young Hayward man who was killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer in 2009.