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Piedmont Avenue the street stretches diagonally from Broadway to Pleasant Valley (51st Street), and the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood is generally considered to reach laterally from Broadway to Oakland Avenue and the border to the [[Piedmont, California|City of Piedmont]], which is a separate, land-locked municipality within Oakland.

Piedmont Avenue's namesake commercial strip boasts numerous locally-owned small business, including shops, bars and restaurants, the famous Fenton's ice cream parlor, an art house/independent movie theater, and more. Piedmont Avenue is a haven for caffeine, with no less than four coffee houses plus a tea shop.

Piedmont Avenue is a haven for caffeine. Gaylord's Cafe Espresso (formerly known as Uncle Gaylord's), [[Peet's_Coffee_and_Tea|Peet's Coffee]] have both been in the neighborhood since the 1980's. [[Starbucks]] arrived more recently, directly across from Gaylord's. L'Amyx Tea Bar serves several varieties of [[tea]] and desserts.

The Piedmont Theater is a small movie theater that typically shows avante garde movies. The seating configurations can be odd and the screens smallish, but the theater is fairly popular.

A local neighborhood association, the Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League (PANIL), is very active in protecting the neighborhood's charm and livability.