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Joseph; Bank of Italy Building; San Jose Museum of Art; San Jose City Hall; Santana Row Location of San Jose inside Santa Clara County, California Location of San Jose inside Santa Clara County, California San Jose is positioned in California San Jose - San Jose Body San Jose City Council San Jose (/ s n ho ze /, Spanish for "Saint Joseph"; Spanish pronunciation: [sae xo se]), officially the City of San Jose, is the economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the biggest city in Northern California.
With an estimated 2015 populace of 1,026,908, it is the third most crowded city in California (after Los Angeles and San Diego) and the tenth most crowded in United States. Located in the center of the Santa Clara Valley, on the southern shore of San Francisco Bay, San Jose covers an region of 179.97 square miles (466.109 km2).
San Jose is the governmental center of county of Santa Clara County, the most well-to-do county in California and one of the most well-to-do counties in the United States. San Jose is the biggest city in both the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland Combined Statistical Area, which contain 7.7 million and 8.7 million citizens in the order given. Before the arrival of the Spanish, the region around San Jose was inhabited by the Ohlone citizens .
San Jose was established on November 29, 1777, as the Pueblo of San Jose de Guadalupe, the first civilian town established in Spanish Alta California. When California attained statehood in 1850, San Jose became the state's first capital. Following World War II, San Jose experienced an economic boom, with a rapid populace growth and aggressive annexation of close-by cities and communities carried out in the 1950s and 60s.
Enumeration pointed out that San Jose had officially surpassed San Francisco as the most crowded city in Northern California. By the 1990s, San Jose and the rest of Silicon Valley had turn into the global center for the high tech and internet industries.
San Jose is considered to be a global city, notable for its affluence and high cost of living. San Jose's locale within the booming high tech industry, as a cultural, political, and economic center has earned the town/city the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley".
San Jose is one of the wealthiest primary cities in the United States and the world, and has the third highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zurich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), as stated to the Brookings Institution. With a median home price of $1,085,000, San Jose has the most expensive housing market in the nation and the fifth most expensive housing market in the world, as stated to the 2017 Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. Major global tech companies including Cisco Systems, e - Bay, Adobe Systems, Pay - Pal, Brocade, Samsung, Acer, and Western Digital maintain their command posts in San Jose, in the center of Silicon Valley.
Main articles: History of San Jose, California and Timeline of San Jose, California On orders from Antonio Maria de Bucareli y Ursua, Spanish Viceroy of New Spain, San Jose was established by Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga as Pueblo de San Jose de Guadalupe (in honor of Saint Joseph) on November 29, 1777, to establish a farming community.
In 1797, the pueblo was moved from its initial location, near the present-day intersection of Guadalupe Parkway and Taylor Street, to a locale in what is now Downtown San Jose.
San Jose came under Mexican rule in 1821 after Mexico broke with the Spanish crown.
San Jose in 1875, when the Santa Clara Valley was one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world On March 27, 1850, San Jose became the second incorporated town/city in the state (after Sacramento), with Josiah Belden its first mayor.
San Jose was California's first state capital, and hosted the first and second sessions (1850 1851) of the California Legislature.
In the reconstruction - 1900 through 1910, San Jose served as a center for pioneering invention, innovation, and impact in both lighter-than-air and heavier-than-air flight.
The City of San Jose has established Montgomery Park, a Monument at San Felipe and Yerba Buena Roads, and John J.
During this period, San Jose also became a center of innovation for the mechanization/industrialization of agricultural and food refining equipment. Although not affected as severely as San Francisco, San Jose also suffered momentous damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Over 100 citizens died at the Agnews Asylum (later Agnews State Hospital) after its walls and roof collapsed, and San Jose High School's three-story stone-and-brick building was also destroyed.
In 1940, the Enumeration Bureau reported San Jose's populace as 98% white. As World War II started, the city's economy shifted from agriculture (the Del Monte cannery was the biggest employer) to industrialized manufacturing with the contracting of the Food Machinery Corporation (later known as FMC Corporation) by the United States War Department to build 1,000 Landing Vehicle Tracked. After World War II, FMC (later United Defense, and presently BAE Systems) continued as a defense contractor, with the San Jose facilities designing and manufacturing military platforms such as the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and various subsystems of the M1 Abrams battle tank. IBM established its West Coast command posts in San Jose in 1943 and opened a downtown research and evolution facility in 1952.
Both would prove to be harbingers for the economy of San Jose, as Reynold Johnson and his team would later invent RAMAC, as well as the difficult disk drive, and the technological side of San Jose's economy grew. The Ford Motor Company relocated its factory in Richmond to a new locale in the suburb of Milpitas, called the San Jose Assembly Plant, which was one of the major locations for manufacturing the Ford Mustang.
The Bank of Italy Building, assembled in 1926, is the earliest high-rise building in Downtown San Jose and a landmark of the town/city and Silicon Valley alike.
On April 3, 1979, the San Jose City Council adopted San Jose, with the diacritical mark on the "e", as the spelling of the town/city name on the town/city seal, official stationery, office titles and department names. Also, by town/city council convention, this spelling of San Jose is used when the name is stated in different upper- and lower-case letters, but not when the name is stated only in upper-case letters.
While San Jose is generally spelled both with and without the acute accent over the "e," the city's official guidelines indicate that it should be spelled with the accent most of the time and sets forth narrow exceptions, such as when the spelling is in URLs, when the name appears in all-capital letters, when the name is used on civil media sites where the diacritical mark does not render properly, and where San Jose is part of the proper name of another organization or business, such as San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce, that has chosen not to use the accent-marked name. The city's name without the accent can still be found in its 1965 Charter document, as amended, which formally chartered the municipality as City of San Jose. Similarly, the city's website appears to use a mixture of both; for example, the "City of San Jose" in the text uses the mark but the "City of San Jose" logo image does not. San Jose's position in Silicon Valley triggered further economic and populace growth.
Enumeration pointed out that San Jose surpassed San Francisco as the most crowded city in the Bay Area for the first time. This expansion led to the highest housing-cost increase in the nation, 936% between 1976 and 2001. Efforts to increase density continued into the 1990s when an update of the 1974 urban plan kept the urban expansion boundaries endured and voters rejected a ballot measure to ease evolution restrictions in the foothills.
San Jose is positioned at 37 20 07 N 121 53 31 W.
San Jose lies between the San Andreas Fault, the origin of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the Calaveras Fault.
On April 14, 1984, at 1:15 pm small-town time, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Calaveras Fault near San Jose's Mount Hamilton. The most serious earthquake, in 1906, damaged many buildings in San Jose as described earlier.
Overhead panorama of downtown San Jose The town/city is generally divided into the following areas: Downtown San Jose, Central, West San Jose, North San Jose, East San Jose, and South San Jose.
Looking west over northern San Jose (downtown is at far left) and other parts of Silicon Valley.
Besides those mentioned above, some well-known communities inside San Jose include Japantown, Rose Garden, Sunol-Midtown, Willow Glen, Naglee Park, Burbank, Winchester, Alviso, East Foothills, Alum Rock, Little Portugal, Blossom Valley, Cambrian, Almaden Valley, Silver Creek Valley, Evergreen Valley, Edenvale, Santa Teresa, Seven Trees, Coyote Valley, and Berryessa.
San Jose's urban sprawl was made by the design of "Dutch" Hamann, the City Manager from 1950 to 1969.
In 1963, the State of California imposed Local Agency Formation Commissions statewide, but largely to try to maintain order with San Jose's aggressive growth.
Important landmarks in San Jose include Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, History Park at Kelley Park, Cathedral Basilica of St.
Library, Mexican Heritage Plaza, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, Lick Observatory, Hayes Mansion, SAP Center at San Jose, Hotel De Anza, San Jose Improv, San Jose Municipal Stadium, Spartan Stadium, Japantown San Jose, Winchester Mystery House, Raging Waters, Circle of Palms Plaza, San Jose City Hall, San Jose Flea Market, Oak Hill Memorial Park, and The Tech Museum of Innovation.
A satellite image of the Santa Clara Valley in the South Bay Area; San Jose makes up most of the urbanization in the center of the valley.
The Guadalupe River runs from the Santa Cruz Mountains (which separate the South Bay from the Pacific Coast) flowing north through San Jose, ending in the San Francisco Bay at Alviso.
The lowest point in San Jose is 13 feet (4 m) below sea level at the San Francisco Bay in Alviso; the highest is 2,125 feet (648 m). Because of the adjacency to Lick Observatory up on Mount Hamilton, San Jose has taken a several steps to reduce light pollution, including replacing all street lamps and outside lighting in private developments with low pressure sodium lamps. To recognize the city's accomplishments, the asteroid 6216 San Jose was titled after the city. San Jose lies close to the Pacific Ocean and close to San Francisco Bay (a small portion of its northern border touches the bay).
There are four distinct valleys in the town/city of San Jose: Almaden Valley, situated on the southwest fringe of the city; Evergreen Valley to the southeast, which is hilly all throughout its interior; Santa Clara Valley, which includes the flat, chief urban expanse of the South Bay; and the non-urban Coyote Valley, to the city's extreme southern fringe.
San Jose, like most of the Bay Area, has a subtropical Mediterranean climate (Koppen Csb). San Jose has an average of 301 days of sunlight and an annual mean temperature of 60.5 F (15.8 C).
Like most of the Bay Area, San Jose is made up of dozens of microclimates.
Because of a more prominent precipitation shadow from the Santa Cruz Mountains, Downtown San Jose experiences the lightest rainfall in the city, while South San Jose, only 10 mi (16 km) distant, experiences more rainfall, and somewhat more extreme temperatures.
The monthly daily average temperature ranges from around 50 F (10 C) in December and January to around 70 F (21 C) in July and August. The highest temperature ever recorded in San Jose was 114 F (46 C) on June 14, 1961; the lowest was 19 F ( 7 C) on December 22 23, 1990.
Climate data for San Jose, California (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1893 present) Measurable rain falls in downtown San Jose on an average of 62 days a year. Annual rain has ranged from 6.12 in (155 mm) in 1953 to 32.57 in (827 mm) in 1983.
Snow rarely falls in San Jose; the most recent snow to remain on the ground was on February 5, 1976, when many inhabitants around the town/city saw as much as 3 in (7.6 cm) on car and roof tops.
With a total populace of 1,015,785, San Jose became the 11th U.S.
Map of ethnic distribution in San Jose, 2010 U.S.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Jose had a populace of 945,942.
San Jose and the rest of the Bay Area is home to many Christian congregations, including large Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, Mormons, and Jehovah's Witnesses, alongside centers of Jewish, Hindu, Islamic, Buddhist and Sikh faiths, among various other theological communities.
San Jose has the biggest Vietnamese populace of any town/city in the world outside of Vietnam. The citizens from these countries have settled in the town/city and athwart the Santa Clara Valley primarily amid the last three or four decades.
The large concentration of high-technology engineering, computer, and microprocessor companies around San Jose has led the region to be known as Silicon Valley.
As the biggest city in the valley, San Jose has billed itself "the capital of Silicon Valley." Area schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, San Francisco State University, California State University, East Bay, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University pump thousands of engineering and computer science graduates into the small-town economy every year.
San Jose had 405,000 jobs inside its town/city limits in 2006, and an unemployment rate of 4.6%.
In 2000, San Jose inhabitants had the highest median homehold income of any town/city in the United States with a populace over 300,000, and presently has the highest median income of any U.S.
The cost of living in San Jose and the encircling areas is among the highest in California and the nation, as stated to 2004 data. Housing costs are the major reason for the high cost of living, although the costs in all areas tracked by the ACCRA Cost of Living Index are above the nationwide average.
San Jose lists many companies with 1,000 employees or more, including the command posts of Adobe, Altera, Brocade Communications Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, e - Bay, Lee's Sandwiches, Lumileds, Pay - Pal, Rosendin Electric, Sanmina-SCI, and Xilinx, as well as primary facilities for Becton Dickinson, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Kaiser Permanente, KLA Tencor, Lockheed Martin, Nippon Sheet Glass, Qualcomm, and AF Media Group.
Other large companies based in San Jose include Altera, Atmel, CEVA, Cypress Semiconductor, Echelon, Extreme Networks, Harmonic, Integrated Device Technology, Maxim Integrated, Micrel, Move, Netgear, Novellus Systems, Oclaro, OCZ, Online Trading Academy, Quantum, Sun - Power, Sharks Sports and Entertainment, Supermicro, Tessera Technologies, Ti - Vo, Ultratech, and Veri - Fone.
Sizable government employers include the town/city government, Santa Clara County, and San Jose State University. Acer's United States division has its offices in San Jose. Prior to its closing, Netcom had its command posts in San Jose. San Jose inhabitants produce more U.S.
Patents than any other city. On October 15, 2015, the United States Patent and Trademark Office opened a satellite office in San Jose to serve Silicon Valley and the Western U.S.
Are invested in San Jose and Silicon Valley companies. 4 City of San Jose 5,928 5 San Jose State University 4,480 9 San Jose Unified School District 2,320 Pictured is the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts at evening, a general-purpose venue for a several performing arts organizations in San Jose Because the downtown region is in the flight path to close-by Mineta San Jose International Airport (also evidenced in the above panoramic), there is a height limit for buildings in the downtown area, which is underneath the final approach corridor to the airport.
There has been broad criticism over the past several decades of the city's architecture. Citizens have complained that San Jose is lacking in beautifulally pleasing architectural styles.
Municipal building projects have experimented more with architectural styles than have most private enterprises. The Children's Discovery Museum, Tech Museum of Innovation, and the San Jose Repertory Theater building have experimented with bold colors and unusual exteriors.
The statue of Thomas Fallon also met strong resistance from those who felt that citizens like him were largely responsible for the decimation of early native populations and Chicano/Latino activists protested he captured San Jose by violent force in the Mexican-American war (1846) as well "repressed" historic documents of Fallon ordered the expulsion of most of the city's Californio (early Spanish or Mexican) residents.
In 2001, the town/city sponsored Shark - Byte, an exhibit of decorated sharks, based on the mascot of the hockey team, the San Jose Sharks, and modeled after Chicago's display of decorated cows. Large models of sharks were decorated in a range of clever, colorful, or creative ways by small-town artists and were then displayed for months at dozens of locations around the city.
In 2006, Adobe Systems commissioned an art installation titled San Jose Semaphore by Ben Rubin, which is positioned at the top of its command posts building.
The town/city is home to many performing arts companies, including Opera San Jose, Symphony Silicon Valley, Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley, sj - DANCEco, Children's Musical Theater of San Jose (45 years old in 2013), the San Jose Youth Symphony, the San Jose Repertory Theatre, City Lights Theatre Company, The Tabard Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, and the now-defunct American Musical Theatre of San Jose which was replaced by Broadway San Jose in partnership with Team San Jose.
San Jose also is home to the San Jose Museum of Art, one of the nation's premiere Modern Art exhibitions.
The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is an annual event, which is hosted in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Downtown San Jose.
Approximately 30 to 40 films are screened in San Jose each year at the Camera 12 Downtown Cinemas.
San Jose Sharks Hockey 1991 National Hockey League SAP Center at San Jose (17,562) San Jose Barracuda Hockey 2015 American Hockey League (AAA) SAP Center at San Jose (17,562) San Jose Giants Baseball 1988 California League (High-A) San Jose Municipal Stadium (4,200) San Jose State Spartans NCAA Football 1893 Mountain West Conference CEFCU Stadium San Jose is home to the San Jose Sharks of the NHL, the San Jose Barracuda of the AHL, and the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer.
The Sharks and the Barracuda play in the SAP Center at San Jose.
San Jose was a beginning member of both the California League and Pacific Coast League in minor league baseball.
San Jose presently fields the San Jose Giants, a High-A partner of the San Francisco Giants.
San Jose has "aggressively wooed" the Oakland Athletics to relocate to San Jose from close-by Oakland, and the Athletics in turn have said that San Jose is their "best option," but the San Francisco Giants have thus far exercised a veto against this proposal. In 2013, the town/city of San Jose sued Major League Baseball for not allowing the Athletics to relocate to San Jose. On October 5, 2015 the United States Supreme Court rejected San Jose's bid on the Athletics. From 2005 to 2007, the San Jose Grand Prix, an annual street circuit race in the Champ Car World Series, was held in the downtown area.
In 2004, the San Jose Sports Authority hosted the U.S.
Olympic team trials for judo, taekwondo, trampolining and rhythmic gymnastics at the San Jose State Event Center.
In 2008, around 90 percent of the members of the United States Olympic team were processed at San Jose State University before to traveling to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The 2009 Junior Olympics for trampoline were also held here.
In August 2004, the San Jose Seahawk Rugby Football Club hosted the USA All-Star Rugby Sevens Championships at Watson Bowl, east of Downtown.
San Jose State hosted the 2011 American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) nationwide tournament. The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is also incessantly held in San Jose.
Replica of the San Jose Light Tower History Park at Kelley Park San Jose possesses about 15,950 acres (6,455 ha) of parkland in its town/city limits, including a part of the expansive Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
The city's earliest park is Alum Rock Park, established in 1872. In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land, a nationwide land conservation organization, reported that San Jose was tied with Albuquerque and Omaha for having the 11th best park fitness among the 50 most crowded U.S.
Almaden Quicksilver County Park, 4,147 acres (16.78 km2) of former mercury mines in South San Jose (operated and maintained by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department).
Alum Rock Park, 718 acres (2.91 km2) in East San Jose, the earliest municipal park in California and one of the biggest municipal parks in the United States.
Emma Prusch Farm Park, 43.5 acres (17.6 hectares) in East San Jose.
Martial Cottle Park, a former agricultural farm, in South San Jose.
San Jose Flea Market San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, 5 1 2 acres (22,000 m2) park in the Rose Garden neighborhood, featuring over 4,000 rose bushes Winchester Mystery House in San Jose.
Aerial view of San Jose.
Front of the San Jose Museum of Art, the remaining facade of San Jose's first postal service The Market in Downtown San Jose as seen with uplit palms Early written documents record the small-town presence of migrating salmon in the Rio Guadalupe dating as far back as the 18th century. Both steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and King salmon are extant in the Guadalupe River, making San Jose the southernmost primary U.
San Jose's trail network of 60 miles (100 km) of recreational and active transit trails throughout the city. The primary trails in the network include: Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose San Jose Museum of Art San Jose East Carnegie Branch Library is notable as it is the last Carnegie library still operating in San Jose, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
San Jose Steam Railroad Museum, proposed, artifacts and rolling stock are kept at the fairgrounds and Kelley Park San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, the first exhibition in America dedicated solely to quilts and textiles as an art form.
San Jose Improv, San Jose's earliest theater, home for the San Jose Improv Comedy Club.
Sikh Gurdwara - San Jose, the biggest Gurdwara (a Sikh temple) in the United States See also: San Jose City Council; List of mayors of San Jose, California; and List of town/city supervisors of San Jose, California San Jose City Hall San Jose is a charter town/city under California law, giving it the power to enact small-town ordinances that may conflict with state law, inside the limits provided by the charter. The town/city has a council-manager government with a town/city manager impel by the mayor and propel by the town/city council.
The San Jose City Council is made up of ten council members propel by district, and a mayor propel by the entire city.
Like all metros/cities and counties in the state, San Jose has representation in the state legislature.
Like all California metros/cities except San Francisco, both the levels and the boundaries of what the town/city government controls are determined by the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO). The goal of a LAFCO is to try to avoid uncontrolled urban sprawl.
The Santa Clara County LAFCO has set boundaries of San Jose's "Sphere of Influence" (indicated by the blue line in the map near the top of the page) as a superset of the actual town/city limits (the yellow region in the map), plus parts of the encircling unincorporated county land, where San Jose can, for example, prevent evolution of fringe areas to concentrate town/city growth closer to the city's core.
San Jose is the governmental center of county of Santa Clara County. Accordingly, many county government facilities are positioned in the city, including the office of the County Executive, the Board of Supervisors, the District Attorney's Office, eight courthouses of the Superior Court, the Sheriff's Office, and the County Clerk. In the California State Senate, San Jose is split between the 10th, 15th, and 17th districts, represented by Democrat Bob Wieckowski, Democrat Jim Beall, and Democrat Bill Monning in the order given.
In the California State Assembly, San Jose is split between the 25th, 27th, 28th, and 29th districts, represented by Democrat Kansen Chu, Democrat Ash Kalra, Democrat Evan Low, and Democrat Mark Stone, in the order given.
Federally, San Jose is split between California's 17th, 18th, and 19th congressional districts, represented by Democrat Ro Khanna, Democrat Anna Eshoo, and Democrat Zoe Lofgren, in the order given. Several state and federal agencies maintain offices in San Jose.
The town/city is the locale of the Sixth District of the California Courts of Appeal. It is also home to one of three courthouses of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the other two being in Oakland and San Francisco. Crime in San Jose had been lower than in other large American metros/cities until 2013, when crime rates in San Jose climbed above California and U.S.
Boccardo Gate at San Jose State University San Jose is home to a several colleges and universities.
The biggest is San Jose State University, which was established by the California council in 1862 as the California State Normal School, and is the beginning campus of the California State University (CSU) system.
Located in downtown San Jose since 1870, the college enrolls approximately 30,000 students in over 130 different bachelor's and master's degree programs.
The school appreciates a good academic reputation, especially in the fields of engineering, business, art and design, and journalism, and persistently rates among the top enhance universities in the region of the United States. San Jose State is one of only three Bay Area schools that fields a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Division I college football team; Stanford University and U.C.
Lincoln Law School of San Jose and University of Silicon Valley Law School offer law degrees, catering to working professionals.
National University maintains a ground in San Jose.
The San Jose ground of Golden Gate University offers company bachelor and MBA degrees.
San Jose's improve colleges, San Jose City College, West Valley College, Mission College and Evergreen Valley College, offer associate degrees, general education units to transfer to CSU and UC schools, and adult and closing education programs.
The West ground of Palmer College of Chiropractic is also positioned in San Jose.
West - Med College is headquartered in San Jose and offers paramedic training, emergency medical technician training, and licensed vocational nursing programs.
Western Seminary has one of its four campuses in San Jose, which opened on the ground of Calvary Church of Los Gatos in 1985.
The San Jose ground offers four master's degrees, and a range of other graduate-level programs. Abraham Lincoln High School near Downtown San Jose.
Up until the opening of Lincoln High School in 1943, San Jose students only attended San Jose High School.
In addition to the chief San Jose Unified School District (SJUSD), other close-by unified school districts of close-by cities are Milpitas Unified School District, Morgan Hill Unified School District, and Santa Clara Unified School District.
When San Jose began expanding, non-urban school districts became one of the primary opponents, as their territory and tax base was taken by the city.
Private schools in San Jose are primarily run by theological groups.
The Catholic Diocese of San Jose has the second biggest student populace in the Santa Clara County, behind only SJUSD; the diocese and its churches operate a several schools in the city, including six high schools: Archbishop Mitty High School, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Notre Dame High School, Saint Francis High School, St.
Lawrence High School, and Presentation High School. Other private high schools not run by the Diocese include two Baptist high schools, Liberty Baptist School and White Road Baptist Academy, one Non-Denominational Protestant high school, Valley Christian High School (San Jose, California), one University-preparatory school, Cambrian Academy, and a nonsectarian K-12 Harker School west of the town/city in the Blackford neighborhood.
The San Jose Public Library fitness is unique in that the Dr.
Library combines the collections of the city's fitness with the San Jose State University chief library.
The town/city has 23 neighborhood chapters including the Biblioteca Latinoamericana which specializes in Spanish language works. The East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library, a Carnegie library opened in 1908, is the last Carnegie library in Santa Clara County still operating as a enhance library and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The San Jose fitness (along with the University system) were jointly titled as "Library of the Year" by the Library Journal in 2004. Main article: Media in San Jose, California San Jose is served by Greater Bay Area media.
Print media outlets in San Jose include the San Jose Mercury News, the weekly Metro Silicon Valley, El Observador and the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal.
The Bay Area's NBC O&O, KNTV 11, is based in San Jose.
In April 1909, Charles David Herrold, an electronics instructor in San Jose, constructed a airways broadcast to broadcast the human voice.
The station, "San Jose Calling" (call letters FN, later FQW), was the world's first airways broadcast with scheduled programming targeted at a general audience.
San Jose Diridon Station, the major stop for commuter rail and Amtrak lines in San Jose.
The interior of Terminal B at Mineta San Jose International Airport.
See also: Bay Area Rapid Transit expansion and San Jose Diridon station Rail service to and from San Jose is provided by Amtrak (the Sacramento San-Jose Capitol Corridor and the Seattle Los-Angeles Coast Starlight), Caltrain (commuter rail service between San Francisco and Gilroy), ACE (commuter rail service to Pleasanton and Stockton), and a small-town light-rail fitness connecting downtown to Mountain View, Milpitas, Campbell, and Almaden Valley, directed by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA).
Long-term plans call for BART to be period to Santa Clara through Milpitas and San Jose from the current terminal in Fremont.
Phase 1 will extend service to a temporary terminal in north-eastern San Jose in late 2017 at Berryessa station.
In addition, San Jose will be a primary stop on the future California High Speed Rail route between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Diridon Station (formerly Cahill Depot, 65 Cahill Street) is the meeting point of all county-wide commuter rail service in the area.
VTA also operates many bus routes in San Jose and the encircling communities, as well as offering paratransit services to small-town residents.
Additionally, the Highway 17 Express bus line joins central San Jose with Santa Cruz.
San Jose is served by Norman Y.
Mineta San Jose International Airport (IATA: SJC, ICAO: KSJC, FAA LID: SJC), two miles (3 km) northwest of downtown, and by Reid-Hillview Airport of Santa Clara County (ICAO: KRHV, FAA LID: RHV) a general aviation airport positioned in the easterly part of San Jose.
San Jose inhabitants also use San Francisco International Airport (IATA: SFO, ICAO: KSFO, FAA LID: SFO), a primary international core located 35 miles (56 km) to the northwest, and Oakland International Airport (IATA: OAK, ICAO: KOAK, FAA LID: OAK), another primary international airport positioned 35 miles (56 km) to the north.
The San Jose region has a large freeway system, including three Interstate freeways and one U.S.
It is, however, the biggest city in the nation not served by a major Interstate; most of the Interstate Highway Network was prepared by the early 1950s well before San Jose's rapid expansion decades later.
101 runs south to the California Central Coast and Los Angeles, and then runs north up near the easterly shore of the San Francisco Peninsula to San Francisco.
I-280 also heads to San Francisco, but goes along just to the west of the metros/cities of San Francisco Peninsula.
Several state highways also serve San Jose: SR 17, SR 85, SR 87 and SR 237.
Additionally, San Jose is served by a fitness of county-wide expressways, which includes the Almaden Expressway, Capitol Expressway, San Tomas Expressway, and Lawrence Expressway.
Several county-wide transit projects have been undertaken in recent years to deal with congestion on San Jose freeways.
This includes expansion of State Route 87 including more lanes near the downtown San Jose area.
The following day, San Jose City Councilman Joe Colla was photographed standing next to the car, a photo which was circulated athwart many newspapers. It has been suggested this stunt nudged the wheels of progress to find the funds to complete the freeway.
A 2011 study by Walk Score ranked San Jose the nineteenth most walkable of fifty biggest cities in the United States. San Jose Water Works at West Santa Clara St.
Potable water is provided primarily by the private-sector San Jose Water Company, with some by the Great Oaks Water Company, and ten percent by the public-sector San Jose Municipal Water System.
Wastewater treatment happens at the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility (RWF), which treats and cleans the wastewater of more than 1,500,000 citizens that live and work in the 300+ square mile (780 km ) region encompassing San Jose, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Saratoga, and Monte Sereno. About 18% of the treated wastewater is sold for irrigation ("water recycling") in San Jose, Santa Clara, and Milpitas, through small-town water providers San Jose Municipal Water System, City of Milpitas Municipal Services, City of Santa Clara Water & Sewer Utility, and San Jose Water Company.
On March 14, 2013, San Jose implemented a enhance wireless connection in the downtown area. Wireless access points were placed on outside light posts throughout the city. Main article: List of citizens from San Jose, California Michaela Roessner's Vanishing Point, (Tor, New York, 1993, ISBN 0-312-85213-4) a post-apocalyptic novel, is largely set in San Jose.
The 2006 autonomous film Valley of the Heart's Delight, featuring Pete Postlethwaite as a scheming journal publisher, is based on an actual kidnapping, murder, coverup, and mob lynching which took place in San Jose in 1933. is the name of the morning announcement program for Wakefield Middle School which is fictionally set in San Jose.
San Jose has one of the earliest Sister City programs in the nation.
The Office of Economic Development coordinates the San Jose Sister City Program which is part of Sister Cities International.
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1990: San Jose = 782248, San Francisco = 723959 "America's Richest Cities: San Jose Tops List With Highest Median Household Income".
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Silicon Valley Business Journal San Jose Area has World's Third-Highest GDP Per Capita, Brookings Says SF Gate San Jose is the Most Unaffordable City in the US Clyde Arbuckle's History of San Jose.
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