East Palo Alto, CA

East Palo Alto is a San Mateo County city on the San Francisco Peninsula, squeezed between Menlo Park, Palo Alto, San Francisquito Creek, the Bayshore Freeway, and the Bay. Despite the name, it lies mostly north of Palo Alto, not east of it. The city incorporated in 1983 after a long unincorporated history, and its identity has been shaped by redlining, B...