Berkeley residents were surprised on Friday to see the furniture some of them normally play chess on at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street was gone for the third time in five weeks.
The City of Berkeley, at the request of the Telegraph Business Improvement District, cleared out the Dwight Triangle on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Dwight Way this morning, and
On Friday morning, the “chess club,” a well-known community space on Telegraph Avenue, was cleared by the block’s property owner, with BPD on standby, following numerous trespassing allegations.