Berchem is a neighbourhood in Grand Theft Auto IV located in central Alderney, bounded by Alderney City to the north and Acter to the south.
Description[]
Berchem is an affluent neighbourhood characterised by its quaint architecture. It is home to many restaurants such Nonna Pina's, an Italian restaurant located on Bear Street directly across another unnamed restaurant; Wigwam Burger and Chinese restaurant X-may on Vitullo Avenue; and Pizza This... on Farnsworth Road. Vitullo Avenue, the neighbourhood's thoroughfare, is home to upmarket blocks of flats such as The Skyline Condominiums.
Influences[]
Berchem contains elements of North Bergen and Hoboken, New Jersey. Berchem's name could have been derived from the Berchem district of Antwerp, Belgium, which neighbors the Hoboken district of Antwerp, which New Jersey's Hoboken was once believed to have its name come from.
Prominent Appearances in Missions[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
- To Live and Die in Alderney
- Random Characters - Eddie Low
- Most Wanted - Rodney McEniry, Mervin Eskuchen
Collectibles[]
Weapon Pickups[]
- Baseball Bat - lying against a wall in a courtyard bounded by Aspdin Drive, Vitullo Avenue and Cockerell Avenue.
- AK-47 - lying against a wall in a courtyard bounded by Babbage Drive, Fleming Street, Mueri Street and Farnsworth Road.
- Pistol - lying atop an "anti-freeze building" in an alleyway stretching from Farnsworth Road to Edison Avenue.
Flying Rats[]
Five Flying Rats - perched:
- Atop a pile of gravel at the northwest bend of Aspdin Drive.
- On the sunken courtyard of a rowhouse located on Aspdin Drive, near the Plumbers Skyway intersection.
- On a parapet on the first floor of The Skyline Condominiums on Vitullo Avenue.
- Atop a prebuilt shelter in front of Cluckin' Bell on Babbage Drive.
- In-between bushes to the north of the Globe Oil warehouse on Babbage Drive.
Vehicles[]
- Stevie's Car Thefts - a Sultan parked in the driveway of a green house on Aspdin Drive, near the Plumbers Skyway intersection.
Roads and Streets[]
Streets[]
- Aspdin Drive
- Babbage Drive
- Bear Street
- Cockerell Avenue
- Drebbel
- Farnsworth Road
- Fleming Street
- Kemeny Street
- Mueri Street
- Vitullo Avenue
Highways[]
Places of Interest[]
Businesses[]
- Aycehol
- Cluckin' Bell (inaccessible)
- Fanny Crab's
- Globe Oil
- Gruppe 6
- Leprechaun's Winklepicker
- Libe
- Nail Her
- Nonna Pina's
- Pizza This...
- TW@ Internet Café
- Wigwam
Landmarks[]
- Babbage Drive Building (Albender Building)
- Babbage Drive-Cockerell Avenue Building (Amber Court Of Elizabeth)
- Babbage Drive-Drebbel Building (Hersch Tower)
- The Skyline Condominiums (551 Observer Highway)
- Vitullo Avenue Building (Edwin A. Stevens Hall of the Stevens Institute of Technology)
- Vitullo Avenue-Keneckie Avenue Building (609 Broad Street)
- Vitullo Avenue-Koresh Square Building (Griffith Building)