San Francisco
San Francisco Alamo Square Alamo Square Cole Valley Cole Valley Divisadero Divisadero Fillmore Fillmore Hayes Valley Hayes Valley Western Addition Western Addition
Supervisor Dean Preston pushes for free Muni for the rest of the pandemic
The District 5 supervisor is lobbying the SFMTA to eliminate fare until COVID-19 blows over, “to restore ridership and put money into struggling San Franciscan’s pockets when they need it most.” Read More
San Francisco Alamo Square Alamo Square Cole Valley Cole Valley Divisadero Divisadero Fillmore Fillmore Hayes Valley Hayes Valley Western Addition Western Addition
Supervisor Dean Preston pushes for free Muni for the rest of the pandemic
The District 5 supervisor is lobbying the SFMTA to eliminate fare until COVID-19 blows over, “to restore ridership and put money into struggling San Franciscan’s pockets when they need it most.” Read More
San Francisco Civic Center Mid-Market Tenderloin
Tenderloin's La Cocina food hall prepares for spring opening
The Tenderloin’s Municipal Marketplace, led by Mission-based nonprofit La Cocina, expects a soft opening this spring starting with take-out and delivery options, after facing construction and safety delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More
.webp?w=488&h=292&fit=crop&crop=edges)
San Francisco Design District Potrero Hill
Amazon submits plans for proposed six-acre warehouse at Potrero Hill Recology site
The online retailer hopes to demolish everything that’s currently on seven lots along Seventh Street, and build a three-story delivery and distribution station. Read More
San Francisco Divisadero Fillmore Hayes Valley Lower Haight
Bay Area Tigray community hosts teach-in about ongoing crisis in Ethiopia today
The Bay Area Tigray Community is hosting a virtual event this afternoon to raise awareness of the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. Read More
San Francisco
The Cliff House's mini-museum of SF artifacts is up for auction and history buffs hope some of it stays together
A local group of history buffs and conservators is hoping that the collection — at least some of it — can remain together and available for public view, even after the Cliff House potentially becomes a different restaurant. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown
Teens create a full, virtual replica of San Francisco's Chinatown in Minecraft
Shelter in place won’t block a youth-led tour group from giving Chinatown tours, as they’ve rebuilt the neighborhood in the virtual world of Minecraft. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown North Beach
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers, dies at 101
Legendary North Beach poet, publisher, and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti, has died. He was 101 years of age. The beloved literary icon died peacefully in his San Francisco home surrounded by loved ones, "holding the hands of his son and his son’s girlfriend, 'as he took his last breath,'" his son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti said on Tuesday. Read More
San Francisco Bernal Heights Mission
Virgil's Sea Room closes permanently while next door El Rio reopens for to-go drinks
Two bars, two different fates. Over in Bernal Heights/La Lengua, next-door bars El Rio and Virgil's Sea Room, which almost share a backyard were it not for a fence, have arrived at diverging moments in this COVID year. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
During COVID year, Castro business owners report over $120,000 in smashed windows
Since the Castro Merchants launched a broken-window recovery initiative and survey last Thursday, neighborhood business owners have reported 72 incidents of vandalized and broken windows at a cost of $135,472.74. Read More
San Francisco Cole Valley Inner Sunset
Neighborhood groups sue to halt massive UCSF Parnassus campus rebuild and housing project
Former SF mayor Art Agnos is among those speaking out and filing lawsuits claiming that an environmental impact report on the expansion was shoddy and rushed. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
Castro neighborhood group announces new Harvey Milk Plaza redesign team
Today the Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza (FHMP), announced the selection of SWA Group as the new design firm to redesign Castro's Harvey Milk Plaza (Market and Castro Streets). Read More
San Francisco Hayes Valley Western Addition
House parade: moving day for the Englander House in photos
Hundreds of San Franciscans gathered to watch the 139-year-old Victorian house move from 807 Franklin St. to its new home at 635 Fulton St. on February 21, 2021. Here's a recap of the day in photos in case you weren't among them. Read More
San Francisco SoMa
Vice President Kamala Harris has sold her SoMa condo
The sitting vice president of the United States no longer needs her SoMa apartment, and it sold with an asking price of $800,000 just one week after the listing hit the market. Read More
San Francisco Hayes Valley Western Addition
Historic Victorian to be moved from Franklin Street to Fulton Street on Sunday
A historic Victorian house standing alone near the corner of Franklin and Turk Streets will be moved to a new home on Sunday morning after nearly eight years of planning. Read More
San Francisco
San Francisco could end up having 3,000 semi-permanent dining parklets once pandemic ends
Thanks to a streamlined approval process from the city and a proposed law making its way through the state legislature, San Francisco could be looking at an outdoor dining explosion in the coming years — going from a town with very few al fresco dining options to one with several thousand relatively new ones. Read More
San Francisco Japantown Marina Mission North Beach
News from the Bay 'hoods: Muddy's closes in the Mission, Senor Sisig opens Oakland location
A priest has died of COVID-19 at Saints Peter and Paul Church in North Beach, 27-year-old Muddy's Coffee House has closed at 24th and Valencia, and an East San Jose gym that had remained open in defiance of health orders has temporarily closed. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown
SF Chinatown adds more Lunar New Year security measures in wake of attacks
Increased foot patrols, handbills, and police liaison programs aim to beef up security in advance of this weekend’s Year of the Ox celebrations. Read More
San Francisco Inner Richmond Outer Richmond
Richmond District sees huge uptick in burglaries during first weeks of 2021
There's been a massive jump in burglaries in the Richmond District, year over year, according to new data from the SFPD's Richmond Station. And while burglaries are reportedly up in multiple neighborhoods, we're only hearing a definitive report on the first five weeks of 2021 from the Richmond. Read More
San Francisco Chinatown
New Chinatown parklet murals ring in Lunar New Year
The temporary COVID-19 mural magic of the Paint the Void project comes to Chinatown in time for the Lunar New Year feasts, as three restaurant parklets get rejuvenating murals. Read More
San Francisco Mission Terrace
Lucy Mirigian, San Francisco’s oldest resident, has died at 114
Mirigian, an avid Giants fan who had lived in the same Balboa Park house she bought back in the 1950s, passed away Friday morning surrounded by friends and family. At 114, she was believed to be the oldest-living San Franciscan. Read More
San Francisco Hayes Valley
Falling tree demolishes parklet outside Hayes Valley restaurant Absinthe
DPW crews are dealing with the aftermath of a huge tree falling and smashing a parklet at the popular Absinthe Brasserie & Bar. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
Church & Market taqueria Casa Mexicana damaged in 1-alarm kitchen fire
Friday evening, Castro area taqueria Casa Mexicana (180 Church St., between Duboce and 14th) was damaged by a one-alarm grease fire in its kitchen. Read More
San Francisco Castro Duboce Triangle
Castro neighborhood bar Pilsner Inn reopens with patio seating after nearly one-year hiatus
Castro neighborhood bar Pilsner Inn (225 Church St.) reopened last week after a nearly one-year hiatus caused by shelter-in-place restrictions. The Pilsner's first day of outdoor drinks and food was February 5, much to the delight of customers, employees, and the bar's owners. Read More
San Francisco Lower Nob Hill Polk Tenderloin
Navigation center targeting homeless youth opens on Post and Hyde Streets
This city’s first navigation center dedicated to homeless youth aged 18-24 opened in District 3 this week, four years after funding was set aside to build it. Read More