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News Briefs

Sept. 8 cleanup

By John Zipperer

On Sept. 8, Love Our City, an effort to clean up San Francisco while bringing together residents, merchants, and elected officials as a united front, invites people citywide to pic... Read More
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Benefit for Middle Polk

By John Zipperer

The new Discover Polk Community Benefit District became the 15th CBD in the city when it was formed in July. The group will have at its disposal about $600,000 a year to spend on i... Read More
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Anything but rapid transit

By John Zipperer

Get set for parking and driving disruption this month on Lombard Street. San Francisco Public Works notified locals that construction on the Lombard Street Vision Zero Project woul... Read More
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August facts and figures

By John Zipperer

12: percent of San Franciscans surveyed by the Tuolumne River Trust who knew that the Tuolumne River was the source of water for the Hetch Hetchy reservoir . . . 64: percent of lit... Read More
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Proposals for Campus for Change

By John Zipperer

Nine organizations submitted proposals for the redevelopment of the Presidio’s Fort Winfield Scott. The 30-acre site will be transformed into what the Presidio Trust is calling a... Read More
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Russian Hill neighbors picnic

By John Zipperer

The Russian Hill Neighbors group will hold its summer picnic August 11 from 12–2 p.m. at Tee-Pee Park on Hyde Street. The picnic’s open to RHN members and their families — bu... Read More
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Washington Square Park gets six-month closure

By John Zipperer

Neighbors and visitors to North Beach’s Washington Square Park will have to find other places to hang out in early 2019 when the park closes for six months while the city upgrade... Read More
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Union Street to Mayor: Clean up the streets

By John Zipperer

Upon the inauguration of London Breed as the city’s mayor, Union Street Association President Eleanor Carpenter congratulated her but implored her to deal with the city’s homel... Read More
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The last straw

By John Zipperer

On July 24, the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a ban on plastic straws, joining other cities including Vancouver, Berkeley, and Seattle. Known as the Single-Use Food Ware ... Read More
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Chrissy Field Avenue’s new life

By John Zipperer

In late July, the Presidio Trust closed Crissy Field Avenue to vehicular traffic and began the process of changing the road for use only by pedestrians and cyclists. The changes wi... Read More
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July facts and figures

By John Zipperer

$11 million: amount raised by the Francisco Park Conservancy toward the $25 million needed to construct Francisco Park . . . 97.2 percent: amount of an average wage earner’s sala... Read More
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Cost of renting

By John Zipperer

The cost of renting a one-bedroom residential unit in San Francisco is still rising, and several Northside neighborhoods are among the most expensive in the city. According to a ne... Read More
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Book ’em

By John Zipperer

The San Francisco Public Library announced in June that it had been named the 2018 Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year. The award recognizes the library that best shows commun... Read More
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Crime update

By John Zipperer

Auto burglaries in the region covered by Northern Station dropped by more than 26 percent in the first part of the year, from January through early June. In that same time period, ... Read More
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Knife crimes

By John Zipperer

Police took into custody suspects in two separate knife attacks, one of which is also being classified as a hate crime. On June 5, a white male suspect stabbed an African American ... Read More


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