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Scenes from Sunday Streets Western Addition
By Bryan Goebel |
An estimated 10,000 people turned out to celebrate Sunday Streets in the Western Addition, NOPA, Fillmore and Alamo Square neighborhoods yesterday. By all indications, the event was a success, and the weather, well, perfect. And we’re in for another treat this week. For the second time in Sunday Streets history, San Franciscans will get to […]
Sunday Streets: Golden Gate Park and the Great Highway
By Aaron Bialick |
From Sunday Streets: Sunday Streets are events that encourage recreation, community activities and fun in San Francisco. Sunday Streets closes stretches of city streets to automobile traffic, and opens them to people for several hours on a various Sundays throughout the year, so participants can enjoy a large, temporary, public space where they can bike, […]
Sunday Streets Returns to Chinatown (But Not North Beach) This Weekend
By Aaron Bialick |
Sunday Streets returns to Chinatown this weekend with a car-free route running along Grant Avenue and east toward the Embarcadero. It’ll be Sunday Streets’ second run in Chinatown, following a highly popular event last year, but the route will be different: Rather than running into North Beach all the way to Coit Tower, it’ll turn […]
“Penguins to Penguins” Sunday Streets Kicks Off This Weekend
By Matthew Roth |
Now imagine riding on that road. Flickr photo: J.B. Davis The next two Sunday Streets are moving from the heart of the busy Mission to two of San Francisco’s more picturesque natural locales as it winds through Golden Gate Park to the Great Highway along Ocean Beach. This Sunday, August 9th and again on Sunday, […]
First Walking Sunday Streets a Hit in Chinatown and North Beach
By Bryan Goebel |
San Francisco’s Grant Avenue, the city’s oldest street, was opened to pedestrians only yesterday in a milestone Sunday Streets event that drew thousands of people to the historic neighborhoods of Chinatown and North Beach on a sunny, 74-degree day. The city’s first walking Sunday Streets on a thoroughfare that seems like one of the most […]
Sunday Streets Coming to the Richmond in October
By Aaron Bialick |
Later this year, for the first time, the Richmond District will be graced with Sunday Streets. The event in late October will run from inner Clement Street all the way out to Ocean Beach, D1 Supervisor Eric Mar announced at a Board of Supervisors meeting this week. Organizers haven’t established the details of the route […]