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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 […]
Dreaming of Pedestrian Heaven on San Francisco’s Oldest Street
By Michael Rhodes |
Enjoying a car-free Grant Avenue at Noodle Fest. Photo: Michael Rhodes Could San Francisco’s first and oldest thoroughfare become the city’s first true pedestrianized street? Since the day in 1835 when William Richardson drew the first map of Yerba Buena that included just one street, called "Calle de la fundacion" — Foundation Street, which ran […]
Mayor Lee to Bring Sunday Streets to Chinatown and North Beach This Year
By Aaron Bialick |
Chinatown and North Beach, the “densest neighborhoods west of the Mississippi,” are set to be graced by Sunday Streets for the first time this year, Mayor Ed Lee announced today. City leaders and advocates said they’re eager for the opportunity to let residents experience Grant Avenue and California Street free of car traffic. “Sunday Streets will be different […]
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 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 […]
Muni Monday: The Future of the Central Subway
By Dave Snyder |
Central Subway Chinatown station. Graphic: SFMTA Now that the Central Subway has received its Record Of Decision (ROD) from the Federal Transit Administration, advocates are pressing the MTA to start planning for the subway’s extension into North Beach and beyond. The Central Subway is considered phase two of the T-Third Muni Metro line, extending that […]