Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Bernal Heights
Bernal Heights as described on the
SFGate neighborhood guide:
"Many San Franciscans never travel to Bernal Heights, located as it is at the southern edge of the Mission valley, served by only a few city bus lines and perched atop a steep hill, to boot. Those who do wander up the incline may be surprised by this quaint urban village that seems forgotten by time. The main shopping strip of Cortland Avenue is populated by small markets, cafés, fruit stands and barber shops, and the residential streets are a cluster of diminutive bungalows and community gardens. However, Bernal Heights bears the influence of city sophistication, with trendy boutiques and innovative restaurants scattered among its homely storefronts. Newcomers may also be startled by the mostly unheralded views that unfold at their feet, especially on the northern side of the hill."
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Golden Gate Park - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Lone Mountain
Lone Mountain as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide taken from Wikipedia:
"Lone Mountain is... the area immediately surrounding the University of San Francisco campus, to the south of Laurel Heights. It is bordered by Geary Boulevard to the north, Arguello Boulevard to the west, Masonic Avenue to the east, and Fulton Street to the south. Lone Mountain is one of San Francisco's historic hills. The neighborhood rests on the former location of the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Masonic Cemetery, and Greek Orthodox Cemetery. Graves in these cemeteries, along with most graves in San Francisco, were moved to Colma by the 1940s. Lone Mountain is also home to the Angelo J. Rossi Playground and Rossi Pool at Arguello Boulevard and Anza Street."
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- Janis Stone
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown -
Bernal Heights -
Castro -
Cole Valley -
Cow Hollow -
Diamond Heights -
Fisherman's Warf -
Golden Gate Park -
Haight -
Hayes Valley -
Inner Richmond -
Lake Street -
Laurel Heights -
The Marina -
Nob Hill -
Noe Valley -
North Beach -
Outer Richmond -
Outer Sunset/West Portal -
Pacific Heights -
Potrero Hill -
Russian Hill -
Sacramento Street -
St. Francis Wood -
Sea Cliff -
SoMa -
Sunset -
Telegraph Hill -
Union Square -
Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - North Beach
North Beach as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"This is where San Francisco's history all began. From Fisherman's Wharf up and over the hills to the borders of the Tenderloin and west to the Civic Center complex, home to the newly restored City Hall with its 14 carat golden dome, one of the finest examples of Beaux Arts buildings in the the country. City Hall is neighbored by the grand buildings of Louise B. Davies Hall, the Opera House, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium plus more. On any given Sunday you can hear in the tenderloin gospel music at Glide Memorial Church to the magnificent sounds of Grace Cathedrals organ while ending your day w/ jazz at one of the many North Beach haunts."
SFGate says, "North Beach is that rare thing -- a neighborhood that manages to be a perennial hit with tourists, and also to remain beloved by San Franciscans. It's best known as San Francisco's Little Italy, with its high density of check-clothed ristorantes, caffes and Old World delicatessens. It's also a popular pilgrimage for fans of the Beat movement seeking the old haunts of Kerouac and Ginsberg. However, North Beach is no relic, and it has much to offer beyond pasta and poetry." Read more
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Cole Valley
Cole Valley as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
...while partly in the Haight-Ashbury and part in the Parnassus neighborhoods, Cole Valley has a character all its own.
SFGate says:
...bordered on the west by Stanyan Street and the Sutro Forest, on the south by Tank Hill and on the east by Clayton Street. Residents are largely families and young professionals, though there is no trace of the snootiness that has affected other parts of the city. Most of the businesses in Cole Valley are of the mom-and-pop variety, in lieu of chain stores or franchises, and shop owners are outwardly supportive of each other. Read more
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- Janis Stone
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Hayes Valley - Inner Richmond - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Outer Sunset/West Portal - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - SoMa - Sunset - Telegraph Hill - Union Square - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Potrero Hill
Potrero Hill as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"On Potrero Hill, you can relax in brilliant sunshine while watching fog engulf the rest of the city. Bounded roughly by 16th, Third and Cesar Chavez streets and Potrero Avenue, the neighborhood is relatively isolated by freeways and large tracts of industrial landscape, giving Potrero Hill its own pace and a feeling of distance from San Francisco."
SFGate says, "Relax in brilliant sunshine while watching fog engulf the rest of the city, in the former 'hood of OJ Simpson and Seals Stadium." Read more
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- Sights and Culture
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Chinatown
Chinatown as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
Nestled between Nob Hill, the Financial District and North Beach you can find Chinatown.It is like being in a different country without ever leaving San Francisco.
SFGate does a great job of highlighting the features of this quaint neighborhood.
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- Mick Orton
Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Golden Gate Park - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods -SoMa
SoMa as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"SOMA (South of Market) is a huge district, sprawling from the Embarcadero to Eleventh Street, between Market and Townsend. The neighborhood is a patchwork of warehouses, swanky nightspots, residential hotels, art spaces, loft apartments, furniture showrooms and the tenacious Internet companies that survived the tech market collapse. Although a lot of building has gone on in recent years, it is still not densely developed. You can walk several desolate blocks before suddenly finding a hopping restaurant."
SFGate says, "This former industrial zone is in a cultural renaissance, with museums, galleries and multimedia companies reviving the area. " Read more
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Hayes Valley - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Sunset - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Sunset
The
Sunset as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"The Outer, Central & Inner Sunset operates like a city within a city with its tidy streets, excellent schools, and family owned businesses. The fogginess of this district hasn't discouraged the 40,000 students, young professionals, and middle-class families from nesting and/or embracing this quiet and mellow suburb."
SFGate says, "Despite gentrification and fog, it retains the laid-back feeling of a small town -- one that just happens to have a funky edge, an intriguing ethnic mix and great restaurants." Read more
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Hayes Valley - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Western Addition
The
Western Addition as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"The Western Addition gave birth to the music neighborhood of the city since the 1800's. Great jazz musicians/vocalist such as Charlie Parker to Billie Holiday played in the jazz and blues clubs along Fillmore Street. Yes, the same Fillmore Street that dominated the psychedelic music scene of the 1960's with acts at the Fillmore Auditorium orchestrated by the great Bill Graham himself to John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room."
SFGate says, "If Perhaps the most ethnically and economically diverse neighborhood in San Francisco, the Western Addition feels more like several neighborhoods. And, in a sense, it is -- from the stunning views at Alamo Square to the historic Fillmore to ever-changing Divisadero St., you can experience several distinct vibes in the space of a few blocks." Read more
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Outer Sunset/West Portal
The
Outer Sunset/West Portal as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"The Outer, Central & Inner Sunset operates like a city within a city with its tidy streets, excellent schools, and family owned businesses. The fogginess of this district hasn't discouraged the 40,000 students, young professionals, and middle-class families from nesting and/or embracing this quiet and mellow suburb."
SFGate says, "Although this southwestern corner of the city is often ignored in guidebooks, you'll find there's lots to explore including a neighborhood caught in a '50s time warp and dozens of multi-ethnic businesses." Read more
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- Mick OrtonPrevious Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Hayes Valley - Inner Richmond - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - SoMa - Sunset - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Hayes Valley
Hayes Valley as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"The new gentrification of Hayes Valley boast of an urbane neighborhood filled with galleries, antique shops, restaurants and book nooks. While the New Conservatory Theatre Complex, the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum are all magnets for lovers of the avant-garde theater."
SFGate says, "Fifteen years ago, the thought of finding one of San Francisco's ultra-chic corridors in Hayes Valley would have been considered absurd. Like New York City's Times Square of old, the area, bordered by the Van Ness performing-arts district and the Western Addition around Laguna Street, was a seedy reminder for opera and symphony patrons of the city's homeless and drug problems. But over the past decade, Hayes Valley has developed into a haven for haute couture. Where the terms "ladies of the street" and "gentlemen of the street" once identified those who conducted an illegal exchange of various earthly sins for money, today they refer to the street's myriad window shoppers and restaurant-goers. Where the crack houses and tenements once stood, now there are trendy fashion boutiques, SoHo-style funky art galleries, high-end interior-decorating shops, top-notch restaurants and hip nightspots." Read more
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Haight
The Haight as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"Haight-Ashbury is filled with Victorians and is the home of the most famous corner in hippiedom, Haight & Ashbury. Legendary musical groups such as the Grateful Dead at 112 Lyon Street and singer Janis Joplin's pad on Buena Vista Park have helped make this."
SFGate says, "If there's any area of San Francisco that evokes images of the long-gone '60s hippie culture, the Haight is it. Fragments of that flower-power, incense-burning, acid-dropping, tie-dye-wearing, peace-and-love-vibing era can be purchased at smoke shops and Eastern-influenced outlets bearing names like Dreams of Kathmandu, Pipe Dreams and The Love of Ganesha. But save for a few hippie relics, the Haight today is a whole new scene. Exclusive boutiques, high-end vintage-clothing shops, second-hand stores, Internet cafés and hip restaurants have all settled in, making the Haight one of San Francisco's commercial centers." Read more
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Inner Richmond
The
Inner Richmond as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"Stroll along the Inner Mission's wide avenues and you'll be struck by the profusion of taquerias, pupuserias, produce markets, Salvadoran bakeries, salon de bellezas (beauty salons), auto-repair shops and check-cashing centers that post rates for wiring money to Guatemala and Nicaragua -- all evidence of the Central American and Mexican families that have been settling the Mission en masse since the 1950s."
SFGate says, "Traditionally the Latino quarter of SF, the Mission is home to artists and families, and offers a lively nightlife scene." Read more
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- Mick OrtonPrevious Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Hayes Valley - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - SoMa - Sunset - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Fisherman's Warf
Fisherman's Warf as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
From
Wikipedia, "Fisherman's Wharf... Roughly speaking it encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Street east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. It is mainly a tourist attraction, known for being the location of Pier 39, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Ghirardelli Square, Ripley's Believe it or Not, the Musée Mécanique, ferry rides to Alcatraz and restaurants that serve seafood, most notably dungeness crab. Transportation to Fisherman's Wharf can be an attraction of itself, the F Market runs through the area, the Powell-Hyde cable car lines runs to Aquatic Park, at the edge of Fisherman's Wharf, and the Powell-Mason cable car line runs a few blocks away. Other popular areas in San Francisco, such as Chinatown, Lombard Street and North Beach are all located in proximity to Fisherman's Wharf."
SFGate says, "All San Franciscans love to hate Fisherman's Wharf. Content never to visit the area, they complain of the tacky shops selling cheap souvenirs, the "novelty" museums whose novelty has long worn off and busloads of tourists blocking the view to Alcatraz." Read
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- Mick Orton
Previous Neighborhoods:Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Golden Gate Park - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - Outer Richmond - Pacific Heights - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - Telegraph Hill
Focus on San Francisco Neighborhoods - Union Square
Union Square as described on the
SFResidence neighborhood guide:
"Union Square, one of San Francisco's main retail and cultural centers, also refers to the actual park bordered by Geary, Powell, Post and Stockton streets. Set aside as a park in 1850 and named before the start of the Civil War as a tribute to the frequent demonstrations in support of the Union troop, the park got a major renovation and restoration in 2002."
SFGate says, "For those who come to SF to shop, this is where to start." Read more
here.
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- Janis Stone
Previous Neighborhoods:
Chinatown - Bernal Heights - Castro - Cow Hollow - Diamond Heights - Fisherman's Warf - Golden Gate Park - Haight - Hayes Valley - Inner Richmond - Lake Street - Laurel Heights - The Marina - Nob Hill - Noe Valley - North Beach - Outer Richmond - Outer Sunset/West Portal - Pacific Heights - Potrero Hill - Russian Hill - Sacramento Street - St. Francis Wood - Sea Cliff - SoMa - Sunset - Telegraph Hill - Western Addition
