San Francisco is constantly reinventing itself. Gold Rush seekers giving way to Comstock silver barons. Merchantman brigs surrendering to coal powered steamships, then complemented by coal-powered railroads. The latter engineered by entrepreneurs with names such as Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins and Crocker. Which got me thinking about how, less than a century later, the outer Sunset […]
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City Agency Hearings
The Board of Supervisors are on summer break. The SFMTA Operations and Customer Service Committee will meet Tuesday, August 13, 3:30 p.m., at 1 S. Van Ness Ave., 7th fl. Agenda and supporting docs The SFMTA Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, August 13, 6 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. Agenda The SFMTA […]
Notes on the summer Glen Park Association meeting
There seemed to be a lot of new faces at the meeting at the Rec Center on July 25. Maybe they wanted to hear and speak to Supervisor Mandelman, or find out the latest in the Kern alley saga, or broaden their vision of the future with the presentation on autonomous vehicles in San […]
DHB Median Cleanup Aug 10
Hello friends and supporters of the Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Project, Please join us on Saturday, Aug 10 to collect trash and weed our median islands. (A previous email listed this Saturday, Aug 3, but we needed to move the date.) A big thank you to our regular volunteers and new ones who come to […]
City Agency Hearings
(The Board of Supervisors are on vacation until September 2) The Park, Recreation and Open Space Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, August 6, 6:30 p.m., at McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan St. Agenda The Historic Preservation Commission will meet Wednesday, August 7, 12:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. Agenda and supporting docs The Recreation and […]
Ten Year Anniversary
Summer fun in Glen Canyon Park
It was organized mayhem on the ball field at the park Monday. Rec and Park’s Silver Tree and Pine Lake day camps squared off against each other in all manner of games. In the middle, some older folks got centered with Tai Chi. The release of energy could have powered the neighborhood for a week. […]
Community Meeting at Ingleside Station
Please join us at Ingleside Station Community Room. Come to talk about district crimes and updates, upcomng events and responses to questions and concerns in our community. Tuesday, August 20, 2019 7 – 9 pm 1 Sgt. John V. Young Lane San Francisco, CA 94112
Message from Captain Hart about this week’s burglaries
I have just posted to NextDoor seeking the neighborhood’s help with any surveillance video of these incidents: The following 4 commercial burglaries have occurred in the Glen Park neighborhood in the past week: 1) 7/21 overnight to 22, Destination Baking Company. 598 Chenery St. 190-529-930 2) 7/21 overnight to 22 – Higher Grounds Coffee – […]
Four Glen Park businesses burglarized this week
It hasn’t been a good week for Glen Park merchants, to say the least. Monday morning (July 22), after midnight, Destination Bakery was broken into. Burglars kicked in the glass door, which has since been replaced. They took the cash register, which only had around eight dollars, said Indy, a bakery employee. In the same […]