The Glen Park Association Safety Committee put together a great flyer covering safety issues, and on Thursday GPA’s safety coordinator Carolyn Deacy, Stephanie Hagio and Dist. 8 supervisor candidate Scott Wiener handed out over 500 flyers in 25 minutes at the Glen Park BART — with the help to two uniformed SFPD officers send by […]
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Last call for the 26-Valencia
A nice story in the Chron about the demise of the 26 this coming Saturday. It turns out that the route began in 1892 as one of the city’s oldest trolleys. —– By Alissa Figueroa and Deia De Brito On a late Monday afternoon, nextbus.com predicted the 26-Valencia would arrive in 21 minutes at the […]
Kiki-Yo Food and Toy Drive for the Holidays
Food Drive: Now through December 18th, Kiki-Yo is accepting non-perishable foods – no glass containers, please – all of which will go to feed Glen Park neighborhood residents this holiday season. Plus Kiki-Yo will continue its tradition – now 13 years strong – of collecting toys to support the SF Fire Department Toy Drive. Unwrapped […]
Flasher Alert
From Ingleside station newsletter.. CRIME ALERT! On Sunday November 29th at 1:40 p.m, a 9 year old girl was in Crocker Amazon Park. A person approached her and exposed himself to her while she was in the children’s playground. The suspect is described as a white male, 50 to 55 years of age, unknown height, […]
Don’t expect new bike lanes before next summer
Glen Park is set to get new bike lanes — but don’t expect them to be striped until next summer at the earliest. Superior Court Judge Peter Busch ruled last week that the city can proceed with eight proposed bike lanes — none in or near Glen Park — but will have to wait to […]
Look out for Tourists: Glen Park Makes the NY Times Travel Section
Published: November 27, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO — As fires raged downtown after the 1906 earthquake, residents of this city fled to two nearby districts to the south, Bernal Heights and Glen Park. Though part of San Francisco, both areas looked more like countryside then, with open ranchland, vineyards and orchards, dirt roads and wetlands, and […]
Meet with Supervisor Dufty on Sat. Dec 5 at St. Aidan’s.
Have a gripe about City Hall? A compliment? A suggestion on how to make Glen Park better? People who live and work in Glen Park and Diamond Heights will have an opportunity to raise issues with Supervisor Bevan Dufty, the neighborhoods’ representative on the Board of Supervisors and a mayoral hopeful, at an upcoming community […]
A sewer-level view down Chenery St.
The San Francisco Water Dept. was out in Glen Park today with a totally cool 6-wheeled gizmo about the size of a small dog that slowly made its way down the inside of the main sewer line down Chenery and sent photos back up to the truck above ground. One worker stood near the manhole […]
Car break-ins on the rise – Watch out
Some advice from Glen Park’s Safety Committee Chair: Car break-ins (AKA Auto-Boosting) are on the increase in the area. Please take the following precautions to prevent it from happening to your car. Do not leave anything in your car, valuable or not, including GPS, ipod, phone chargers etc. All consoles should be closed, trunks covered, […]
Hateful graffiti quickly taken care of at Glen Park Rec Center
Update from Capt. Lazar at Ingleside Station: Captain’s Message: We have received reports of some very hateful graffiti in Glen Park. We take this crime very seriously. The Recreation and Park Department has painted over the graffiti and we have a plan in place to capture the suspects! ====== Quick work by the Park Patrol […]