Debra Carvalho, owner of Pono Skincare and Waxing Boutique at 2860 Diamond Street, has been named SFPD Ingleside Station’s Citizen of the Month, January 2022. The Ingleside District covers a sprawling part of the city, encompassing the area south of Cesar Chavez Street to the San Mateo County line and west from Highway 101 to […]
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Greenway Flag Garden? Not exactly …
It may look like a garden of colored flags but in fact it’s a meadow-in-the-making. On Saturday, January 15, about 20 volunteers planted more than 400 native grass plants on the Glen Park Greenway between Brompton and Lippard Avenues. These are the backbone of what will grow to become Glen Park’s Native Meadow. We built […]
Calling Non-Profits: GPA Opens Grant Applications to Support Local Projects
We’re very pleased to announce that this year the Glen Park Association will offer up to $10,000 in grants to the community, with a maximum grant size of $2,500. The application deadline is February 28, 2022, and grantees will be announced by the end of April. For complete details on the grant, guidelines and requirements […]
New owners for the Glen Park Station bar
It was Day #1 and Sean Kelly and Shane Ryan–yes, Sean and Shane– have just replaced the owners’ license on the wall of the Glen Park Station bar, four years shy of its 100th anniversary. So far that’s the only physical change in the premises. On January 5 the business partners became the new owners […]
43 Masonic and 44 O’Shaughnessy Temporary Emergency Transit Lanes
SFMTA Virtual Public Hearing Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 1PM If you would like to comment on our proposal to make the 43 Masonic-44-O’Shaughnessy transit improvements (described below) permanent, you may attend the SFMTA Public Hearing online or file your comments by 5 p.m. on January 17, 2022 as follows: Phone: 415.646.4470 Email: MTABoard@SFMTA.com with subject line “43-44 […]
GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE
2021 Recap
I’m excited to be ringing in the new year with my first Glen Park Real Estate blog post! For those who don’t know me, my name is Amanda Martin, and I am a real estate agent with BarbCo Real Estate Group (aka Barbagelata, circa 1952). I started working with buyers and sellers in 2014, and […]
Arlington Path Workday 1/15
Join your cross-cut neighbors Saturday, January 15, from 10 a.m. for the first monthly work party of 2022! Where: Roanoke and Arlington by the bike station, with a focus on the green areas on the block between Roanoke and Natick When: Saturday, January 15, 10 a.m. What: garbage pick up, graffiti removal, weeding and pruning especially adjacent to […]
Diamond/Bosworth planters put out of their misery
It seemed like a lovely idea at the time. Federal funds had been allocated to improve the Diamond/Bosworth intersection. Along with the street work that took place around 2015, SFPW installed four planter boxes on each of three corners of the intersection. This was consistent with beautification goals set forth in the Glen Park Community […]
AD17 Candidates 1/13
Meet the candidates vying to replace David Chiu to represent Assembly District 17 on Thursday, January 13, 2022, at a virtual meeting hosted by the Diamond Heights Community Association, the Glen Park Association and Upper Noe Neighbors. At 7:15 p.m. you’ll meet: David Campos, chief of staff for District Attorney Chesa Boudin, former SF […]
Greenway work parties this month
Hello Friend and Supporter of the Greenway, I hope that you had wonderful Holidays and that you are longing to get your hands (and even perhaps your knees) a bit muddy on the Greenway! On Saturday we begin the planting of the Native Meadow. There are three work parties in the next two weeks. Are […]