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Nicholas Dewar, Greenway Project

Short notice–SF Civil Grand Jury report: Come Hell or Highwater: Flood Management in a Changing Climate

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The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury (CGJ) has issued its report, with findings and recommendations, evaluating the city’s flood management system in light of climate change. The CGJ and the City’s response can be found here. The Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight committee will have a hearing to discuss the issues raised in […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–August recap

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Greetings Glen Park! We have now moved solidly into the post Labor Day fall market in San Francisco. Lots of inventory has been popping up along with quite a few “Coming Soon” properties that are not yet viewable to the general public. Other places that I look for indications that inventory is on the rise […]

Noe Valley Art Festival and Art Walk– Sunday, Sept. 22

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND 10AM-4PM NOE VALLEY TOWN SQUARE 3861 24TH STREET Mark your calendar for the 3rd annual, FREE to the public, Noe Valley Art Festival featuring 23 artists who will be showcasing and selling photographs, paintings, drawings, multi media art, jewelry, ceramics, fabric art, digital art and sculpture. Many of the artists are locals […]

September 2024 SFPD Ingleside Station Newsletter

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Hello Ingleside Community! Our National Night out on 8/6/24 here at Ingleside side Station was a big success! I would like to acknowledge the members of the Ingleside Community Police Advisory Board (CPAB) for their hard work and dedication in putting the event together. Huge thanks to Annie Hsia, Anna Liao, Kelvin Chan, Rex Tabora, […]

Glen Park Filmmaker’s Two New Films Screen at Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema

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Award-winning filmmaker Dan Goldes, who has lived in Glen Park since 1998, has two new short documentary films screening at the 21st version of Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, Sept. 5 – 7. Information about the free Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema is available at bhoutdoorcine.org. “Waiter For Life” provides an intimate look at a group of […]

Fatal accident in busy intersection of Glen Park

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Sometime after 1pm this afternoon, a fatal accident occurred at the southwest corner of Diamond and Bosworth Streets. According to a bystander who overheard a witness telling SFPD, a woman is deceased after being hit by a truck outside the Glen Park Market. The driver remained at the scene. According to the most current information […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–July recap

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Happy August! This summer has been one of the busiest for me in my career and I’ve really been enjoying the hustle and bustle. I’m one of those people that gets a lot more done the more that needs to be done. I’ve been noticing that prospective buyers are really getting off the fence and […]

Glen Park Hardware is closing

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In a blow to the neighborhood commercial corridor, Glen Park Hardware is closing after just six months under its most recent ownership, a limited liability corporation named Rikbull with a mailing address in San Carlos in San Mateo County. As indicated by the nine signs in the store window, everything is 50% off; store hours […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–June recap

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I’m writing this during the most sweltering 4th of July weekend. Wow, it’s been really hot for a long time! I have a listing in Novato and was over there the other day – 107 degrees and almost impossible to grab the steering wheel to drive when getting back in my car. I think this […]

Pigeons–a political mess

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About a week or two ago, a curious sight appeared at the Glen Park BART station plaza–a young woman with a a hawk perched on her finger. The Glen Park News wasn’t able to approach her to see what she was doing there. Fortunately the San Francisco Standard was on it and we can report […]

Canyon Market Bakes

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(Steiman retired in 2019 after 35 years as an editor and writer at Wine Spectator magazine. Prior to that he was food and wine editor at the San Francisco Examiner and hosted daily radio programs on food on KCBS and KNBR. He  lives in Glen Park.) Photos: Harvey Steiman Glen Park is asleep at 3am. […]

Glen Park’s Nicki Michaels nominated for prestigious award

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Nicki Michaels, resident of Glen Park since 2007, has been nominated along with two collaborators for an Eisner award, the “Oscar” of comics and graphic novels. There are 32 categories of awards. The trio was nominated in the Best Comics-Related Book category for Flamed Out: The Underground Adventures and Comix Genius of Willy Murphy. (Fantagraphics […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–MAY recap

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We are officially moving into summertime! With many schools already out for summer, people will start leaving town for their eagerly awaited vacations. This, coupled with our San Francisco counterintuitive cold summer weather, typically results in a summertime real estate slowdown. That said, there are a lot of buyers out there, and those who are […]

June 2024 SFPD Ingleside Station Newsletter

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Happy June to you and everyone in the Ingleside Station Community!  Summer is just around the corner, and we are looking forward to it.  However, it’s not all fun and games.  Summer brings the law enforcement community some different challenges.  Summer is the time when many of us go on vacation, leaving our homes unattended.  […]

Cecil Williams, longtime champion of the poor, co-founder of Glide Church, dies at 94 (SF Chronicle)

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In addition to his great works for the city of San Francisco, Cecil Williams was a decades-long resident of Hiliritas Avenue in Glen Park. Upon his death last month The San Francisco Chronicle published this extensive obituary detailing a most extraordinary life. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cecil-williams-obituary-17820200.php His memorial was held on May 12, also written up in the […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–April recap

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And just like that it’s May! I’m a little late getting this information out as I’ve been quite busy. Things are really heating up in the housing market with short periods of cooling off whenever the rates jump back up again. Everyone was talking about how the rates were going to continue to go down […]

May 2024 SFPD Ingleside Station Newsletter

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Happy May to you and everyone in the Ingleside Station Community!  Summer is just around the corner, and we are looking forward to it.  However, it’s not all fun and games.  Summer brings the law enforcement community some different challenges.  Summer is the time when many of us go on vacation, leaving our homes unattended.  […]

Noe Valley Garden Tour Saturday, May 18

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Mark your calendars for this year’s Noe Valley Garden Tour, which is on Saturday, May 18th. The Garden committee has finalized the gardens to be included on the Tour and you will be amazed at what the massive El Nino winter rains have done for gardens this year. Come be inspired! Featured gardens will showcase a […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–March recap

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Happy Spring! Wow, we are right back in the swing of things again. The numbers are showing slightly less inventory coming on in the second half of March than in previous years (citywide), but more properties pending and selling… so that’s our supply and demand crunch right there. I’m happy to have gotten three clients […]

April 2024 SFPD Ingleside Station Newsletter

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Hello Ingleside Community! March 2024 proved to be a busy month for Ingleside Station. Officers responded to calls for service, participated in operations geared to reducing retail theft, traffic collisions, robberies and burglaries. All the hard work and outside the box thinking that the Ingleside Staff members have done is paying off. We have been […]

Free earthquake warning app and preparedness info now available

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Disasters like earthquakes can occur at any time with little warning. The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and Earthquake Warning California are encouraging Californians to have an emergency plan in place and download free resources like the MyShake App, available in the App Store or Google Play. You might wish to spread the word on […]

Good advice from a neighbor

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Regarding your story about mailbox theft: It would be good to remind folks to register for Informed Delivery on the USPS website to get notifications of what is coming in their mail each day so they know what was stolen.

Are you a victim of mailbox mischief?

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The mailboxes of several Glen Park apartment buildings were forced open overnight on March 25/26, and mail from a building on the unit block of Joost Avenue was found around the corner, scattered on the lawn of Glen Park School. While walking his dog at 6:00 am on March 26, Glen Park resident Dan Goldes […]

Glen Park Resident Johanna Pinther and the First March for Suffrage in the United States

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March is Women’s History Month and the Glen Park News is pleased to reprint this piece of Glen Park women’s history from the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project newsletter by founder and director Evelyn Rose. Our jaws dropped upon making the discovery. Johanna Pinther, a resident of Glen Park over a century ago, is featured in an image […]

GLEN PARK REAL ESTATE–February recap

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Here we are, knocking on the door of springtime with plenty of rain behind us. Another year without drought is here and we can look forward to some super blooms. Along with that we are starting to see the blossoming of inventory and the many buyers out there are hopeful that this influx continues. In […]

Arbor Day Fair Saturday! DPW Open House in April

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 We have our annual “Arbor Day Fair” happening on Saturday, March 9th from 9am-1pm.  We’ll have fun activities for the whole family. Although this is happening in District 5 at New Tradition Elementary School at 2050 Hayes St., it is a city-wide event open for everyone. Also, we have our annual “Open House” at Public […]

Our Local Connections with African American History

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For Black History Month, we’re reprinting a story from the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project by founder and director Evelyn Rose. The revisionist, understated, or forgotten aspects of Black history makes research in this area particularly challenging. In research to date, the rediscovered histories of Glen Park and its neighboring districts in the American period […]