SAN FRANCISCO – For those who love the Glen Park library, who find themselves popping into the Canyon Market to grab dinner, who enjoy a stroll along the Glen Park Greenway or who take their children to play at the park without worrying about a parking ticket – you have Michael Rice to thank. He […]
Meet your local police officers at CUPPA on June 10
BOBA WITH A STAR Wednesday, June 10, 2026 1:00PM – 3:00PM CUPPA, 2810 Diamond Street, Glen Park Come by, grab a boba, ask questions and connect with your local officers from the SFPD Ingleside District in a fun , relaxed setting! Here’s what attendees can look forward to: First 50 kids receive a free drink […]
Ann Kathryn Weinstein, 1930–2026
When Ann Kathryn Weinstein purchased a small home on Surrey Street in 1983, she knew this was where she wanted to live. Glen Canyon Park was nearby. The neighbors were friendly. The neighborhood included a library, grocery store, BART station and restaurants, amenities that remain today. Ann passed away peacefully at the Frank Residences on […]
Joe Schuver at Destination Bakery is laying down his rolling pin
Joe Schuver has laid down his rolling pin “and is taking a well-deserved rest.” After 25 years, the owner of Destination Bakery at 598 Chenery Street has sold his last, flaky Danish and closed the businesses. “I’m sad but I’m also happy,” said Schuver, 71. “It was time.” He has hopes that the space will […]
Buddie’s Market gets a facelift
A long-need for facelift came to Buddie’s Market at 696 Chenery Street on Saturday, December 13. A team of painters swarmed the building to give the facade a much-needed spiffing up. Paul Park, who runs Buddie’s Market, said the city permit for the work had recently come through.
New yoga studio – Soluna – opening at old site of Glen Park Cleaners on Chenery Street
A new yoga studio – Soluna – is coming to Glen Park. The studio, at 701 Chenery Street, is opening first as a popup on October 17 and then with a full slate of classes beginning November 1. The owner is Natalie Donnell, who’s been teaching yoga in Noe Valley and the Castro for several […]
La Cigale opens – Glen Park’s newest restaurant
After more than three years of work, Glen Park’s newest restaurant, La Cigale, is finally open. The space at 679 Chenery, has a prix fixe menu including tax and tips. La Cigale, which means cicada in English, features the cuisine of Occitanie, a region in southwestern France. There are 15 seats, for walk-ins only. Diners […]
La Corneta celebrates 30 years in Glen Park
More than 30 years ago, Joel Campos met a friend in a bar – and the rest is Glen Park history. “After leaving Glen Park Station, I took a moment to look at the neighborhood. Peaceful, attractive and not a taqueria in sight. It seemed the perfect place to open my new restaurant.” September, 2025, […]
Final Glen Park Night Market a big success
The fourth and final Glen Park Night Market was held on Saturday, September 20 from 4:00 – 8:00 pm. “Neighbors have told us they really loved these night markets. It’s been such a lively way to build community and boost Glen Park,” said Heather World, president of the Glen Park Association, which helped organize the […]
If you’re a fan of Viking’s Giant Subs’ food, go quick – and expect lines
If you’re a fan of Viking’s Giant Submarine, better get in line – the Glen Park eatery has been discovered by a pair of TikTok stars with more than 1.5 million followers. Matt and Omar are a San Francisco couple who have found fame with their tales of buying food in and around town, then […]
Seth Rogen & Olivia Wilde filming at Glen Park BART
Tuesday was a star-studded day at Glen Park BART when Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde spent much of the afternoon filming a new romantic comedy titled “The Invite” in the station. The film is being directed by Olivia Wilde and was written by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Cameras followed the actors as they rode […]
Movie filming in Glen Park on Tuesday, May 20
A feature film will be shooting in Glen Park on Tuesday, May 20th, the San Francisco Film Commission has informed the Glen Park News. The filming will occur at Glen Park BART between 7 am and 6 pm. During filming, no stopping signs will be posted on Bosworth between Arlington and Diamond and on Arlington […]
Destination Bakery reopens after extensive cleanup effort
Glen park’s cherished Destinations Bakery has re-opened. The popular neighborhood spot closed on March 10 after a Department of Public Health inspector found signs of a rodent infestation. Over the course of the next month and a half, proprietor Joe Schuver worked with staff, exterminators and a construction and cleanup crew to bring the entire […]
Glen Park Atelier artists’ studio to open in September
Glen Park will soon have a new place for neighbors to make and learn art. In the hills over Glen Canyon, artist David Martinez plans to open an atelier, a type of artists’ studio where pupils can work with a master artist, learning and making art together with other students. Glen Park Atelier is a […]
Bello Coffee is now making its own gelato
Coffee aficionados, there’s even more to love about Bello Coffee (2885 Diamond) at Diamond and Kern just down from the library. The long-time Glen Park coffee spot now offers two flavors of gelato. “We’re starting things off with toasted milk gelato and coffee gelato, both rich, smooth, and perfect on their own or as an […]
Destination Bakery hopes to reopen in April
After getting a notification from the San Francisco Health Department about a rodent infestation, Glen Park’s beloved Destination Bakery is in the midst of a major cleanup. The Health Department notice ordered the bakery to shut down while the problems were dealt with. Its demands were very broad and it will take time to finish […]
These little metal street tags are everywhere – flat as they are, one almost tripped up our new restaurant
Glen Park’s soon-to-be newest restaurant, La Cigale, is well on its way to completion. Until there was an unexpected glitch, as the San Francisco Standard reported on Thursday. Have you ever noticed little metal tags embedded in the sidewalk? Neither had the owners. But it turns out they’re important. As San Francisco Public Works notes […]
Don’t forget One Waan Thai by BART
Since its opening in 2016, Glen Park’s popular One Waan Thai Restaurant has become a neighborhood fixture. As owner Alex Phanupong Prasertsith, a Bangkok native, promised the Glen Park News that year, the menu has continued to expand. He has also experienced challenges familiar to other San Francisco restaurateurs as the city makes its long, […]
New Mayor Daniel Lurie drops in on Glen Park Merchants Association party
Brand new San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie made a surprise appearance at the Glen Park Merchants Association New Year’s party on Wednesday, January 22 at the Park Salon at 669 Chenery Street. Every year the party rotates among the merchants. Glen Park merchants provided the delicious food and also supplied free flowing libations. The Association […]
New French restaurant to take the place of Modern Past on Chenery
La Cigale, a new French restaurant, is quietly taking shape at 679 Chenery Street, a storefront that formerly held Modern Past. Owners Joseph Magidow and Daisy Linden plan to open by mid 2025. The restaurant will feature cuisine of Occitanie, the region spanning southwest France and the Spanish Pyrenees. La cigale means the […]
Gialina owner: Glen Park is a tiny neighborhood fierce in its restaurant loyalties!
Gialina, Glen Park’s famed pizzeria on Diamond Street, has prospered over decades, weathering economic fluctuations, changing demographics and COVID-19. Tellingly, no sign proclaims the popular restaurant’s name. According to owner Sharon Ardiana, the “Gialina” on a front window disappeared during repairs at the restaurant at 2842 Diamond Street, which opened in 2007. The Glen Park […]
Glen Park restaurateur Manhal Jweinat sees brighter days ahead
Ten years ago, Glen Park was a destination for diners. Customers in 2014 regularly queued for pizza at Gialina, packed the bar while waiting at Le P’tit Laurent and reserved weeks ahead at Chenery Park. Today, it’s a different story. Gialina has briefer waits, Le P’tit Laurent is mothballed and Chenery Park is long closed. […]
November Real Estate recap
Happy Holidays! A couple of presents have already arrived for would-be home owners. The rates are finally coming down, and the Fed has indicated that they are done with raising rates. We’ve definitely seen a little bump up in activity as the rates have gone down even though we have entered the holidays, but numbers […]
Glen Park’s outdoor restaurant spaces start to come down
Outdoor dining is going away (for the most part) in Glen Park, after the City ended easy COVID-era rules that allowed restaurants to build outdoor dining areas in parking places in front of their doors. Glen Park gained four outdoor eating spaces during the height of the COVID emergency, at Tekka House, Higher Grounds, La […]
Cup Café on Monterey has new owners, new menu items, same cozy feel
Cup Café, a popular neighborhood hangout, has new owners. Jaime Ismat and Veronica Duran took over the Glen Park eatery in early August. The cozy café in west Glen Park at 6 Monterey Blvd. serves breakfast and lunch from early morning until mid-afternoon. Locals have long appreciated the cheerful respite the cafe offers, with its […]
You’re not in a Western but those are hawks crying in the distance
Anyone who lives or spends time along Diamond and Chenery streets at Lippard could be forgiven for feeling like they’re living in a cheesy Western movie this summer because the soundtrack of city life has added a new track – the frequent, piercing and iconic screech of a bird of prey. What you’re hearing is […]
Glen Park Women Hall of Fame presentation – Aug 29, 7:00 pm
The presentation by Evelyn Rose, founder of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project, will be on Tuesday, August 29 at 7:00 pm. It’s being held at Temple Sherith Israel, 2266 California at Webster. If you can’t make it in person, you can join the San Francisco History Association to access it via Zoom. Membership info […]
Sunday gusher at Chenery & Diamond repaired in less than 24 hours
A broken water main at the corner of Chenery and Diamond Streets sent a gusher of water two feet up into the air Sunday afternoon around 2:00 PM, flooding the street and sending water down Diamond. The water pressure was so strong that parts of the asphalt and concrete at the edges of the hole […]
Come hear about a drag show in Glen Park 50 years ago – June 7 at the library
For a brief period in the mid-1960s, when the city’s LGBTQ community was beginning to find its voice, “San Francisco’s Finest Female Impersonators” performed at the Casa Blanca Lounge in Glen Park. Evelyn Rose of the Glen Park Neighborhoods History Project shares how the story of the Casa Blanca not only reveals the rich Italian […]
Thieves saw down three light poles in Glen Canyon Park
Thieves cut down three metal light posts at the entrance to Glen Canyon Park Thursday, May 25. An alert park-goer called 311 that evening to report the vandalism and San Francisco Recreation and Parks responded. “Custodial staff cleaned up the fallen poles and put caution tape around the area and power was turned off. Electricians […]
Glen Park icon Joan Seiwald: Long-time SFUSD staffer, park-saver and A’s fan
Joan Seiwald, 91, one of a trio of young Glen Park mothers who in 1965 kept San Francisco from building a freeway through Glen Canyon Park, passed away on Thursday, May 11. Seiwald and her husband Robert bought their home on Burnside Avenue in 1960, just one block from the park. As today, parents spent […]
Chenery will not be a Slow Street, SFMTA Board votes
Chenery Street will not become a slow street again, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board voted Tuesday, May 16. After several hours of many heartfelt statements both for and against a reinstatement by Glen Park residents, the board said it felt there was too little consensus to vote to once again make Chenery a […]
Joan Seiwald, one of the women who kept Glen Canyon from becoming a freeway, has passed away
Joan Seiwald, 91, one of a trio of young Glen Park mothers who in 1965 kept San Francisco from building a freeway through Glen Canyon Park, passed away on Thursday, May 11. Seiwald and her husband Robert bought their home on Burnside Avenue in 1960, just one block from the park. As today, parents spent […]
Glen Park Welcomes Spring (and the Sun!) with a Block Party
Saturday, May 6th started with a torrent of rain, but by 10:00 am the sun was shining, allowing for residents of Glen Park to gather for a spring block party. About 100 people from across the neighborhood circulated through for snacks, chalk, bubbles and conversation to welcome warmer and drier weather. Some had planned the […]
Debra Lynn Hord, long time neighborhood figure, dead of injuries sustained in robbery
Debra Lynn Hord, a sometimes-homeless woman known to many in Glen Park for her kindness and helpfulness, died of an apparent head injury sustained after she was robbed outside the Glen Park Market at Diamond and Bosworth on March 2, 2023. It was at about 6:30 am, said Jung Ho Lee, one of the owners […]
Armed robbery on Chenery appears to have been teens who knew each other
Two teens were robbed at gunpoint at the corner of Chenery Street and Chilton Avenue at 2:39 in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 26. Video from a nearby house shows the two teens, a boy and a girl, walking backwards as two other teens, both apparently boys, walk towards them. One of them has a […]
Blowtorch attack on Wells Fargo ATM at Canyon Market
Glen Park residents who bank at Wells Fargo have been frustrated over the past few weeks when they stopped by the ATM in front of Canyon Market to get cash or deposit a check. Multiple times in the past month it’s been unaccountably out of service. Or maybe not so unaccountably. It turns out, people […]
Downed trees in Glen Canyon block popular walking path
The heavy winds of Tuesday’s storm downed multiple trees in Glen Canyon Park. While Glen Canyon was not on San Francisco Rec & Park’s closure list, the southern creek-side trail that goes between the Rec Center and the Silver Tree Day Camp/Glenridge Coop building was closed to walkers on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 due to […]
Popular Viking Giant Subs to close, owners retiring
After 18 years in Glen Park, the owners of Viking’s Giant Submarines at 2906 Diamond St. are taking a well-deserved retirement. Since 1995, Betty & Steven Chang have been working from early morning to after 5:00 pm providing the neighborhood with an eclectic assortment of sandwiches and lunch items. Those included the submarine sandwiches, hamburgers, […]
On Monday Perch is celebrating its 15th anniversary with drawings for $150 gift cards
Perch is celebrating 15 years in business this month. Since first opening in 2008, owner Zoel Fages has been offering a unique, curated selection of gifts and just-for-fun items on Chenery Street. To celebrate a decade and a half as part of the fabric of Glen Park, Fages is holding a drawing. When customers make a […]
Eucalyptus falls across Bosworth just at 280 South entrance – with Thursday update
A massive eucalyptus tree that grew in the street median along Bosworth fell over during high winds Wednesday, Jan. 4 at around 5:30 pm. The tree fell across the westbound lanes of Bosworth, snarling traffic and blocking the roadway. No one appeared to have been injured when the large tree came down, though a car […]
After 22 years, Sassy Salon owner is moving to Noe Valley
Genevieve Potter has loved her time in Glen Park, but after a 22-year run as the owner of The Sassy Salon her time here coming to an end – but she’s only moving her business a hill away. “I’m moving to a space that’s just a hop, skip and a jump away, over in Noe […]
Canyon Market is being sold to Gus’s Community Market
Canyon Market is getting new – though still local – owners. After 16 years, owners Richard and Janet Tarvlov are ready for a break. So they have sold the bustling business to Gus’s Community Market, owned by the Vardakastanis family. The sale will be completed on Dec. 21 and the Vardakastanis’ will take over. They […]
SF Chronicle on Glen Park’s Birdseed Lady problem
One S.F. neighborhood’s severe rat problem may have a single culprit: ‘Birdseed Lady’ San Francisco Chronicle Nora Mishanec Oct. 12, 2022 It started with piles of bird seed, small mountains that would arrive on the asphalt at San Francisco’s Glen Park BART station and on nearby city sidewalks. Next, neighbors said, came swarms of rats […]
Update: Glen Park Cleaners could still come back, Tommy Baik still pondering
Editors’ note: Baik reached out to the Glen Park News to clarify that he’s still considering his options when it comes to reopening his business. The story has been updated to reflect this. The Glen Park News regrets the error Four months after a fire swept through building at the corner of Chenery and Diamond, […]
Tommy Baik is still pondering whether to reopen Glen Park Cleaners
Editors’ note: Baik reached out to the Glen Park News to clarify that he’s still considering his options when it comes to reopening his business. The story has been updated to reflect this. The Glen Park News regrets the error Four months after a fire swept through building at the corner of Chenery and Diamond, […]
Homeless man acquitted in murder of Glen Park’s Leo Hainzl in 2020
A jury in San Francisco on Friday acquitted Peter Rocha, 55, in the death of Glen Park’s Loe Hainzl, 94, who had been walking his dog in Glen Canyon when he was attacked by the morning of Memorial Day in 2020, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Initially, witnesses said that Rocha, who was sitting on […]
Go Fund Me campaign launched for family burned out of apartment over Glen Park Cleaners
Neighbors have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help the family that lost their home when Glen Park Cleaners at Chenery and Diamond was destroyed in a fire on June 4. While there were only minor injuries in the fire, the cleaners was gutted and the upstairs apartment rendered uninhabitable. Shannon Weber and her three children […]
Glen Park reporter and Canyon stalwart Murray Schneider dies at 79
By Elizabeth Weise and Bonnee Waldstein If you’ve wandered through Glen Canyon or read about the neighborhood in the Glen Park News, you have been the beneficiary of Murray Schneider’s decades of work here. He helped pull invasive weeds in Glen Canyon, dug for planting and lopped ivy at regular Greenway work parties, wrote copiously […]
Canyon Market celebrates 15th anniversary with a party for all
A bevy of San Francisco politicians was on hand December 11, 2021 to celebrate the birthday of the Canyon Market, which held its soft opening on fifteen years before. Mayor London Breed, State Senator Scott Wiener, District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman all attended the festivities on Dec. 11 to celebrate. Bevan Dufty, District 8 Supervisor […]