Traffic in Glen Park was snarled this morning due to an oil spill on Elk Street between Bosworth and Sussex Streets. A Recology truck traveling uphill from Bosworth dropped a load of hydraulic fluid as it made its way up Elk Street. The hydraulic fluid is needed to operate the lifts that dump trash from […]
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Next Greenway work party, Saturday, December 7
Hello Friends and Supporters of the Glen Park Greenway. Our next work party will be on Saturday December 7! Please put in in your calendar. I hope that you’ll be able to join us. Please email me to tell me if you will be there: greenway@glenparkassociation.org. We’ll start at 9:00 – there’ll be coffee waiting […]
Useful emergency preparedness brochures
Resilient Diamond Heights (RDH) has developed five brochures to train its volunteers and the public on how households can prepare for a wide variety of emergencies. This was undertaken when we found that very little of information scattered over the Internet is in a format that is easily understood. Some is written for the […]
Twin Peaks Figure 8 redesign promenade updates
Here are a few updates regarding the Twin Peaks Figure 8 Redesign / Promenade Project: Rec and Park, in partnership with SFMTA, is supporting the SF Police Department to move the concrete barriers between the two peaks with the goal of reducing the incidence of auto break-in’s. The barriers were moved on Monday, November […]
Notes on the Fall Glen Park Association Meeting
Here’s a summary of what you saw and heard, or missed, at the Glen Park Rec Center on October 17, 2019. Halloween Street Closure: Ingleside Station’s Tom Hauscarriague presented the plan for closure of part of Chenery Street on Halloween. Read about it in this separate post: https://www.glenparkassociation.org/get-ready-for-chenery-street-closure-on-halloween/ Fairmount Plaza: Word had recently gotten […]
“Warning” fire in Glen Canyon Park
This morning, close to 10:00 AM, amidst the gusty winds plaguing much of northern California with destructive fires and evacuations, a small fire was burning in Glen Canyon Park. Passersby noticed flames coming from a fire pit behind Glenridge Nursery School. It was a minor blaze that they were able to extinguish themselves by piling […]
Trucks on the tracks (a BART service reminder)
Since February of this year, BART has been single-tracking its trains on some Sundays. That means trains need to take turns running in each direction on only one track between the Embarcadero and 24th Street Mission stations. This is to allow time for work in the tunnels that will ensure a reliable power supply by […]
City Agency Hearings
Faithful readers: CAH has been incomplete the last few weeks and is again today because I’ve started working full time and cannot juggle in my volunteer responsibilities yet. I have high hopes I’ll eventually figure it all out, but for now you should know that it may not come, and when it does come, it […]
Tennis Court Reservation System Expands Citywide
The tennis courts at Glen Canyon Park are part of an increasing citywide online reservation system. SF Rec and Park has posted details: Tennis, anyone? We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added 12 tennis complexes to our pilot tennis court online reservation system for tennis and pickleball play. The expansion allows people to reserve more […]
Oct 17 GPA Quarterly Meeting
Glen Park Association Fall Quarterly Meeting October 19, 2019, 7pm Glen Park Recreation Center, Elk at Chenery San Francisco AGENDA 7pm Call to order Assemblymember David Chiu legislative updates Fairmount Plaza, open space at the foot of Everson: Brief introduction to Fairmount Plaza by Evelyn Rose, neighborhood historian Nathan Tinclair, deputy director of partnerships at the […]
Worth a trek to Noe Valley
What does this image have in common with local SF government? Senator Scott Wiener and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will be presenting a legislative update — and pumpkin carving (at no taxpayer expense)! Learn about the 2019 California legislative agenda, ask questions and share your 2020 priorities. October 19, 2019, 1 – 4 pm […]
New (Old) Park at Fairmo(u)nt
The scraggly yellowed bluff where Everson Street dead ends will soon become a scenic overlook with tree-framed views of the San Francisco Bay, thanks to an anonymous donation of almost $100,000* to the Recreation and Parks Department to restore the small neighborhood open space. “We anticipate completing the work this winter,” said Nathan Tinclair, deputy […]
Candidates for District Attorney forum: Save the date
The DHCA is delighted that all four candidates running for District Attorney on Nov. 5 will present at a community meeting on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2 – 4 pm at St. Aidan’s Church. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman will give an update on neighborhood issues. The DA candidates are Chesa Boudin, Leif Dautch, Suzy Loftus and Nancy Tung.
We’re swimming in change in San Francisco
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
Update: Glen Park Hardware store broken into
From an early morning walker: “Looks like someone smashed the front window of Glen Park Hardware. Their key display was strewn about on the sidewalk. There were 4 police cars there at 6:15 am.” When I arrived at 7:00 am, the fire department had covered the window. A police officer was parked in front of […]
Ode to Glen Park BART station
(Editor’s note: The Glen Park Association was instrumental in advocating for the station to get California state landmark status. Read on.) Rare is the weary commuter in awe of a BART station. Powell is drab and dirty. Civic Center a dark and gray mess. And end stops, like Pittsburg Bay Point or Concord, are, at […]
Mark your calendar for a Deb Lunsford Benefit! Destination Bakery’s goodwill ambassador!
Bird & Beckett, 653 Chenery Street, SF July 26, 2019 – 5:30-8:00pm If you can’t make it in person you can donate online! Go to https://www.tinyurl.com/helpfordeb All proceeds go to Deb! –Glen Park Neighborhood Icon –Weekday Mornings Counter Gal at Destination Bakery, at the corner of Chenery & Castro –Friend and co-conspirator with all small […]
Come hear the latest! Glen Park Association quarterly meeting
Glen Park Association Summer Meeting Thursday, July 25, 7pm Glen Park Recreation Center, Elk at Chenery Agenda 7:00: Call to Order Speakers Supervisor Mandelman Kern Alley – SFMTA, SFPW Autonomous vehicles – SFMTA, SFCTA, Cruise (GM) 8:45: Adjournment
City Agency Hearings on Vacation
Your faithful correspondent is out of town this week and can’t look at all the agendas. Instead, I’ll forward this from SFMTA: As you may be aware, the SFMTA Board of Directors is preparing a search for a new Director of Transportation to lead the SFMTA. Given the importance of transportation in SF, our […]
Wireless Facility at BART
Public Works has approved an AT&T application for a wireless facility at the BART station. See this Diamond_wireless document to see the description, some pictures, and how (if) you want to appeal to the Board of Appeals. The appeal process is quite specific, so if you want to be successful, be sure you read the […]
Friday Farmers Market and Bazaar in UN Plaza
(To navigate full website, click here.) SF CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, UN PLAZA & FULTON STREET Friday Farmers Market & Bazaar in UN Plaza Join us at the Friday Farmers Market & Bazaar – A NEW market day is launching in UN Plaza: every Friday, starting June 7th, from 7am to 4pm, UN Plaza will feature […]
Castro Street gets all torn up (but it’s a good thing)
It’s hard to believe so much heavy equipment and so many earth movers — both mechanical and human — were able to fit on the short block of Castro Street off Chenery. Last Wednesday, May 29, a logistical marvel was happening as Castro Street was undergoing the equivalent of major surgery. The old sewer pipes, […]
Glen Park Greenway is a link in SF Crosstown Trail
A new route connecting San Francisco’s open spaces, urban trails, and neighborhood greenways will launch this weekend, after a years-long collaborative effort. The San Francisco Crosstown Trail (SFCT) stretches southeast across the city, from the edge of the Pacific Ocean at Lands End to the edge of the San Francisco Bay in the Candlestick Point State Recreation […]
Sunnyside’s Detroit Street steps got spruced up on June 8
The Detroit Street steps in Sunnyside are getting a spruce up and local residents can take part on June 8, when Sunnyside volunteers are scheduling a “Cleanup and Celebration Day.” During the event, neighbors will have an opportunity to work alongside DPW’s Green and Clean Team, weeding the upper and lower steps. It’s the start […]
Public Land and Private Profit
Fenced off and closed to the public earlier this year, the re-graded Kern Street parking lot behind Pebbles Café on Diamond Street includes about 1,700-square feet of city land, giving the family that controls the lot 27 percent more space to charge tenants for parking. That changed Tuesday in response to three months of inquires […]
San Francisco and Glen Park under the microscope
Recently, a spate of findings and ratings has been released by the San Francisco Controller’s Office and the Trust for Public Land, measuring the performance of city departments and quality of life issues. SF Controller’s Office 2019 City Survey Report This month, the Controller’s Office came out with its biennial (2019) City Survey Report […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Who Knew? Glen Park Was Once Redlined
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. During the 1930s, a New Deal agency called the Home Owners Loan Corporation asked mortgage lenders, developers and real estate appraisers to draw up maps assessing the risk of lending money […]
Dogs of Glen Park: Meet Bruce Bochy
San Francisco Giants Bruce Bochy is taking victory laps around National League ball parks as he finishes a storied major league career as a big-league catcher and manager. There’s another Bruce Bochy, the Chenery Street Bochy, and he’s caught a few pitches himself. The Glen Park Bochy is in mid-career, takes his own laps and […]
Call to volunteer: Rec and Park Trail Corps!
Calling all trail fans! Do you love hiking trails in San Francisco? Want to be part of the team that builds and maintains your favorite trails in the city? The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s Urban Trails Program invites you to join us in a kick-off volunteer work party, where you will gain valuable […]
Glen Park Association spring meeting wrap-up
The quarterly meeting took place in the Recreation Center on April 25. Update on crime and other matters in Glen Park Captain Hart had just come from a fire safety meeting in Diamond Heights and had some helpful information to share. There are two separate access points to Glen Canyon Park. The official address is […]
Glen Park Recreation Center: All clean!
It’s the Tuesday morning after the Saturday night that the Recreation Center was vandalized by tagging (see post of Monday, May 6). The site has been almost completely cleaned up! The sculpture is still in process. The Recreation and Park Department has done a great and speedy job! UPDATE: Tamara Barak Aparton of Rec and […]
UPDATE: Developing story: Vandals *Majorly* Tag Glen Park Recreation Center
S Sunday morning there was a shocking sight at the Glen Park Recreation Center. Vandals had done extensive tagging to the facade, the outdoor sculpture and stairs. They’d spray-painted the security cameras as well. A passerby walking his dog in the park at around 11:30 Saturday night posted on Nextdoor that he saw around 15 […]
DHB Median Cleanup – May 4
Please join us this Saturday to clear and polish our median islands following the substantial winter rains. Date: Saturday, May 4 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon Location: Meet at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 101 Gold Mine Dr, Parish Hall (Lower Level) Refreshments: Morning snacks Lunch: We will serve a hot lunch afterward to say thank you RSVP to paul@wordwc.com so […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Scenes from the Glen Park Festival, April 28, 2019
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The Glen Park Association meets, greets, and signs up lots of new members! Shameless plug! Join or renew your Glen Park Association membership here. The Glen Park […]
Greenway Work Party May 4
Hello friends and supporters of the Glen Park Greenway, Our next work party will be on Saturday May 4! I hope that you’ll be able to join us. Please email me to tell me if you will be there. We’ll start at 9:00 – there’ll be coffee waiting for you Meet at the top of the […]
Seeking sustenance in Sunnyside? Here are the top 5 places to go.
Spending time in Sunnyside? Get to know this San Francisco neighborhood on the rise by visiting its most popular local eateries, from a homey brunch café to a neighborhood Thai joint. Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top places to visit in Sunnyside, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce […]
City Agency Hearings: Scooter and Bikeshare Evaluation Edition!
The BOS Rules Committee will meet Monday, April 15, 10:00 a.m., in City Hall, room 263. Agenda The BOS Land Use and Transportation Committee will meet Monday, April 15, 1:30 p.m., in City Hall, room 250. Agenda The SFMTA Board of Directors will meet Tuesday, April 16, 1 p.m., in City Hall, room 400. See […]
10th Anniversary Retrospective: Curious police presence in Glen Park
To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. There was an overwhelming police presence outside Higher Grounds late Tuesday morning. Their comportment suggested they weren’t there responding to a mob hit job, thankfully. They were standing there schmoozing among […]
SFPW scheduled road work in April
Public Works’ goal is to apply a micro-surface seal to more than 200 blocks annually throughout the City as an efficient and cost-effective way to prolong the life of our streets. Micro-surfacing preserves the asphalt pavement by protecting the surface from the effects of natural aging and the environment caused by inclement weather, excessive heat […]
Wilder Street Garden: A Growing Idea
On the short and narrow, yet very busy thoroughfare that is Wilder Street, sits a sad, empty patch of ground. It’s BART property and is fenced off to protect an auxiliary building for BART which sits on the site. For years, neighbors have bemoaned its ugliness, and several of them try to at least keep […]
Bollywood by the Bay, Saturday evening, March 23
Here are the details: DOORS OPEN AT 6:00pm SATURDAY, MARCH 23rd Bhangra & Bollywood Dance Performance by Ruth Asawa School for the Arts World Dance Program Students. Then learn Bollywood dancing taught by the students. Buffet Dinner catered by Small Potatoes, thanks to Michael Jennings. FEATURED LIVE AUCTION ITEMS: Join Supervisor Rafael Mandelman for lunch (6 of you). […]
Hailstorm hits Glen Park
At around 3:00 p.m. Sunday, my husband Michael and I set out from our house to buy a carton of milk at Canyon Market. It was pouring! We walked down Mizpah as the rain surged down along the curb. By the time we reached the bottom of the street, it had started to hail. The […]
Not a great track record for Muni buses serving Glen Park
The best and worst on-time performing Muni bus lines, ranked Last week Curbed SF examined SFMTA’s latest data dump about Muni light rail’s on-time performance—or rather, its lack thereof. By comparison, Muni bus service is far more reliable than its trains. And yet, not a single bus line in the city is even close to Muni’s stated goal […]
Wilder Community Garden
Let’s create a community garden in Glen Park! A group of neighbors is talking to BART about turning their inaccessible plot facing Wilder Street over to the community to become a peaceful and secure green space for the neighborhood to enjoy. Help make this a reality! A community garden needs community members. Join us Tuesday, […]
City Agency Hearings: SFMTA Feedback Edition!
No CAH next week, but this week we have an SFMTA Board hearing on bikeshare outreach (please email suggestions if you can’t make it), no more NRA membership for the SFPD, and a chance to smoke pot at events legally. The BOS Rules Committee will meet Monday, March 4, 10:00 a.m., in City Hall, room […]
San Francisco Scale Model is a massive hit at the library
Glen Parkers and residents from adjoining neighborhoods packed the library last Thursday to see a section (of the 120) of the San Francisco Scale Model and hear its fascinating story. At the same time, it was an exciting history lesson about our neighborhoods. The model was in storage for 77 years, until now. The presentation […]
Surrey Street’s J. John Priola show at Dog Patch gallery
J. John Priola, who lives on Surrey Street only blocks from Glen Canyon Park, was born on a five-acre farm in Colorado where his parents put up field corn for silage and grew sweet corn for more than just their Thanksgiving table. “My mother sold the corn from a stand,” Priola told the Glen Park […]