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To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Long ago, when I was 12-years old, I delivered the San Francisco Call Bulletin to Bobo Olson, the world middleweight boxing champion. After school, I’d bicycle along 34th Avenue between Judah […]

California Assemblyman David Chiu and Supervisor John Avalos will host a community forum this month. From Chiu’s newsletter: Upcoming District 11 Neighborhood Forum I look forward to teaming up with Supervisor John Avalos for a District 11 community forum. Please join us to talk about the work I have been doing in Sacramento and how […]

Christophe Pouchard  is a native of Binic, France but now lives in Glen Park. Here he’s catching up on his reading while visiting his hometown. Where else does the Glen Park News turn up?

Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting Date: October 22nd, 2015           Time: 7:00 PM Place: St. John School** Agenda Capt. McFadden from Ingleside Station will review current issues. Supervisor Scott Weiner will address recent area developments. Karen Mauney-Brodeck will report on progress on the Glen Park Recreation Center reconstruction. Election forum on Proposition F, the “Short Term Residential […]

Friday, October 2nd, 2015 07:00pm 100 Blk Monterey Battery Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 6:12am 30th/San Jose Att. Homicide w/gun A night on the town for two men almost turned deadly as they returned home. The two had just parked when an unknown assailant walked up to the truck holding a hand gun demanding their money. […]

Halloween Greetings to All. The time has come to consider pumpkins. To that end, the Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory would like to invite you to a free Pumpkin Carving at the Sunnyside Conservatory, on October 25th, from 2:00 PM till 5:00 PM.   Come and  create a master piece!  Please bring your own pumpkin(s).   We will provide […]

Changes to the 14R bus line, including a dedicated transit lane along Mission Street, will be publicly vetted Friday, October 16, at 10 a.m. in City Hall, room 416. A stoplight at Randall and Mission streets had also been proposed, but that element needs further study and will not be implemented immediately, said Matt Brill, […]

BART riders may have noticed the barrier being installed around thedown escalator at Glen Park Station. According to BART’s website, therepair is expected to take until January:http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2015/news20151007The Glen Park Association’s Transportation Committee has been in touchwith BART’s communications department. They tell us that the escalator” experienced a significant mechanical failure in the drive system.This requires […]

Monday, September 21st, 2015 09:00am 1100 Blk Bosworth Stolen Vehicle Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 09:00am Chenery/Congo [sic] Stolen Vehicle 12:55pm 600 Blk Arlington Recovered Vehicle 02:05pm Chenery/Brompton Stolen and Recovered Vehicle Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 12:55pm 200 Blk Roanoke Recovered Vehicle Thursday, September 24th, 2015 07:41am 200 Blk Roanoke Battery 11:30am 600 Blk Chenery Theft […]

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The SFDPW hearing regarding the parklet in front of Higher Grounds crepe cafe that was to have been held September 30, 2015, was postponed. After the SF Planning Department approved the application and forwarded it to the DPW for public notice, the SFMTA reviewed the application and decided the red zone at the corner might […]

The Friends of Glen Canyon Park have intermittent help with their ongoing stewardship of the neighborhood’s 70-acre natural area. On September 14, 30 Gay for Good volunteers worked along side three Rec and Park’s Natural Areas Program gardeners, pushing back willow adjacent to Alms Road and pruning Himalayan blackberry on the last leg of the […]

Friday, September 11th, 2015 06:15am 500 Blk Arlington Burglary Saturday, September 12th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Sunday, September 13th, 2015 03:50pm Elk/Sussex Theft from Vehicle Monday, September 14th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 02:00pm Monterey/Baden Stolen Vehicle Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen […]

The Glen Park Association invites you to the Glen Park Greenway Workshop #2 When: Thursday, September 24, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Where: St. John School Gymnasium (925 Chenery St.) Parking: behind the school in their large parking lot Please enter the gym from the parking lot just off Chenery. Program: The landscape architects from […]

Manhal Jweinat, owner of Higher Grounds Coffee House has applied for a parklet in front of his business on Chenery and Diamond. Someone has contested the application, so there will be a hearing Wednesday, September 30, at 9 a.m. in City Hall, Room 400. Attend to show your support or opposition. You can also write […]

Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 7:00pm 500 Blk Chenery Vandalism Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 6:00pm 100 Blk Acadia Personation Friday, July 3rd, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Saturday, July 4th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Sunday, July 5th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Monday, July 6th, 2015 10:00pm Unit Blk […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider I didn’t know Jimmy Ryan all that well. I’d see him on the Fridays I dropped by Bird & Beckett, to catch his ensemble serving up bebop at the bookstore. On the second Friday of each month, Jimmy sat at the rear of Eric Whittington’s stage, leaning over his […]

By Janet Kessler San Francisco has several dozen coyotes living in the city, mostly in nuclear families. They’re in all of our major parks. Because most folks in San Francisco have dogs or cats, and because there are pups in some of the parks — pups would be about 4 months old now — it […]

Local photographer Anthony Powell found this fairy lair along the trail to Silver Tree in Glen Canyon Park. It’s up on the hill in the end of a fallen stump. There are two similar fairy doors in Golden Gate Park. There’s some speculation that a fairy clan has moved to San Francisco and that different families are […]

A note from Eric at Bird & Beckett… Bring letters for Paul’s landlord! And bring flowers or cookies or some such for Paul & Jennie Park! This Saturday (8/15) from 10 a.m. to noon, come by Buddies Market at the corner of Diamond & Chenery in Glen Park to let Paul and Jennie know that you’re in their corner. […]

Glen Park Greenway Community Meeting with the SFPUC   Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015   Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m. Location: St John School gym at 925 Chenery Street (enter from Chenery Street via playground) Topic: Watershed Planning for Islais Creek The Glen Park Association is pleased to host a presentation by Rosey Jencks of SFPUC who […]

A charming makeshift memorial to Cecil the Lion, found in the back of Glen Canyon below Touquoise Way on August 9, 2015.

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Fernando Aguilar took a minute or two to suit up on the former J. Eugene McAteer High School gridiron. The field, now home to the School Farm at the Academy of […]

Story and photos by Stephen Labovsky   Fish were trending in Glen Park Village this week. Fish? Yep, fish. On Monday, Critter Fritters had a new window display, and the theme was fish! Tony, Fritter’s manager, told me that one of his customers volunteered to design this whimsical window, called “Life In A Fish Bowl.” Across […]

A Quieter Future: a free public outreach conference on Community Noise and Natural Quiet that will take place at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, August 10th, 8:30am-4pm. The conference will feature 12 different speakers​ from a variety of fields who will explain how noise negatively affects adults, children, birds & marine life, and discuss […]

Monday, June 15th, 2015 5:21pm Unit Blk Circular Recovered Vehicle 10:42pm 300 Blk Roanoke Warrant Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 3:00pm 300 Blk Joost Stolen Vehicle Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 12:31pm 200 Blk Whitney Recovered Vehicle Thursday, June 18th, 2015 9:26pm Bosworth/Elk Traffic Collision Friday, June 19th, 2015 10:30am 2800 Blk Diamond Recovered Vehicle 12:26pm 200 […]

A tree lost a limb that feel on a car on the 2500 block of Diamond Street on Aug. 2, 2015. While the car was damaged, no people were injured. Photo by Joseph Ong.

Story and photos by Murray Schneider On the Wednesday before the July 17-19 weekend —- before Volunteers for Outdoor California workers bivouacked in 35 tents by Glen Canyon’s Silver Tree Day Camp in preparation for three days of trail work —- Jenny Sotelo, Recreation and Park’s Natural Areas Program gardener, led five members of Friends of Glen […]

Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting Date: July 16, 2015           Time: 7:00 PM Place: St. John School Gymnasium Agenda Capt. McFadden from Ingleside Station will review current issues Graffiti and Vandalism: Marianne Bertuccelli from San Francisco Recreation and Park Department The Gum Tree Girls: a history on the freeway revolt, presented by Zoanne Nordstrom and Joan Siewald A Brief […]

[Note for folks in Glen Park: Rec and Park is currently working to create a trail system that would be one nearly continuous greenbelt, makin git possible to walk from Mount Tustro over Twin Peaks and through Glen Park. See Murray Schneider’s article from 2013. Thus, this is a project that’s been much anticipated by Glen Park neighbors.] […]

Drummer Jimmy Ryan passed away Wednesday morning. He had suffered a heart attack on Monday, while on a hike with his wife Rory in a wilderness area near Monterey. Rory administered CPR and kept him alive until a medical team was able to hike in to them and carry him out to a hospital, but two days later […]

Hi all, Latest report from SFMTA is that the D/B intersection should be done by end of July. The lane markings you see now are where the lanes will actually be, but probably with nicer, clearer paint. Please see the June 19 blog update regarding the feasibility (or not) of simultaneous protected left-hand turns or protected left-hand turns […]

SFDPW has news about work on the Highland Bridge. Night work starts July 19 and runs to July 26. See more details on their press release: http://sfdpw.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4926 Thanks to Mike S. for posting this on NextDoor.

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Over a month ago construction workers departed Glen Canyon’s Banana Slug Way, which runs parallel to Alms Road and which leads to Silver Tree Day Camp. In their wake, they left lengthy retaining walls and yards of mesh-wire fencing above Islias Creek. As it turns out, though, on this […]

A collision on Tuesday between a car and a truck at Bosworth and Diamond in Glen Park caused no injuries, bystanders reported. The car was being driven by a woman on her way to the library. It was going east on Bosworth. The truck was heading west on Bosworth. Exactly what caused the accident is not known. The […]

More information has come in and it appears the accident on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 24 involved a single driver, an older man. He was taken to the hospital to be checked out but paramedics told neighbors on the scene that his injuries were minor. Unclear how exactly the car ended up on its side, though it’s […]

Story and photos by Stephen Labovsky GLEN PARK VILLAGE, June 16.  It’s 6:00pm, and Glen Park Station is jammed packed with fans awaiting the start of Game Six of the NBA Championship.  Meanwhile, a block away, at Bird & Beckett, Bloomsday, the annual, marathon reading of James Joyce’s masterpiece, “Ulysses” is already in progress. Travelling between […]

In the May 28 blog summary of the GPA’s transportation committee’s first meeting with SFMTA, traffic engineer Damon Curtis had promised to look into two things: –creating simultaneous protected lefts northbound and southbound on Diamond –switching the new protected northbound left on Diamond to be southbound in the evening to accommodate rush hour traffic Neither […]

Monday, May 4th, 2015 09:06pm Fairmount/Laidley Recovered Vehicle Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 09:20am Kern/Diamond Theft from Vehicle Thursday, May 7th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Friday, May 8th, 2015 10:00am Unit Blk Rousseau Hot Prowl Burglary A citizen getting dressed in the morning […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider You can take the girl out of the country, but not the country out of the girl, or so the saying goes. Such was the case with Amelia Leake, born in 1896 along the James River in Richmond, Virginia. Through her life, her family affectionately called her Angie. As […]

The Highland Street Bridge will be closed for about six months starting today as crews repair the crumbling bridge railings, according to DPW’s web page for the project http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1821 and the marvelous College Hill Neighborhood Association Highland Bridge: Closing 6/11 for 6 months (they mean it this time … really!)

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Bird & Beckett Books and Records threw a sweet sixteen-birthday party for itself on May 22, featuring a quintet of bookstore musicians very familiar to its jazz-loving Glen Park audiences. “Back in 1999 Chuck Peterson proposed the preposterous idea that we have jazz each Friday night,” said bookstore owner […]

Members of the GPA and GPMA are continuing to meet with SFMTA in response to concerns about street construction in the neighborhood. Tuesday’s meeting with traffic engineer Damon Curtis and project planner David Greenway gives us this update: 1. In response to community concerns, there will now be a “protected/permissive light” for northbound Diamond. (That […]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 03:00pm 800 Blk Chenery Hit and Run Friday, April 24th, 2015 11:40am 200 Blk 30th Burglary Saturday, April 25th, 2015 01:14am 100 Blk Mangels Recovered Vehicle 01:14am 100 Blk Mangels Warrant Arrest Sunday, April 26th, 2015 08:00pm 700 Blk Chenery Stolen License Plate Monday, April 27th, 2015 02:15am Unit Blk Miguel […]

The GPA transportation committee has been pressing hard on SFMTA to keep the neighborhood updated on the various projects affecting us and to hold the agency accountable in terms of deadlines and promises. See Hilary Schiraldi’s April 30 post regarding the last meeting with them, and another is coming up. We’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, here’s […]

Although a couple of folks have wondered, given the big Application for Entertainment License sign in the window. Here’s the explanation, straight from Eric (oh, and feel free to write a letter on his behalf to the City once you’ve read it.) == Just back from City Hall! We’re turning 16, and getting our license to […]

The Glen Park Greenway Concept Plan – Linking the canyon to the village Come and help develop the Concept Plan for the Glen Park Greenway. We have a professional design team – all we need now is you and other neighbors, who are interested in the look and feel of our neighborhood, its footpaths, its […]

From SFMTA: Last week, our crews were able to pour half of the foundation on the northeast (formerly Citibank) corner. This week, we’re pouring the foundation on the remaining half of that corner.  Crews will also begin putting in the decorative brick band on this corner. Next week, we expect to be completing the brick […]

Karen Mauney-Brodek at RPD has shared this update on the Sussex Street steps:.   The Recreation and Park Department will proceed with rebuilding the steps at the entrance to Glen Canyon Park at the end of of Sussex Street. While RPD had expected to add this work to the contract for the other trails construction […]