Hate the grim stretch of Bosworth between Lyell and BART? Add your thoughts on potential mural ideas by filling out this survey. Neighborhood beautification dynamo Sophie Constantinou is working on securing a Community Challenge grant to create a mural on the concrete wall above Lyell and beneath the southbound freeway overpass on Bosworth.
This would be third mural Constantinou has wrangled for the Bernal Cut: in She secured $132,000 of funding for the mural beneath the Richland Bridge, which was completed in 2020, as well as $50,000 for the mural at the end of Cuvier Street, completed in 2022. Both grants were Community Challenge grants that also paid for things like signage along the Arlington Path.
Constantinou began gathering feedback for this latest splash of color last Saturday, when she and the Glen Park Association celebrated the work that has transformed the western side of the Bernal Cut into a green thoroughfare. Volunteers and neighbors kicked back with barbecue, pie and live music, chatting with each other and with hikers on the Crosstown Trail who were curious about this newly added section of the Trail.
The party continues on the east side of the Cut on October 12 from 1 to 5 p.m., at the College Avenue Triangle. Both events were sponsored by the Civic Joy Fund. (Join the monthly Bernal Cut plantings and otherwise stay tuned by subscribing to the BernalCut.org newsletter.)
