Search Results for: Glen Park Community Plan

By  Murray Schneider The PG&E substation at Rousseau at Bosworth Streets is undergoing a facelift. Originally constructed in 1935 and until recently situated adjacent to the defunct Ray Oil Burner Company at 1301 San Jose Avenue, Substation M is undergoing a significant upgrade. The safety and reliability makeover, which begins in mid-April and is scheduled […]

Quarterly Meeting October 27, 2016 – 7:00 pm San Francisco Police Academy Community Room 350 Amber Drive Agenda Glen Canyon Park Recreation Center Construction Progress report from Park and Recreation staff on the construction. Pedestrian Safety Improvement Plans at Diamond Heights Boulevard/Sussex Street/Elk Street Status update from Kimberly Leung and Casey Hildreth of the SFMTA. […]

NOTES FROM THE GLEN PARK ASSOCIATION MEETING January 21, 2016 By Bonnee Waldstein ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS: The first quarterly meeting of the Glen Park Association (GPA) kicked off with the election of officers. It was a mix of incumbents and new officers, elected unanimously: President – Michael Rice (12th year); Vice President – Scott […]

Story by Murray Schneider One of Glen Park’s own, Dennis Nix, 60, died on November 22, a victim of a suspected hit-and-run motor vehicle incident. The collision occurred around 2:30 a.m., only blocks from Nix’s Mangels Avenue home. Traveling on his scooter near Monterey Boulevard and the BART station, Nix, who had earlier left a […]

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 […]

New Mid-Market food emporium to be 1st in high end SF chain By J.K. Dineen Photo: Liz Hafalia, The Chronicle IMAGE 1 OF 7 Pedestrians walk outside the new locally owned grocery store named Market on Market on the first floor of the Twitter building in San Francisco, Calif., on Thursday, October 23, 2014. Under construction Market on […]

by Murray Schneider Emily Bratt still speaks with a trace of an accent from Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she was born 92 years ago. She has lived in Glen Park since 1950, first settling on Bemis Street when it was nothing more than a dirt path. That move came after she served in the U.S. Army […]

Diamond Heights Health and Safety Fair, Saturday, Sept. 13 at SF Police Academy  SF Police Academy, 350 Amber Drive, at Duncan Street The Diamond Heights community is providing its 4th Health and Safety Fair. The Fair is free and is open to the public. Smokey the Bear is our featured guest! Live Music • Babar […]

By Murray Schneider With an Elk Street destination in mind, two Glen Park Garden Club volunteers marched across a portion of a Glen Canyon hillside on a recent Friday, armed for battle. They were there to weed. This plan, to leave not a stalk of mustard or radish left standing. “The Elk Street hill was […]

  Dear members of the Glen Park Association, The SFMTA invites you to attend a District 8 Open House to learn about Transportation 2030 – the proposed infrastructure investment program proposed for the November 2014 ballot. Through three ballot measures and two funding sources, Transportation 2030 will provide $1.5 billion to complete hundreds of transportation […]

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency, Supervisor Scott Wiener, the College Hill Neighborhood Association and the Glen Park Association invite you to an upcoming community meeting on Monday, February 3 to discuss proposed safety improvements for San Jose Avenue between Monterey Boulevard and Randall Street. The City, after many years of working with Caltrans and other […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider  After taking off two weeks for Christmas and the New Year, nine members of Friends of Glen Canyon Park resumed volunteering on January 8. They were working along a trail high on the canyon wall that leads to Turquoise Way. Working under the supervision of Dylan Hayes, a Recreation […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Jesse James had a really sore toe! Tori Jacobs, an Ecology Center of San Francisco co-founder and volunteer, sat at Higher Grounds on a recent December afternoon. She nursed a Chenery Street latte and explained. “Jesse picked up a stone in August and it lodged in the crevice of […]

Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year. The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page http://sfrecpark.org/project/glen-canyon-park-2012-bond/. As […]

Hi Everyone – Thanks so much to those of you who were able to attend the community meetings we held to discuss the renovation of the Glen Canyon Park recreation center on June 13th and July 13th of this year.  The information and feedback from those meetings is available on the Glen Canyon 2012 Bond Project Page. As […]

Stories and photos Murray Schneider Richard Linder came face-to-face with a cement wall, which he didn’t cotton to, so he transformed it into a fantastical alchemy of glass, marble, copper and clay. You can see the results with your own eyes on the first block of Miguel Street, where you’ll find his ceramic relief sculpture, […]

What would it be like to walk from Portola Drive to Elk Street, using only Glen Canyon Park trails? We’re about to find out – this month the Department of Recreation and Park rolls out its “Creeks to Peaks” Trails Project, which means, among other things, pedestrians will eventually be able to avoid O’Shaughnessy Boulevard […]

By Murray Schneider On July 13, District 7 Supervisor Norman Yee put aside his legislative pen and picked up a pair work gloves and assisted 20 Sunnyside volunteers collecting litter and pulling weeds along Monterey Boulevard’s thirteen street medians. “The idea is to let my interns experience first hand a successful City and neighborhood project,” […]

By Murray Schneider On June 8th, Dalere’s Beauty Salon celebrated its 45th year in Glen Park. A valued neighborhood merchant, Glory Dalere is retired now, but her business continues under the experienced eye of her daughter, Marian. Born in 1935, Glory Dalere emigrated from the Philippines to San Francisco in 1956. “My idea was to […]

Hi Everyone! As many of you may know, thanks to the community planning process in 2010-2011 which identified the needs for renovation and improvement of the facilities at Glen Canyon Park, not only is the playground and tennis court renovation in construction now, the Recreation Center Building Renovation was funded by voters in the 2012 […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Glen Park now has its own farm atop one of the highest hills in San Francisco. The one-quarter acre green space is perched on the cusp of Glen Canyon and bookended by Twin Peaks and Mount Davidson.  The farm is tucked away on the grounds of the former J. […]

By Murray Schneider After 28 years working as a horticulturist for San Francisco’s Recreation and Park Department, Gloria Koch simply couldn’t walk away from work she loved. So the 20-year Diamond Street resident, after retiring six months ago, began volunteering with Friends of Glen Canyon Park. Gloria Koch ready for a day volunteering along Glen […]

By Murray Schneider If San Franciscans aren’t convinced by this time that the renovated Sunnyside Conservatory is a magical venue for listening to chamber music, it wouldn’t have taken much to convince them on March 17. The Temescal String Quartet had no trouble persuading a capacity-filled Conservatory audience of music aficionados this was the case […]

By Murray Schneider On February 16 over 20 neighborhood residents stood at the corner of Bosworth and Congo Streets and applauded the Bosworth Gardens, the creation of Surrey Street’s John Priola. For seven months, John Priola, 52, has been beautifying street medians with drought tolerant plants along Glen Park’s busy thoroughfare. “Thank you,” said Priola, […]

The hearing on the Rec Center appeal is on Wednesday, Nov. 14. Whether you think the Rec Center and playground shouldn’t be rebuilt and the project stopped or whether you want the multi-year process to come to a close, Wednesday is your chance to be heard. A neighbor sent this to the various Glen Park […]

[Sorry for the previous headline, I’d thought Mr. Labovsky was a member of the SF Forest Alliance group. He is not.] ======== Dear Scott, I spoke with Joe in your office yesterday, but wanted to follow up with this email to fill in some blanks. I am writing on behalf of Anastasia Glikshtern, the woman who […]

UPDATE Oct. 19-2012 No response from Anastasia Glikshtern, who filed the appeal that’s stopped the park renovation to email or requests for interviews on bulletin boards she frequents. No comment from the San Francisco Forest Alliance about their position on this. Lots of discussion on neighborhood list servs. Two comments that seem to sum up […]

An email by Sup. Scott Weiner about notices that have been circulating in the neighborhood of late. ======================== In the past week, I’ve received a number of emails from constituents concerned about tree removal in Glen Canyon in connection with the upcoming project to upgrade and make changes to recreational facilities in the area of […]

By Murray Schneider The 36-Teresita crawled along Myra Way, sandwiched between cars parked on both sides of the street in front of Miraloma School. The bus squeezed up Myra, eventually idling by the entrance to Mt. Davidson’s one-mile trail loop at Lansdale Avenue and Dalewood Way. Next to the stopped bus, naturalist Jake Sigg, 85, […]

Glen Park Association   Quarterly Meeting   July 19, 2012   Glen Park Recreation Center – 700 pm   AGENDA   700 PM Call to Order Committee / Treasurer Reports 715 PM Glen Park Recreation Center Improvement Plan – update by Recreation and Park Department Proposed Glen Park Association resolution to endorse the 2012 Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond for the November […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider June 2, 2012 One year to the day that Lt. Vincent Perez and Firefighter/Paramedic Anthony Valerio lost their lives combating a Diamond Heights house fire, an estimated throng of nearly 300 family, friends, neighbors, firefighters and police officers spilled from Station 26 on Digby Street to observe a moment […]

March 2012 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:               My New Legislative Aide: Andres Power I want to extend a warm welcome to my new legislative aide, Andres Power. Andres is replacing Gillian Gillett, who has moved on to the Mayor’s Office. […]

Thank you so much to those of you who responded to the survey about the Glen Park Festival. We’ve received many warm fuzzies and lots of helpful feedback, and we appreciate so many of you taking the time to respond. We’ve received 236 responses so far, 229 of whom feel positively or very positively about […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Final word arrived Wednesday that the Cheese Boutique, a part of Glen Park for 19 years, will not close. Instead it will move next door, to 660 Chenery, into the space […]

By Murray Schneider Later this year Diamond Heights resident, Richard Craib, steps down as president of the 130-member Friends of Glen Canyon Park, a position he has held for 15 years. Craib, 71, a native San Franciscan, was raised in the Sunset District and a 1958 graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School. He has lived […]

By Murray Schneider On January 29th, Jimmy Ryan and his Balboa Be Bop Band performed an encore to their earlier May 19, 2011 gig in the Richmond District’s Balboa Theater. Ryan, 72, and his Generation X jazz band mates warmed up the nearly capacity-filled theater with a rendition of Horace Silver’s “Blowin’ the Blues Away,” […]

On Feb. 1, the  Capital Committee of the Recreation & Park Commission voted to move approval of the Twin Peaks Trail concept plan to the consent calendar of the full Commission meeting to be held on February 16 at 10am at City Hall in Room 416.  This is great news, not just for Twin Peaks, […]

By Murray Schneider The Canyon Market turned five years old on November 21st, so owners Janet and Richard Tarlov threw a birthday party for their village grocery on December 10th. “We wanted to show our appreciation to the community,” said Janet Tarlov, sitting in her postage-sized office, which she shares with her bookkeeper. In the […]

By Bonnee Waldstein Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The new playground in Glen Canyon Park, slated for completion in winter 2013-14, will feature the newest, most up-to-date play structures for Glen Park’s youngsters to run around and frolic in. Yet, the burning issue in the new design couldn’t be more low-tech:  Sand or no sand?  Most […]

October 2011 Newsletter Office Phone: 415-554-6968 Email:  scott.wiener@sfgov.org Website:  www.scottwiener.com For more regular updates, follow me on Facebook and Twitter:                  My Policy Work   Dogwalker Legislation This week, I introduced legislation to regulate and create a permitting system for commercial dogwalkers who use city property, including parks. The legislation would require commercial dogwalkers […]

By Bonnee Waldstein San Francisco Beautiful is an organization in its 64th year of working “to assure that the city retains and enhances its unique and memorable sense of place, balance and diversity as a beautiful, livable, green and vibrant urban center.” This year, in a gala masquerade soiree at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco Beautiful […]

Successful Fund Raising for the Fallen Firemen After the June 3 Berkeley Way fire that took the lives for Lt. Vincent Perez and Fireman Anthony Valerio of Station 26 in Diamond Heights, the Glen Park Association board of directors announced a $500 matching plan for donations to funds set up at the San Francisco Fire […]