Much ink has been spilled on the history of Chinatown and Grant Avenue, billed as San Francisco’s oldest street, which runs north to south starting at Market Street and ending at Francisco ...

Anti-development groups, which have largely flown under San Francisco’s political radar, have won elections, secured appointments, and halted high-density developments.

Man versus nature versus man: 50 or so years of the Albany Bulb “It has been—often all at once—a landfill, an encampment, a community, an art installation, a museum, a music venue, a ...

Danielle Steel’s hedge (in vulgar parlance, Danielle Steel’s bush) is as San Francisco as sourdough bread, International Orange, and Lombard Street. Derided by urban design critic John King as ...

Over the same period, SF’s rental vacancy rate went from 5.31 percent—already low compared to 8.17 nationally, but about the same as the 5.86 rate in California—to a minuscule 3.2 percent.

Salesforce Tower “The tower is not beautiful but it is impossible to ignore,” claimed The New York Times of the Salesforce Tower.While its hopelessly vertical silhouette has been likened to a ...

No San Francisco mural map would be complete without mentioning the Coit Tower murals, some of the city's originals. The murals were created under the Great Depression's Public Works of Art project.

Christopher Columbus never stepped foot on what is today the United States. He never visited California or sailed the Pacific Ocean. And he didn’t discover America in 1492.But that hasn’t ...

The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department announced last week that, in honor of Coit Tower’s 85th birthday, the Art Deco concrete tower of note has been singled out as a “nationally ...

High atop the second highest hill in the city, with a curvy street perfect for skating, skaters took to the streets to protest racism.

But of course, these once-humble homes are entirely a reality, and as expected their walls contain quite a bit of history, including: The “Painted Ladies” nickname is surprisingly recent.

Update: A spokesperson representing the investors/owners of 100 Van Ness replied with the following statement care of Kevin Menninger, S.E., principal-incCharge at Nishkian Menninger: . The ...