Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Parks

Finding Unused Pavement for Parks and Plazas in Lower Potrero

By Matthew Roth | May 22, 2009 | 12 Comments

Axis Cafe and Wolfe’s Lunch across 8th Street, which could be closed for a pilot pedestrian plaza. Photo: Matthew Roth When Mayor Gavin Newsom dedicated the trial pedestrian plaza at 17th Street and Castro last week, he took a significant stride toward improving his record on livable streets issues. He demonstrated engagement with local community […]

Eyes on the Street: It’s Beginning to Look Like… a Livable Street!

By Bryan Goebel | May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo by Nick Perry. New sign at the corner of 17th Street and Noe. Photos by Bryan Goebel. A portion of 17th Street in the Castro is being closed to cars at Market this weekend, marking the beginning of San Francisco’s first trial street closure. The two DPT workers installing the new signs late this […]

Cars Invade Golden Gate Park, Inner Sunset as Institutions Reopen

By Susan Vaughan | Apr 16, 2009 | 28 Comments

Photo by Bryan Goebel The Music Concourse in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is living proof of that ancient maxim dating back to the movie Field of Dreams: if you build it, they will come. In this case, however, it isn’t the spectators to a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield, but people traveling in […]

Eyes On The Street: Potrero Median Fence Is Partially Built

By Bryan Goebel | Apr 14, 2009 | 9 Comments

Photos by Matthew Roth A five-foot tall median fence that some advocates fear will actually make the area more dangerous for pedestrians is now being installed on Potrero Avenue between 25th Street and Cesar Chavez. As my colleague Matthew Roth has reported, DPW and MTA are erecting the fence to to prevent people from making […]

What’s in a Neighborhood

By Matthew Roth | Apr 6, 2009 | 10 Comments

A Sunday Stroll on International Boulevard, Flickr photo by madpai How would you define the boundaries of your neighborhood? Is it the streets that describe it? Is it the people who live in it, a cultural or demographic group that you belong to, or that excludes you? Do you think your neighbors would describe your […]

News From New York: The ABC’s of Trial Plazas and Complete Streets

By Matthew Roth | Apr 2, 2009 | 8 Comments

The trial plaza at Madison Square When we wrote about the trial pedestrian plaza on 17th Street and Market Street that DPW expects to start this May, the story generated numerous doubts about how the city would create a successful public space out of a busy street abutting a gas station. As commenter Josh said, […]

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