Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Sunday Streets

Don’t Miss the Year’s Final Sunday Streets in the Mission

By Aaron Bialick | Oct 21, 2011 | 1 Comment

The 2011 slate of Sunday Streets wraps up this weekend in the Mission District, bringing car-free space back to the ever-popular Valencia and 24th Street route. This spring, an estimated 25,000 people came out for the year’s first installment of Sunday Streets in the Mission. The event marks the end of a highly successful season […]

First Walking Sunday Streets a Hit in Chinatown and North Beach

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 19, 2011 | 18 Comments

San Francisco’s Grant Avenue, the city’s oldest street, was opened to pedestrians only yesterday in a milestone Sunday Streets event that drew thousands of people to the historic neighborhoods of Chinatown and North Beach on a sunny, 74-degree day. The city’s first walking Sunday Streets on a thoroughfare that seems like one of the most […]

Scenes from Sunday Streets Western Addition

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 12, 2011 | 6 Comments

An estimated 10,000 people turned out to celebrate Sunday Streets in the Western Addition, NOPA, Fillmore and Alamo Square neighborhoods yesterday. By all indications, the event was a success, and the weather, well, perfect. And we’re in for another treat this week. For the second time in Sunday Streets history, San Franciscans will get to […]

Sunday Streets Returns to Western Addition This Weekend!

By Bryan Goebel | Sep 9, 2011 | 1 Comment

Sunday Streets will grace the streets of Western Addition again this weekend, and bring lots of car-free activities to the Fillmore, NOPA and Alama Square neighborhoods. The event will coincide with International Artists Week, and promises to be great fun! Download the official press release from the SFMTA here [pdf]. See the official activities sheet […]

The Tenderloin Finally Gets a Taste of Car-Free Sunday Streets

By Bryan Goebel | Aug 15, 2011 | 2 Comments

Mary San George was sitting outside her neighborhood flower store yesterday, facing the historic residential high-rise building on O’Farrell Street where she has lived for 27 years, and marveling at something she very rarely gets to experience in her Tenderloin neighborhood: a street full of people instead of cars. “People use this street like a […]

Excitement Builds for Return of Sunday Streets to Tenderloin/Civic Center

By Aaron Bialick | Aug 12, 2011 | No Comments

Clear skies are in the forecast this weekend for the return of Sunday Streets to the Civic Center and Tenderloin neighborhoods after it was rained out last year. Families, merchants, and San Franciscans of all ages are geared up to experience the first dry afternoon of car-free space to play in on Golden Gate Avenue, Polk, Ellis, […]

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