Recent Streetsblog SF posts about North Beach

Eyes on the Street: Rebar Crews Grace Columbus Ave. with Second Parklet

By Aaron Bialick | Apr 28, 2011 | 10 Comments

Within a span of just a few hours, a new parklet has transformed a part of Columbus Avenue in North Beach. Fronting Caffe Roma, it’s the second project to bring some breathing room to choked sidewalks on a section where cafe and restaurant life fill one of the city’s densest and most historic neighborhoods. “Somebody called […]

The Broadway Tunnel: One of SF’s Meanest Streets for Biking and Walking

By Michael Rhodes | May 25, 2010 | 32 Comments

The Broadway tunnel’s pedestrian path. Photo: Michael Rhodes The Broadway tunnel, stretching from Hyde Street in Russian Hill to Powell Street in Chinatown, is one of the scariest places in San Francisco to ride a bike, and it’s no walk in the park for pedestrians, either. With two wide lanes of auto traffic in each […]

Dreaming of Pedestrian Heaven on San Francisco’s Oldest Street

By Michael Rhodes | May 4, 2010 | 35 Comments

Enjoying a car-free Grant Avenue at Noodle Fest. Photo: Michael Rhodes Could San Francisco’s first and oldest thoroughfare become the city’s first true pedestrianized street? Since the day in 1835 when William Richardson drew the first map of Yerba Buena that included just one street, called "Calle de la fundacion" — Foundation Street, which ran […]

StreetUtopia North Beach

By Chris Carlsson | Jan 25, 2010 | 3 Comments

View southeast across North Beach from Russian Hill. StreetUtopia is a new community organizing effort centered in North Beach. Launched by Hank Hyena and Phil Millenbah at an inaugural event in early January, they drew upwards of 150 people to an empty historic storefront at 1 Columbus Avenue, where they showed Streetfilms, had a small […]