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 ...

Sylvia McLaughlin was one person who was troubled with what she saw happen to the bay from her perch in the Berkeley hills. By then, dumping had gotten so pervasive that only six miles of ...

8 Octavia For one of San Francisco’s busiest gateways—the intersection of Highway 101 and Market Street—local designer Stanley Saitowitz created a loft residential building that puts the ...

2006: South Park, now made up of two large lawns surrounding a small sandpit and a 1970s-era wooden playground, is where Jack Dorsey first mentioned the idea of Twitter to Biz Stone, one of four ...

Susan Kelk Cervantes is one of San Francisco's longest-practicing muralists. She is the founder and director of the famed Precita Eyes. These are two of her earliest murals, painted on the side of ...

While the famed romance writer’s massive foliage has won the hearts/ire of many, it’s time to take a look at the structure hiding behind it.

Coit Tower is named for Lillie Hitchcock Coit, an early San Francisco philanthropist and adorer of local firefighters. In addition to her love of San Francisco and firefighting, Coit was noted for ...

BREAKING: Christopher Columbus statue at San Francisco's Coit Tower taken down early this morning. This is ahead of a planned protest that planned to throw it into the bay. pic.twitter.com ...

If it seems like nothing is the same in the Bay Area anymore, technically you’re wrong. In many neighborhoods, you’re likely to have the same neighbors in the same homes as you did back at the ...

hundreds of skaters from all over the bay area are flying down twin peaks and through downtown SF at “bomb hills for black lives,” a demonstration that aims to bring awareness to the black ...

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. Most ...

Originally home to the Miwok people, Angel Island was acquired by a cattle rancher in the 1800s. During the American Civil War, it was used as a military fort and camp by the U.S. Army to ward off ...