Recent photos of my neighborhood in SF and other areas of the city, as well. Almost all photos are from Sunday evening stroll on June 1 (including views from two different apt roofs). I have quite a vast collection of photos of the city that haven’t been posted, but decided to get some on here as my computer recently crashed and what better place to store photos than online!
My neighborhood, where Russian Hill meets Nob Hill meets Pacific Heights meets Polk Gulch.
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View up to Nob Hill
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View up to Russian Hill
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My neighborhood’s main commercial drag looking north
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Looking over to the beginning of Pacific Heights
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Nob Hill from the west
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Russian Hill from the west
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Typical year-round street scene of café combined with neighborhood grocery and outdoor seating. This place sells half pints of ice cream for $10.89, though its sandwiches are a much better deal!
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One of several neighborhood grocers along Polk St
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Fancy Russian Hill Penthouse presumably owned by a local wealthy NIMBY who would never want to see another tower built in the area
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Typical Nob Hill/Russian Hill residential street
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Side street in Polk Gulch
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Typical Polk Gulch
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Typical “Tendernob” (i.e. Nob Hill and Tenderloin meet)
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Polk Gulch/Tendernob looking up to Cathedral Hill to the west
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Looking down Geary St I believe
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The always fun Phoenix Hotel in the middle of the ‘Loin/Civic Center area. This will always be here. Sight of pool parties, celebrity sightings, and awkward motel design plopped right into the middle of the city.
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The doorman.
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Civic Center area with bulk of city’s City Beautiful/Institutional Beaux Arts architecture amongst all the government/civic buildings.
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Community garden
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Looking west to NoPa
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Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
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Typical Civic Center building…civic in nature of course
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Twitter Alley – in between 2 buildings that serve as Twitter’s HQ, shops/uses coming soon
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SoMa side street
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A scene from the SoMa neighborhood of SF
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Quiet Sunday evening on New Montgomery St near the city’s Financial District
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Quiet Sunday evening on Second St near the city’s Financial District
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A loft building in South Beach neighborhood.
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This neighborhood is usually bustling, especially on Giants game days and weekdays, however, area residents enjoy peace and quiet on a Sunday evening.
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Mission Bay construction across the China Basin…a whole new city built from scratch!
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Transferring to the southeastern section of the city – the Mission/Dolores Heights/Noe and Eureka Valley…that’s the newer construction of the Mission Dolores, with the original next to it.
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SF General with new addition
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Looking up to Upper Market St
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Looking up to Cathedral Hill, with the cathedral shrouded in fog, of course.
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Wisps of fog float between SF’s two tallest buildings.
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Looking down to Rincon Hill and some construction
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Karl!
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EARLY MAY STROLL
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New construction next to old. Minimalist design by Stanley Saitowitz
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Hotel Vertigo…
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A bit of Georgian architecture on the west coast, of course with some Queen Anne influence.
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Typical scene from central core of the city
LATE APRIL STROLL
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New construction in my neighborhood. SF can be modern and classy, too!
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Pac Heights density
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