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The Oceanview neighborhood is located in southern San Francisco, south of the Ingleside neighborhood and the Ocean Avenue campus of City College. It is bordered by Interstate 280 to the south and east, Lakeview Avenue to the north and Orizaba Avenue to the west.
It covers roughly a 5-city block length in downtown San Francisco on the south slope of Nob Hill; in the south boundary of the district is adjoining the Tenderloin neighborhood, and in the west it is adjoining the Polk Street/Van Ness corridor. [4] It is bound by 590–1209 Bush, 680–1156 Sutter, and 600–1099 Post Streets. [4]
The area had an active nightlife in the late 19th century with many theaters, restaurants and hotels. Notorious madam Tessie Wall opened her first brothel on O'Farrell Street in 1898. Almost all of the buildings in the neighborhood were destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and the backfires that were set by firefighters to contain the devastation.
What’s living in San Francisco like? Maybe you think you know, from visiting or movies. But San Francisco is a big, diverse place with a bunch of distinct neighborhoods, and living in one can be ...
Nob Hill is a luxury destination in San Francisco, owing to its numerous Michelin-starred restaurants, [12] boutiques, cultural institutions, art galleries, and historic landmarks. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The neighborhood is named after one of San Francisco's original "Seven Hills" and it contains the Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District (also known ...
If you’re looking to buy a home in San Francisco, it shouldn’t be a surprise that it’s expensive.According to Redfin, the average sales price of a home in San Francisco in January 2024 was ...
Rincon Center is a complex of shops, restaurants, offices, and apartments in the South of Market neighborhood of Downtown San Francisco, California.It includes two buildings, one of which is the former Rincon Annex post office building, completed in 1940.
The area was home to San Francisco's first French settlers. Approximately 3,000, sponsored by the French government, arrived near the end of the Gold Rush in 1851. [ 2 ] According to historian Gladys Hansen , the French shared Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) with early Chinese settlers during the early days of Chinatown , and were more ...