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The San Francisco Theatre District is a neighborhood in San Francisco named for the legitimate theaters located there. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The district encompasses part of the Union Square shopping district and the Tenderloin and Civic Center neighborhoods. [ 4 ]
The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco is on California Street at Presidio Avenue in Presidio Heights. [44] The 1933 building was designed in the Mediterranean Revival Style with Art Deco details by Arthur Brown Jr. [45] The neighborhood was the site of the murder of Paul Stine by the Zodiac Killer near the corner of Washington and Cherry.
Part of the western extent of the Tenderloin, Larkin and Hyde Streets between Turk and O'Farrell, was officially named "Little Saigon" by the City of San Francisco. [4] The area has a reputation for crime and has among the highest levels of homelessness and crime in the city. It is the center of the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco.
Before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Van Ness Avenue was known as "the city’s grandest boulevard, lined with Victorian mansions and impressive churches" (San Francisco Chronicle). [6] After the earthquake, the street was used as a firebreak by the US Army , dynamiting almost all buildings on its eastern side in an ultimately successful ...
The first permanent San Francisco City Hall was completed in 1898 on a triangular-shaped plot in what later became Civic Center, bounded by Larkin, McAllister, and Market, after a protracted construction effort that had started in 1871; although the constructors had promised to complete work within two years, "honest graft" was an accepted ...
Looking east from the Steiner Street pedestrian overpass. Geary Boulevard (designated as Geary Street east of Van Ness Avenue) is a major east–west 5.8-mile-long (9 km) thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, United States, beginning downtown at Market Street near Market Street's intersection with Kearny Street, and running westbound through downtown, the Civic Center area, the Western ...
Civic Center/UN Plaza station (often Civic Center station) is a combined BART and Muni Metro rapid transit station in the Market Street subway in downtown San Francisco. Located under Market Street between 7th Street and 8th Street, it is named for the Civic Center neighborhood and the adjacent United Nations Plaza. The three-level station has ...
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.