NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION
The Richmond District is located in the northwest corner of San Francisco, nestled in between Presidio National Park and the city’s Golden Gate Park. The neighborhood, which includes Sea Cliff and Laurel and Presidio Heights, is home to about 80,000 people. About half of Richmond residents are of Asian ancestry, primarily of Chinese and Korean descent. There is also a large Irish population and many recently arrived Russian immigrants.
Several vibrant commercial areas, including California Street, Clement Street and Geary Boulevard, serve the neighborhood. The 1,400 merchants and small offices in the Richmond District offer a wide range of goods and services.
Local landmarks include the Cliff House and the Beach Chalet at Ocean Beach, the V.A. Hospital at Fort Miley, University of San Francisco and numerous holy houses, including Temple Emanuel, St. John’s Orthodox Church and St. John’s Presbyterian Church. There are numerous attractions in Golden Gate Park, including an American Bison pen, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Strybing Arboretum, the oldest children’s playground west of the Mississippi River and a 9-hole golf course.
NEWSPAPER INFORMATION
Distribution by Neighborhood: Presidio and Masonic Avenues to the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate Park to the Presidio, Sea Cliff
Distribution by Zip Code: 94118 and 94121
Circulation: 25,000
Call it what you may, a government-sanctioned and subcontracted facility for addicts of illicit drugs is illegal. Safe Injection, Safe Consumption, Overdose Prevention, all are terms dreamed up by the imaginative advocates to generate public support, while concealing violations of federal and state law.
“Child of the 1960s: A Day in the Life” is a memoir of the coming of age of an adolescent boy in San Francisco in the turbulent 1960s. You get glimpses of beatniks, hippies, Gypsy Joker bikers, race riots, rowdy 49er football games at venerable Kezar Stadium and other epic events of the times along with an overview of the cultural zeitgeist of the decade.
This photo of Trad’r Sam, the Outer Richmond District Polynesian-themed bar on Geary Boulevard at 26th Avenue, was taken circa 1950. The bar was opened in 1937 by Sam Baylon. SF Heritage called it the “longest continuously running tiki bar in the world.”
Giving people greater flexibility to stay in their homes isn’t something that can happen overnight but requires fixing policies that currently make it difficult to enact even small changes.
For the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s Therapeutic Recreation Inclusion Services Team, this outdoor adventure does not serve as a movement activity alone. Instead, its greater purpose called for inclusivity for people with disabilities soon entering the workforce.
Cartoon by Paul Kilduff.
Broxton’s 2021 piece, “Save Me Joe Louis,” is part of the exhibition titled, “Crafting Radicality,” featuring 42 works by 30 Bay Area artists (both established an up-and-coming), at the de Young Museum, July 22-Dec. 31.
Responding to merchant backlash against a plan for replacing angled parking with parallel parking along Geary Boulevard, the City will create 17 more spaces by relocating three bike-share stations and adding angled parking on a nearby street.
Paying off a mortgage early or not is a very personal decision. I have clients who just want to own their homes free and clear so that they can have peace of mind that they have no more monthly mortgages or obligations to pay.
While the board may not be convening our regular committees and meetings, I am spending our recess in District 1 to meet with constituents and small businesses. My office will be hosting office hours in the district, which is a great way for me and my team to get one-on-one time with our neighbors and constituents and support our local businesses! If you want to meet with me during recess or throughout the rest of the year, email chanstaff@sfgov.org or call 415-554-7410 to schedule a time.
The state’s fiscal health is strong. As Assembly budget chair for the last eight budgets, I’m glad to see that our years of fiscal responsibility has positioned our state well to deal with declining revenues. This enables us to protect the progress we’ve made in key priority areas, avoid cuts to core programs and maintain a $38 billion reserve to safeguard against economic uncertainty in California’s new budget.
The Richmond District is the only neighborhood in San Francisco that can boast of an actual saint in residence.
The Holy Virgin Cathedral on Geary Boulevard and 26th Avenue was built, in part, by a priest of the “Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia,” canonized after his death as Saint John the Wonderworker of Shanghai and San Francisco.
North East Medical Services (NEMS) celebrated the expansion of dental and acupuncture services at its Clement Street Clinic in the Richmond District recently to address the severe lack of dental services for Medi-Cal patients, known as Denti-Cal, as well as to increase access to its culturally and linguistically sensitive Integrated Medicine program.
In a recent story in the Richmond Review, the PAR town hall meeting on Aug. 9 start time was listed as 6 p.m. The correct start time is 6:30 p.m.
Between state legislators in Sacramento, like Senator Scott Weiner and Assemblyman Matt Haney, and our spirited supervisors in City Hall, plus their obsequious, obnoxious YIMBY (i.e., “Yes In My Backyard”) cheerleaders, the clamor for housing monopolizes airwaves, the San Francisco Comical and State Capitol minions who’ve decreed that San Francisco must produce 82,000 new housing units by 2030. Why?
Richmond Review/Sunset Beacon 