Gunshots rang out in three separate shooting incidents this Saturday — two in the Bayview and one during a mugging in Bernal Heights. In the first Bayview incident a 20-year-old man was shot on a T-Third Muni platform near Gilman Avenue. more ›

Hao Mei Wu, the 72-year-old murder victim found unconscious in her Bernal Heights home on Friday night, appears to have been manually strangled by her husband. Police are still weighing a murder charge against 74-year-old Ying Hua Wu, her husband who was the "knife-wielding suspect" who confronted paramedics at the scene as they were trying revive Hao Mei. The husband is said to have confronted paramedics, coming at them with a knife in a threatening manner after he had stabbed himself in the neck. more ›

Local blogger and photographer Todd Lappin — the intrepid explorer behind Telstar Logistics, Bernalwood and probably more than one Photo du Jour around these parts — bravely allowed the host of the earthquake preparedness webshow "Totally Unprepared" scrutinize his home (much of which he designed himself) for potential earth-rattling hazards. And how did it fair? Well, aside from having an earthquake kit and a fire extinguisher, let's just say we'd rather not be standing next to Todd's industrial shelving when the big one hits. more ›

An arachnid invasion which is likely affecting more than one neighborhood has come to our attention via our friends at Bernalwood. They report that this unidentified variety of fat, spotted spider has been weaving webs all over the place this Halloween week, and we at SFist, frankly, are quite alarmed and grossed out. more ›

Add another demonstration to the list of unhappy mobs around town: down in the quiet hillside hamlet of Bernal Heights, some twenty parents of children at the Paul Revere School gathered at the school this morning to protest strict new changes laid out by the school's recently installed principal. According to Bay City News, principal Sheila Sammon who is beginning her second year with the K-8 college prep school, has taken to punishing children for taking bathroom breaks and effectively banned parents from volunteering where their kids go to school. more ›

Our friends down in Bernal Heights are nominating this quirky Cortland Ave scene for the new title of, "Bernal Heights at its most Bernal Heightsiest". Of course, the suggestion there is that our our previous nomination was "a little too cliche and formulaic" for their surely oxygen-rich, high-altitude blood, but actually — we have no issue with this. Carry on, Bernalians. more ›

Over in Bernal Heights, though people still sometimes get robbed while walking home from Glen Park BART, the crimes that have been on everyone's minds lately in the 'hood are a recent spate of succulent and plant thefts from residents' yards. Well, probably not on everyone's minds, but Bernalwood certainly isn't taking this lying down. more ›

While the city's Bureau of Engineering would have you believe that Filbert Street and 22nd Street are tied for San Francisco's steepest, the mild obsessives at local data blog DataPointed discovered a freshly paved section of Bradford Street that challenges everything we know about our city's inclines. DataPointed's Stephen von Worley explains: more ›

In a story fit for Maury, a young mother was stabbed in the eye late Thursday morning during an argument with another woman, reportedly over a man who has had children with both ladies. Here's how it went down: The victim saw the other momma in the area and a verbal joust erupted. Like any good mother would do, the victim then escalated the situation and got a kitchen knife but she didn't use it against the other mother, "who apparently had another knife or sharp object and stabbed her." Then, 27-year-old Michelle Singletary was arrested for the eye stabbing, which went down in the 900 block of Ellsworth Street," reports BCN (via SF Appeal). more ›

While this is technically a late addition to our Board of Supervisors Agenda Items of Interest post, we thought this one was interesting enough to warrant it's own breakdown: Down in Bernal Heights our friends at Bernalwood tipped us off that Supervisor Campos plans to introduce legislation at today's meeting that would create a simple process to preserve historic signs citywide and not just protect that controversial, vintage Coca-Cola ad in his district. more ›

Supervisor David Campos has done an about-face as only a politician can, and according to the Examiner he's now declared that the vintage Coca-Cola sign that was causing that NIMBY-generated stir is, indeed, of historical value. Siding with folks like Bernalwood and the property owner, Campos says, "We have decided that on balance the best approach is to move forward and protect the sign which ultimately is there, not for the purposes of advertising Coca Cola, but for the purpose really of giving us a sense what the neighborhood was like." [Examiner via Bernalwood] more ›

"Water Plume" (at Bowdoin and Burrows) by peephole / Brady Lea. more ›

Over in Bernal Heights a battle is being waged over a vintage Coca-Cola ad that typifies all we know and love about San Franciscans. The fight pits neighbor against NIMBY neighbor, preservationist against anti-consumerist, sentimentalist against anti-corn syrup activist — and therefore it has the makings of a made-for-KQED movie. You see, as Bernalwood first reported, an anonymous Bernal resident complained to the City about a vintage, painted Coca-Cola sign on the side of a building at the corner of Tompkins and Banks Streets. The complaint: The sign promotes the unhealthy consumption of sugar, and what's more, it violates San Francisco's strict anti-billboard law. more ›

Bernal Heights at its most Bernal Heightsiest, shot by Troy Holden. more ›

We're not sure what's going on here, exactly - the brown in the water is probably dirt rather than fecal matter - but Bernalwood came across this scene today in Bernal Heights. Todd_Lappin reports, "While rebuilding the new sewer line on Bocana today, our friends at the City Department of Public work unleashed a spurting dirt-fountain on the neighborhood." more ›

Yesterday, according to The Chronicle, 18-year-old Calin Hunter was shot and killed in the city's Bernal Heights neighborhood. The murder occurred on the 500 block of Alemany Boulevard at around 8:30 p.m. "No arrests have been made, and a motive is under investigation." more ›

Bernal Heights needs -- yes, needs -- antennas. Why? So we can use our beloved mobile communication devices with little to no interruption at a moment's notice, that's why. What's more, area supervisor David Campos talked with Bernalwood recently to discuss wireless antenna installations, why he thinks they are perfectly safe, why he thinks residents should worry about them anyway, and what he's doing to improve coverage in his district. Read it now. more ›

You know, kids, your editor once lived atop Bernal Heights for a brief spell during the early '00s. We don't remember much about our tenure there, really, except titularly wild times at Wild Side West and walking up Cortland. Always with the walking up Cortland. Always. So steep. So very steep. Anyway, according to Mission Mission, a nascent blog dedicated to Bernal Heights launched the other day. It's called Bernalwood. Check it out. Image: Stephen Sommerhalter more ›

Oh dear. A small grass fire broke out on Bernal Hill on Thursday night. According to SF Appeal, "The fire was reported at about 9:30 p.m. on Bernal Hill...It was quickly extinguished and caused little damage." The cause of the tiny blaze is under investigation. Speaking of fires, last week's spectacular car fire in the Mission appears to have been an accident, not the work of the infamous Carsonist. more ›

Guns. They're bad. Or good. Depending. They kill people, sure; but Shockwave, our first Transformers action figure, turned into a gun. Obviously, like a profound game of chess played at an East Coast liberal arts institution, it's a complicated issue. Or not. They're guns. Pew, pew. more ›

Windup car in Bernal Heights by We Built This City. more ›

The anniversary of Oscar Grant's killing, who was (accidentally?) shot and killed at the BART Fruitvale station on New Year's Day 2009, hit Bernal Hill over the weekend. more ›

Emergency_In_SF reports a blaze in happening in Bernal Heights. "Fire on the top floor of a 3-story residence at Peralta and Esmeralda near Bernal Heights [Park]. SFFD on scene." more ›

Steve Rhodes reports that, by 10 a.m. this morning, only 60-plus people out of several thousand voted at this Bernal Heights polling place. more ›

In some sort of retro-angry political statement that means nothing really but is highly amusing, this message appeared at the top of Bernal hill this morning. What does it mean? Well, it is in reference to freeing those "militant" cop killers from the 1970s, the ones the majority of the SF Board of Supervisors would like Attorney General Jerry Brown (and possible future Governor of California) Jerry Brown to pardon. (You can read more about that here.) However, the signage would be even fucking deeper man if they removed the "S." Because: heavy. That said, we would LOVE to see more signs like this placed on the hills of San Francisco. Get cracking, residents. more ›

If you're not reading Curbed, you're missing out. On a lot. Take, for example, this Bernal Heights home (638 Banks St Unit 638-A) they came across, which is currently on the market. The decision to use this, um, decorative comforter to sell a house in San Francisco sure does pop, doesn't it? more ›

And now, some nice puppies that need your help... more ›