SF News City Agencies About To Get OK To Start Flying Their Own Drones The rush to start flying drones through the skies of San Francisco has thus far consumed for-profit companies like Amazon, Google and Chipotle, all of which seek to to eventually test-fly various drone
SF News Newly Appointed Rec And Parks Commissioner Resigns Days After Being Sworn In Jason Chan's time as a commissioner with the Rec and Parks Department was short and not particularly sweet. The Chronicle reports that the former Ed Lee campaign worker resigned from his post mere
SF News Dolores Park's North Field, AKA Fixie Flats, Closed Until February Starting today, the big flat "multi-use" field on the north side of Dolores Park, a.k.a. the park's main party space, a.k.a. Fixie Flats will be closed for what Rec
SF News Community Members Push Closing Golden Gate Park To Most Cars With the June death of 41-year-old Heather Miller likely on the minds of some, community members gathered Saturday at Golden Gate Park’s County Fair Building to propose different approaches the city of
SF News Woman Paralyzed By Falling Tree Branch Files Suit Against City Emma Zhou suffered a skull fracture, brain injury, and severed spinal cord after a 100-pound tree limb fell on her head while she sat on a bench in Washington Square Park watching her
SF News Sod Laid, Newly Green Alamo Square Nears 'Late Winter' Opening A photo posted by M O S T (@mannyot) on Nov 13, 2016 at 6:35pm PST San Francisco's most photogenic park — Alamo Square, with its downtown views foregrounded by the picturesque Painted
Arts & Entertainment Hayes Valley May Get New Dose Of Burning Man Art Next Month A sort of sliver of Burning Man's Black Rock City in the heart of the far more hospitable Hayes Valley, Patricia's Green has hosted multiple iterations of art inspired by and related to
SF News Attorney For Woman Paralyzed By Tree Branch Says City Was Negligent In Its Tree Trimming Technique The 36-year-old woman who was paralyzed by a falling tree branch while she sat on a city park bench watching her children play has filed a claim against San Francisco alleging negligence. The
SF News How Worried Should You Be About Falling Branches In SF Parks? San Francisco's Recreation and Parks Department is now under scrutiny after a woman walking with her two children on Friday in North Beach's Washington Square Park was struck and seriously injured by a
SF News San Francisco's Newest Dog Park Cost $305,000 And Features Artificial Turf San Francisco's dogs have a new place to do their business this week, as city officials yesterday opened a brand new play area complete with fences and artificial turf. Bay City News reports
SF News SF Shoot For <i>Sense8</i> Hit With Sanctions Over Public Park Nudity Other than the occasional nude march and rally, most San Franciscans have settled into Supervisor Scott Wiener's three-year-old ban on exposed flesh without too much grumbling, but now a location scout who's worked
SF News Rec & Parks Gardener Calls 'Love Dolores' Campaign 'Useless', Rails Against 'F**king Awful' Park-Goers A gardener with the Recreation and Parks Department has some strong opinions following this past weekend's Pride celebrations at Dolores Park. Namely, how useless the "Love Dolores" campaign is, and how you should
SF News Supes Seek To Ban Grass Rentals In All SF Parks Following Dolores Park Dustup Responding to an outpouring of condemnation from the general public, five members of the Board of Supervisors have put forth a resolution that would effectively kill the Recreation and Parks Department's program of
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best Hills In San Francisco Back in simpler times, there weren't so many hills in San Francisco, or so city archivist emeritus Gladys Hansen recalls. "At the very beginning, San Francisco was a very small city and we
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Swimming Pools In San Francisco For those who love swimming, you ought to know that this city has a bunch of swell indoor and outdoor pools, both public and private, that you should probably check out. For the
SF News Here's How San Francisco Voted On All The Props In Yesterday's Election Were you one of the roughly 185,000 people that, according to the SF Department of Elections, voted in San Francisco yesterday? If so, when you entered the voting booth you were presented
SF News Alamo Square To Partially Reopen Through November To Accommodate Selfie-Taking Tourists The "closed" Alamo Square Park pic.twitter.com/Rawxlo1gdr— Matt Laroche (@mlroach) May 22, 2016 A small section of Alamo Square Park will reopen to the public Thursday, and remain open through November,
SF News Rec And Parks To Kill Dolores Park Rental Program Following Backlash San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department will not extend the Dolores Park reservation pilot program we broke the news on yesterday following its mid-July scheduled completion. The program allowed people to reserve sections
SF News [Update] You Can Now Reserve Whole Sections Of Dolores Park Grass For Yourself, For A Price This should end well. A two-month pilot program from the Recreation and Parks Department now allows people to reserve sections of Dolores Park for periods of at least seven hours. And no, not
SF News Fences Be Damned, Tourists Break Into Closed Alamo Square Park For Necessary Photo Ops When Alamo Square Park closed a few weeks ago for nine months of construction, San Franciscans sighed a little bit about the temporary loss of park space and made a quick mental note
SF News Tourists Dismayed At Fences Around Alamo Square; Also The City Is Removing 10 To 12 Trees We all got the memo that Alamo Square would be closing this month for a nine-month renovation, and the fences went up all around the one-block park just in time to keep Bay
SF News Alamo Square Will Close For Nine Months Starting May 10th Alamo Square Park, perhaps the most photographed of San Francisco's many green spaces thanks to its prettily painted Victorian and downtown views, will close to the public beginning next Tuesday, May 10, for
SF News 4/20's Enormous Mess, By The Numbers @lrbrinkley pic.twitter.com/swPUF9x9m0— P@nd!zzy (@panda4good4ever) April 21, 2016 Two days after San Francisco's massive 4/20 celebration of everything cannabis and the mess, officials say, is finally cleaned up.
SF News SFMTA Approves Controversial Twin Peaks Car Ban Almost two years after it was proposed, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has made a decision to ban cars from one side of Twin Peaks, following a contentious meeting Tuesday. As previously
SF News New Rule Would Ban Cars From East Side Of Twin Peaks As reported last summer, a change is coming to Twin Peaks. The popular tourist destination and vantage point draws throngs of tourists and locals whose cars can crowd its roads and create a
