SF News Bernal Heights Street Renamed ‘Sean Monterrosa Boulevard’ After His 2020 Killing by Vallejo PD The Vallejo Police Department isn’t going to like this — an SF street in Bernal Heights has been renamed in honor of Sean Monterrosa, who that department killed at the height of the George Floyd protests.
Arts & Entertainment Sheila E. and Father Pete Escovedo Get Street Named After Them In Oakland The glamorous life is coming to Oakland’s Ivy Hill neighborhood, where a block of East 21st Street has been honorarily renamed “Escovedo Way” in honor of 80s pop star Sheila E. and her groundbreaking percussionist father Pete Escovedo.
Arts & Entertainment Newly Renamed Street ‘Emperor Norton Place’ Gets Proper Dedication, In Wild Ceremony With Doggie Diner Heads The very street where Emperor Norton lived in the late 1800s was recently renamed Emperor Norton Place, and its official dedication Sunday drew the Doggie Diner heads and a slew of local celebrities.
Arts & Entertainment Alley Near Dolores Park to Be Renamed In Honor of Founding Sister of Perpetual Indulgence, Sister Vish-Knew A one-block street in SF's Mission District, just two blocks away from Dolores Park and near the location where two gay men donned nun's habits in the late 1970s and birthed a drag-activist movement and culture, is set to be renamed in honor of a founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
SF News Activists Want to Rename South Van Ness Avenue as ‘Dolores Huerta Boulevard’ An online petition hopes to honor the labor movement icon by naming South Van Ness Avenue after her, but the logistics are perhaps a little overwhelming.
SF News Treasure Island Will Need Completely New Street Names Following Development Treasure Island, the artificial swath of land beside Yerba Buena Island originally constructed for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, will soon be a place where the streets have no name. That's because
SF News Newsflash: Most Of San Francisco's Streets Were Named After Men You can tell a lot about the history of a place by its street names — Houston, Texas has Robert E. Lee Road, for example — but what, if anything, does the gender breakdown of
SF News Who Octavia Street Is Named After, and Other Fun Facts From a New Interactive Street Map Once upon a time in 1855, a humble milkman by the name of Charles H. Gough became an alderman and was asked to join a committee tasked with naming the streets of the
Arts & Entertainment Gallery of Street Name Typos Polk Sheet shared a funny photo the other day of this curb at "Sacarmneto" and Hyde sporting a comically misspelled street name. This led us to discover a delightful gallery by "throgers" (via
