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For 14 years, Curbed SF has been obsessed with all things San Francisco. We covered the city’s biggest developments, including the opening of the Transbay Transit Center and the construction of ...
On Thursday, a handful of skaters climbed Twin Peaks — the second-highest hill in S.F., with a curvy street perfect for skating — and plunged, from its apex, down Market Street and then onward ...
Every day at sundown I head to South Park, my neighborhood park, and sit in the spot where Cate Blanchett had a mental breakdown in Blue Jasmine. It’s fitting because, like Cate’s character ...
Tech titans declaring Silicon Valley “over” and threatening to pack up their Duplo blocks and leave is nothing new. But Elon Musk’s recent anti-California proclamations, spurred by the ...
On the afternoon of January 14, 2020, a red tin-foil heart balloon bobbed sadly in the breeze. The balloon was tied to the top of a hastily erected chain-link fence around the house at 2928 ...
The crowd has cleared out—most people are already onboard—but a few stragglers rush to the boat. The ferry idles for a few more minutes before pulling away. It’s sunny and warm, the kind of ...
In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the Bay Area, San Francisco’s home sales inventory have nearly vanished. In the weeks since Bay Area counties began following shelter-in-place ...
Ask anyone to describe what makes San Francisco special and Victorian architecture would land near the top of the list, somewhere between sourdough bread and tech money. Here now is a crash course ...
The ongoing fraud investigation into the massive and delayed 555 Fulton project in Hayes Valley, prompted by allegations against former SF Public Works leader Mohammed Nuru, has now ensnared Tom ...
The caricature of a NIMBY is someone with a screw-you-I’ve-got-mine attitude, either a wealthy, white homeowner who thinks renters lower property values or a nostalgic progressive opposed to ...
During the recent NFC Championship that put the 49ers into the Super Bowl—and then subsequently broke Bay Area hearts—the broadcast seemed allergic to mentioning the Niners’ hometown of ...
One of Alamo Square’s famous and frequently photographed Painted Ladies is up for sale, an event akin to a singular astronomical alignment or the visit of a foreign dignitary—not unheard of ...