Posts Tagged ‘hayes’
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Bike NOPA organized a successful bicycle ride yesterday – join them on the last weekend of the month, why don’t you? They’ll always start and end in the North of Panhandle Area, conveniently located just west of the EaPA .
Organizer Lenore is Patty Hearst:
She matches up well with this awesome WANTED poster, anyway. (Warning: Photoshop just might have been used here, albeit more skillfully than what you can see in similar materials from Mayor Gavin Newsom’s inchoate gubernatorial campaign.)
But let’s start at the beginning, at the ridiculously popular Central Cofee Tea and Spice at the corner of Central and Hayes. Owner Ali was impressed with the early-morning turnout:
40+ cyclists began the trek:
It almost looked like Critical Mass, that monthly illegal bicycle parade, except that NoPA Velo riders actually stop at red lights to let cross-traffic through. And that makes all the difference…
And then the handsome crowd…
…went up the hill to visit the secure undisclosed location where Patty Hearst’s kidnappers* kept her in a closet on Golden Gate Avenue in the NoPA:
Off the riders go, through Golden Gate Park and on up to the Presidio to hear of recent developments from Ranger Dale:
And then it was over to Jannah on bustling Fulton for an apres-velo lunchtime bite.
See you on the next ride!
*Patty Hearst Shaw managed to get pardoned by two different U.S. Presidents. Here she is, just after the second pardon, on the Larry King pwning local attorney Stuart Hanlon:
“KING: People not happy with your pardon, Stuart Hanlon, the defense lawyer for the former SLA fugitive Kathy Soliah, now known as Sara Jane Olson.
HEARST: What a surprise. He’s also my kidnapper’s lawyer, too.”
Pwned.
Tags: 1827, ali, area, attorney, bike, BIKE NOPA, central, central cofee tea and spice, closet, coffee, every, fulton, golden gate, hayes, jannah, kidnapped, larry king, lawyer, lunch, lyon, month, NOPA, nopa velo, north of panhandle, owner, patty hearst, ride, San Francisco, shaw, shop, stuart hanlon, velo nopa, western addition
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
This guy is all over town- see him with his surfboard trailer coming back from a day at dolphin-rich Ocean Beach? On this part of Scott Street in the greater NoPA / EaPA / Alamo Square / Western Addition area, he needs to take both lanes and snake his way up, as if he were ascending the twisty bit of Lombard.
Which is fine – dude’s a stud, of course. But it seems that $20 worth of Chinese derailer and cassette would be the perfect finishing touch for this expensive custom-looking rig*. Unless “too many gears spoil the ride” or something.
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Keep on keeping on.
*Upon further review, this thing is so custom that it might not actally be considered an MTB – the rear tire appears to be a good deal narrower than the front, for example. Wonder if the tiny surfboard wheels are in matching carbon fibre. Wouldn’t be surprised…
Tags: alamo square, area, bicycle, bike, board, carbon, cyclist, EaPA, east of panhandle, fell, fibre, Futility, hayes, hilly, mountain bike, mtb, NOPA, north of panhandle, ocean beach, San Francisco, scott, single speed, street, streets of san francisco, surf, surfboard, surfing, trailer, western addition, Wheels
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
If I lived in this Hayes Street condo, I’d just tell the window cleaners to forget about it, considering the effort they would need to expend.
I wouldn’t want to be the worker at the end of this Genie scissors lift, anyway:
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Tags: cleaner, cleaning, condo, franklin, GENIE, gough, hayes, lift, San Francisco, scissors, Valley, Window
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
You all know Webster Street, right? It’s Fillmore’s little buddy, taking people from Market Street north all the way up to our mismanaged Marina Yacht Harbor.
But take a look here to see what happens after it crosses Hayes Street. It turns into boulevard for some odd reason, for some 11 blocks, only to shrink back down again into a regular street at the intersection at Bush.
Looking north. The traffic heading up this street, (like the silver SUV) needs to jog right to get on the other side of the very wide median See that? It’s goes parking lane, bike lane, slow lane, fast lane, huge median, fast lane, slow lane, bike lane, and then another parking lane:
Here’s a bird’s-eye view. From Grove to Bush, from the Western Addition to “Little Osaka” (the cartographers’ favorite term for what people actually call Japantown in real life) it’s an unbusy boulevard, for an only-Gaia-knows-why purpose:
I cry foul.
Here’s a modest proposal – why not de-boulevard (v.t.) Webster by getting rid of the useless treed-up median and the twin northbound lanes for the entire three-quarters of a mile? Would anybody miss the median and the extra lanes? I mean, Fillmore does the all the heavy lifting with traffic and buses and whatnot, right?
That would leave us with 200,000 square feet of space to do whatever we want with. What would you do with 3.5 football fields worth of space?
In Japantown, some people already want to shut down the northbound lanes for extra parking or for temporarily housing businesses displaced by planned seismic upgrades for buildings on Post Street. But why not just kill the whole boulevard now in one fell swoop?
(Poorly-designed Octavia Boulevard has the opposite problem of having too much stalled traffic idling away, blocking travelers journeying east and west. Oh well.)
In conclusion:
What do we want?
A de-boulevarded Webster Street!
When do we want it?
Now!
(Repeat as necessary.)
Tags: alley, avenue, bike, boulevard, bridge, bush, cyclists, de-boulevard, deboulevard, fillmore, grove, hayes, ivy, j-town, japantown, jtown, lane, little osaka, mall, median, parking, pedestrians, post, San Francisco, street, strret, trees, webster, western addition, wide
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Until recently, there were two bus stops on the same side of this short block of Hayes Street near Masonic. See?
But a few of the stops had to go away to comply with the new changes that came about on December 6, 2009.
The remaining stops got a bit of sprucing up last week, with red paint and what not:
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Of course there’s no shelter to replace the ones that got taken away, but you can’t have everything in Life, right? You can’t expect a minor bus line to have four stops just for itself within a 200 foot radius forever, right?
Hurray.
Tags: 1800, 19, 2009, 2010, 21, 21 hayes, 5, 5th, ave, avenue, bus, campus, ccsf, ciity college, consolidation, december, hayes, john adams, judson true lies, Line, masonic, mta, Muni, municipal railway, nat ford, November, paint, red, removal, San Francisco, sfcc, SFMTA, shelter, stop, street, tep, transit effectiveness project
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
They call it Bus Stop Consolidation and it’s happening right now this morning on the #21 Hayes line. A crew comes along and the next thing you know, your favorite bus shelter is rolling down the street and into oblivion.
But amazingly, this block will still have one stop left (after losing two!) and then there are other stops close by. It’s sort of ridiculous to have one or two (on the same side of the street!) stops on every block, right?
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Hurray!
Thanks, MUNI. (Seriously.)
Tags: 19, 2009, 21, 21 hayes, ave, avenue, bus, consolidation, hayes, Line, masonic, mta, Muni, municipal railway, nat ford, November, removal, San Francisco, SFMTA, shelter, stop, street
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Can’t really say what happened tonight on Hayes Street between Baker and Broderick Streets, but the word on the street is that the SFPD hauled two suspected gang members and their guns off to the hoosegow. I’d say a ton of cops were there, but if you weighed them all up it would probably be more than that – a huge response.
Just some of the motorcycle cops preparing to exit the scene:
This is about a block from where Aubrey Abrakasa was slain in 2006 and where Melissa Dennsion was struck by a car and killed last month.
Tags: arrest, baker, broderick, department, gang, guns, hayes, member, NOPA, north, panhandle, police, San Francisco, SFPD, street, western addition
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
This is the scene down in Hayes Valley on Linden Street near Gough on a Saturday morning. This Yelp-rated kiosk is phenomenally busy, as busy as nearby Brenda’s French Soul Food. Here’s the skivvy:
“We have an odd but convivial little coffee kiosk in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley: 315 Linden Street, SF, CA 94102. We have a small menu of espresso drinks, drip coffee, our New Orleans iced coffee, a few cookies from the cute girls at Miette Cakes, and biscotti from Pizzetta 211. We offer beans to sell, dropped off Tuesday morning, Wednesday evening and Saturday morning. We use Clover organic milk, and organic sugar. Please drop by. M-F 7-5 or 6; Sat, Sun 8-5 or 6.”
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But it’s just coffee, right people?
Tags: 315 lines, alley, best, blue bottle, blue bottle coffee, bluebottle, bluebottle coffee, busy, coffee, hayes, kiosk, linden, street, Valley, yelp
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
This was the scene yesterday outside of beloved Parkside Market on Hayes in the North of Panhandle / NOPA area of San Francisco - it’s the 9th Annual Block Party for the neighborhood, with “MUSIC and BBQ!”
Didn’t see any bubbles this year, oh well. Here’s what it looked like yesterday.
This pooch was on best behavior and was soon able to gain access to the nearby burger. One chomp and it was gone.
A moonbounce for the kids
This one got a little too much electric Kool-Aid
Speaking of electricity, see this band? They were loud.
All thanks to sweet, sweet AC electricty – that sure beats a shopping cart full of car batteries.
There’s your NOPNA Block Party 2009.
Tags: 2009, 30, association, bbq, block, block party, hayes, lyon, market, may, meeting, moon bounce, music, neighborhood, nopna, north of panhandle, panhandle, park side, parkside, party
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
The most popular pastime for MUNI riders on the weekends on the Streets of San Francisco is standing in traffic next to the bus stop and gazing up the street with a 1000-yard stare where-the-hell-is-it.
“The thousand-yard stare is the unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier. The stare is a characteristic combat stress reaction which is related to post-traumatic stress disorder.”
That’s got to be number one. But number two, with a bullet, is knitting!
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In through the front door
Around the back
Out through the window
And off jumps jack.
Tags: 21, bus, hayes, knit, knitting, mta, Muni, pasttime, san fransico, stop, street, weekend
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