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Help Improve Bayview Hunters Point: SFMTA’s Virtual Open House
Bay Area Updates, Virtual Events The SFMTA will be holding a Virtual Open House on the Bayview Hunters Point Quick-Build Project for Evans Avenue, Hunters Point Boulevard, and Innes Avenue. This project is an effort to improve pedestrian and cyclist visibility while reducing opportunities for reckless driving by implementing cost-effective and temporary design treatments that more...
Grapes Are Now In Season at Your Farmers Market
Eat & Drink Hello September! This month we welcome fall breeze and autumn leaves. And with that brings an abundance of grape varieties, as well as crisp apples and delicious ripe pears. Late summer into early fall is when grapes begin to ripen. And with 80 table varieties grown in California, now is the perfect more...
Where to Go Apple Picking in the Bay Area
Outdoorsy, Things to Do, What's Closed / What's Open Want fresh apples? It doesn’t get any fresher than straight from the tree. There are lots of local farms near San Francisco where you can pick your own apples, but due to the recent wildfires and also the pandemic, many farms are closed for the season for U-Pick. Some farms more...
BART Wants to Turn Old Trains into Coffee Shops & Art Works
Brand New BART will be giving the public a chance to have a part of BART history and help in this circle of train car life. The general public a chance to extend the lives of decommissioned train cars in creative and innovative ways. Some initial expressions of interest that have been received more...
SF Opens Four “Air Respite” Centers To Escape Toxic Air
Fire Updates With the “Very Unhealthy” air quality on Friday, San Francisco has opened up four “air respite centers” today from 10am to 5:30pm. Locations are at the Main Library along with the Chinatown and Mission Bay branch libraries plus the Southeast Community Center in Bayview Main Library – 100 Larkin Street at more...
Muni is Free Today (Friday, September 11th)
Fire Updates To help people have easy access to weather relief centers on a day with “very unhealthy” air quality, Muni is free on September 11, 2020. San Francisco has announced they have three “air respite centers” open on Friday from 10am to 5:30pm at the Main Library, Chinatown and Mission Bay branch more...
Toxic, Smoke-Filled Air Chokes SF & Bay Area
Fire Updates Although we figured it out just by opening our curtains and looking outside this morning, thanks to SF Gate for confirming that the air quality on Friday morning was among the worst of the entire fire season. Today’s air is considered “Very Unhealthy” throughout much of the Bay Area. Why is more...
JetBlue Expands at SFO w/ 4 New Routes
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Travel JetBlue, known for their spacious legroom and free wifi, just announced their expansion at SFO with 4 new routes. In summer 2019, JetBlue relocated their operations at San Francisco Airport to Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and started using their own gates, prime for expansion. Previously, Jetblue only flew to San Francisco more...
No Indoor Dining & Bars In SF Until At Least “Mid-October”
Bay Area Updates, Outdoor Dining, What's Closed / What's Open When San Francisco announced its new reopening timeline on September 1st, there wasn’t any mention of indoor dining or bars. Today the city revised the reopening timeline and finally addresses this issue, but still without many specifics. According to the timeline released on September 10th, indoor restaurants and bars (whether indoors more...
San Francisco’s Museums Can Reopen on Sept. 21st
Museums / Cultural Institutions, What's Closed / What's Open Mayor London N. Breed, Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of Health, and Assessor-Recorder Carmen Chu, co-Chair of the City’s Economic Recovery Task Force, today announced that indoor museums and galleries may submit health and safety plans the week of September 14th. They will be able to open as early as September 21st more...
SF’s Indoor Salons & Gyms Can Open Sept. 14th
What's Closed / What's Open San Francisco Announces Next Phase Of Reopening To Begin On Monday Indoor personal services and indoor gyms and fitness centers with limited capacity, hotels, and other lower risk indoor and outdoor activities will move forward on Monday, September 14 September 10, 2020 Mayor London N. Breed, Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of Health, and more...
BART Getting More Trains Starting Sept. 14
Brand New, What's Closed / What's Open Starting next Monday, September 14th, BART will run an updated schedule. The new schedule calls for more frequency during peak weekday commute hours on several lines, creating more hours with 15-minute frequencies. Service hours remain the same: 5 am-9 pm weekdays, 8 am-9 pm weekends. Read the full article. Commute trains at more...
SF’s “Free Wifi” Prank Has Insanely Long Password
Bay Area Updates, Wow Thanks to SF Gate and The Indian Express for giving us great background about this pretty funny “free wifi” flyer a viral San Francisco prankster posted a few weeks ago. Pablo Rohat, an SF-based digital creative artist known for cheeky pranks, posted a video of a flyer promising free wifi with more...
Twitter Needs Roommates for its Massive HQ in SF
Bay Area Updates Thanks to the SF Chronicle for letting us know that Twitter is looking for subtenants for its San Francisco Headquarters as its own employees are staying home. The tech company at has listed nearly 105,000 square feet of 1 Tenth Street for sublease. This is after the company adopted a permanent more...
SFO’s New Longest Flight: 17.5 Hours to India
Bay Area Updates, Travel SFO has a new longest flight. SFGate reported that United Airlines announced a brand new nonstop flight from San Francisco to Bangalore, India that’s 8,701 miles. The flight time clocks in at 17.5 hours. It beats the current longest flight from San Francisco to Singapore by 250 miles. It’s the first more...
