Bay Area Updates
SF’s 153rd Italian Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach (Oct. 10)
Bay Area Updates, Fairs & Festivals, Festival Updates, Reopening One of the San Francisco’s oldest celebrations of heritage and the longest-running Italian-American parade in the nation returns October 10, 2021. Thanks to The Chronicle for breaking the news it’s the first major parade to return to San Francisco since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Serving as the Grand Marshall is Graziano Cerchiai, owner of the historic more...
80% of Eligible San Franciscans Are Vaccinated
Bay Area Updates, Vaccines As of Sunday, 80 percent of eligible San Francisco residents have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Mayor London Breed said. “This a major milestone but we still have work to do to make sure that all of us are protected,” the mayor posted on her Twitter account. “Now is the time more...
SF Beaches & Lookouts Might Start Charging $3/Hr Parking in 2022
Bay Area Updates, Have Your Voice Heard, Parks & Beaches The National Park Service on Friday announced plans to add new parking fees at sites in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco and Marin County and begin a new fee for after-hour tours at the Point Bonita Lighthouse. The proposed fees, for sites that are currently free, include more...
Alcatraz Night Tours Return in September (Finally!)
Bay Area Favorites, Bay Area Updates, Museums / Cultural Institutions, Only in San Francisco, Reopening, What's Closed / What's Open Evening tours at Alcatraz Island are back after having been temporarily suspended for the first time in more than a year, Alcatraz City Cruises announced this week. The night tours return beginning Sept. 9, and will be offered Thursdays through Mondays with ferries leaving from San Francisco’s Pier 33 at 6 more...
Oakland Postpones 2021 Chinatown Street Fest
Bay Area Updates, Festival Updates, Oakland Sadly, the Oakland Chinatown StreetFest has been postponed. We look forward to when we can announce the festival’s return. Out of an abundance of caution due to rising COVID cases, the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce has made the difficult decision to postpone this year’s Oakland Chinatown 33rd StreetFest originally scheduled more...
SF is No Longer the Priciest Place to Rent in USA (Barely)
Bay Area Updates, Good News, Housing San Francisco just got demoted. Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the news that San Francisco is no longer the most expensive city for rent in the United States. According to data from the August 2021 Zumper report, New York just edged out San Francisco to take the number 1 spot with the more...
BART Gets $331 Million COVID Recovery Windfall
Bay Area Updates, Getting Help, Transportation Thanks to KRON4 for sharing the news that the U.S. Department of Transportation just granted BART $330.8 million from the American Rescue Plan funds. The funds were granted to help BART recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. More than $30 billion dollars of the American Rescue Plan Act budget has been reserved more...
SF’s New 18-Story 100% Affordable Housing in SOMA Breaks Ground
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, Housing Mayor London N. Breed today celebrated the groundbreaking of a new 18-story 100% affordable housing complex in the South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. The development at 921 Howard Street will be one of the largest affordable housing projects seen in San Francisco in the last decade, with 40% of the more...
EPA Grants Nearly $3 Million To Fund Bay Area Wildfire Smoke Research
Bay Area Updates, Fire Updates Three Bay Area research projects will share nearly $3 million in federal grants to study how people can reduce their exposure to toxic wildfire smoke, according to an announcement Wednesday from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and Oakland-based Public Health Institute were all awarded more...
This is What Stern Grove Looks Like Now
Bay Area Updates, City Insight, Festival Updates, Getting Help, What's Closed / What's Open Sunday‘s final show of the year for the Stern Grove Festival in San Francisco has been canceled because of a water main break that flooded the site, festival organizers announced Wednesday. The rupture of the water main on Monday closed Stern Grove and nearby Pine Lake; however, the west end of more...
West Nile Virus Detected in Gilroy Mosquitoes
Bay Area Updates The Santa Clara County Vector Control District on Tuesday announced the discovery of mosquitoes that tested positive for West Nile virus in the Gilroy area and promptly began targeted spraying in neighborhoods. The mosquitoes were collected from portions of the 95020 ZIP code, the area targeted for treatment operations on Thursday. more...
SF’s “Leaning” Millennium Tower’s $100 Million Fix Halted
Bay Area Updates, Getting Help, Housing Oh no… San Francisco’s Millennium Tower, The City’s famously sinking apartment building, was on its way to being repaired, but work has now halted. Thanks to NBC Bay Area for sharing the news that after sinking 18 inches and leaning 14 inches, a $100 million solution was in progress when the more...
UC Berkeley Ordered to Freeze Enrollment
Bay Area Updates By Keith Burbank, Bay City News University of California at Berkeley officials must freeze campus enrollment at the 2020-21 level following a court decision on Monday over the university’s impact on nearby neighborhoods. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman found that rising enrollment has affected neighboring housing, causing displacement, and creating more...
Flooding Closes Stern Grove, Cancels Final Concert of 2021
Bay Area Updates, Festival Updates Oh no… Due to a nearby ruptured water main, the east end of Stern Grove will be closed until further notice while San Francisco Public Works and SF Water, Power, Sewer (SFPUC) fix the problem. East End of Stern Grove Closed & Stern Grove Festival Cancelled The east end of Stern Grove more...
SF’s New Waterfront Park Opens to Public For First Time Ever
Bay Area Updates, Brand New, New Parks, Only in San Francisco, Outdoorsy, Parks & Beaches Black Point Historic Gardens is the San Francisco Bay Area’s newest national park site, a one-acre hillside that connects San Francisco’s Aquatic Park to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) at Fort Mason. At Black Point Historic Gardens, an outdoor staircase connects to newly restored pathways, budding gardens and terraced more...
