So, if it was a person, you could say it looks around and says, "Hmm, I see a Starbucks WiFi zone, another reading "Stacey's Bookstore," the picture you just took must have been taken in the 500 block of Market Street in San Francisco."

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on September 4, 2008.

The morning started with elderly cheerleaders performing in Chinatown's Portsmouth Square and activities stretched from the Ferry Building to the Bayview Opera House on Third Street, where the car-free route ended.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 1, 2008.

In the first of two "Sunday Streets" events, roads will be closed to cars from the Bayview to Chinatown, to encourage more outdoor activity.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on August 31, 2008.

SUNDAY: Sunday Streets (yay!) will go down along the Embarcadero from Bayview to Chinatown from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Which? Will result in the following street closures: Washington from Kearny to northbound Embarcadero, northbound Embarcadero from Washington to King, eastbound King from Second Street to the Embarcadero, Terry Francois Boulevard from Third Street to Mariposa, Illinois from Cargo Way to Terry Francois Boulevard, and Northbound Third Street from Cargo Way to Oakdale.

Published by SFist on August 30, 2008.

Police said the fires have been started in Chinatown, the Financial District, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights neighborhoods.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on August 29, 2008.

Police said the fires have been started in Chinatown, the Financial District, Russian Hill, Pacific Heights and Presidio Heights neighborhoods.

Published by San Francisco Crime blog on August 29, 2008.

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Published by SF Weekly on August 29, 2008.

Two crew members suffered relatively minor injuries, Holland said.Cable cars on the California line will be out of service for the rest of the day as a result of the collision, Holland said. The California line runs east to west from the Financial District, through Chinatown, over Nob Hill and stops at Van Ness Avenue.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on August 29, 2008.

Two crew members suffered relatively minor injuries, Holland said.Cable cars on the California line will be out of service for the rest of the day as a result of the collision, Holland said. The California line runs east to west from the Financial District, through Chinatown, over Nob Hill and stops at Van Ness Avenue.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on August 29, 2008.

A portion of San Francisco's streets from the Bayview to Chinatown will close to cars for four hours on Sunday and instead be filled with bicyclists, break-dancers and roller skaters.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 28, 2008.

San Francisco will close more than four miles of roadway from the Bayview to Chinatown and along the Embarcadero. It begins this Sunday, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and again on September 14th.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 26, 2008.

The route extends from Bayview Opera House, up Illinois Street to the Embarcadero, along the waterfront, and across Washington Street into Chinatown.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 26, 2008.

Imagine a city without cars. By blocking off a huge stretch of road from Bayview to Chinatown along the Embarcadero, SF's new Sunday Streets program will be the closest we'll get to that — so far. Instead of cars whizzing down the roads, walkers, dancer, joggers, cyclists, and skaters will rule. The city plans to block off the same streets Sept. 14.

Published by San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 26, 2008.

Street cleaning signs are being changed around the city this week, reducing weekly street sweeping to twice monthly. The exceptions will be commercial streets and high density neighborhoods like Chinatown, North Beach and Nob Hill, said Edward Reiskin, director of the Department of Public Works.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on August 26, 2008.

Customers queued up outside Hilda Lin's sports shop in San Francisco's Chinatown all day Tuesday, eager for copies of the Sing Tao Daily newspaper.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 20, 2008.

The exhibition runs from Monday to Oct. 26 at the local chapter's office in the historic Hallidie Building (130 Sutter St.). For the full program of events, go to: www.aiasf.org.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 19, 2008.

Within days, he allegedly robbed two banks in downtown San Francisco - a United Commercial Bank on Van Ness Avenue last Tuesday, and a Wells Fargo on Montgomery Street on Saturday - before he was apprehended at a Tenderloin residential hotel.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 19, 2008.

In both cases, an unarmed robber handed a note to tellers and fled on foot. One robbery happened at United Commercial Bank on Van Ness Avenue last Tuesday and the other at a Wells Fargo on Montgomery Street on Saturday.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 19, 2008.

Three poets from San Francisco’s supervisorial District 6 area will read their poems at the Poets Eleven event at the Mission Bay Branch library this Wednesday, August 20th, starting at 6:30 p.m. The event is part of a serie…

Published by Rincon Hill neighborhood blog on August 19, 2008.

The exhibition runs from Monday to Oct. 26 at the local chapter's office in the historic Hallidie Building (130 Sutter St.). For the full program of events, go to: www.aiasf.org.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 18, 2008.

The fire department was calling this a real public-private partnership as they got the owners of the downtown building at 555 California Street to allow them to let it fall victim to a mock emergency.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 17, 2008.

There was also drama at 1 Post Street. A mock shooter went on a rampage where another unidentified chemical had been released.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 17, 2008.

The Montgomery Street Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco was reopened around 10:25 a.m. today after it was evacuated due to a suspicious package.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 16, 2008.

The Montgomery Street Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco was reopened around 10:25 a.m. today after it was evacuated due to a suspicious package.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on August 16, 2008.

The Montgomery Street Bay Area Rapid Transit station in San Francisco was reopened around 10:25 a.m. Saturday, after it was evacuated due to a suspicious package.A station agent reported around 9:35 a.m. that a package brought onto the concourse level by a homeless person was suspicious, and BART and San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency passengers were evacuated, BART spokesman Linton Johnson said.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on August 16, 2008.

Two simulated nuclear attacks will go down, so to speak, within a three-hour period: the first around 10 a.m. at 555 California, the "second some time later" at 1 Post.

Published by SFist on August 15, 2008.

Two simulated nuclear attacks will go down, so to speak, within a three-hour period: the first around 10 a.m. at 555 California, the "second some time later" at 1 Post.

Published by SFist on August 15, 2008.

Nieporent told Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer (see the Aug. 8 Between Meals blog posting on sfgate.com/food) that he had been running Rubicon (558 Sacramento St., near Montgomery) without a lease for the last two years, and that the economics simply no longer made sense.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 13, 2008.

Nieporent told Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer (see the Aug. 8 Between Meals blog posting on sfgate.com/food) that he had been running Rubicon (558 Sacramento St., near Montgomery) without a lease for the last two years, and that the economics simply no longer made sense.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 12, 2008.

While the first incident is developing, a second event will occur at 1 Post St., Talmadge said.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on August 11, 2008.

That's where today's FiDi happy hour-with-free-grub comes in: Italian spot Palio D'Asti (640 Sacramento at Montgomery) is doing a free pizza with the purchase of two drinks from the bar during happy hour -- Monday through Friday 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Details here. And don't forget to bring along a stogie to puff.

Published by SF Weekly on August 11, 2008.

Above, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are marching mad downtown. This afternoon the SEIU has at least two blocks worth of protesters walking through the Financial District/downtown. Chants in English and Spanish can be heard - with the most popular one being "no contract, no peace." Image above is looking East on Market with New Montgomery and Second Streets visible to the right and center, respectively.

Published by SFist on August 7, 2008.

It's a plan to close the northbound lanes of four and a half miles of San Francisco roadways from the Bayview district to Chinatown on two Sunday mornings.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 6, 2008.

The city will close a four-and-a-half mile stretch of the Embarcadero and Third street from Chinatown to the Bayview district on August 31st and again on September 14th.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on August 5, 2008.

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Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 1, 2008.

If you work in the Financial District, chances are you've reached the end of your rope more than once when it comes to lunch options: falafel, soup, sandwich, burrito -- and repeat, ad infinitum. But don't forget that the Ferry Building is really only a few blocks away, and while there's enough precious, high-priced foodstuffs to choke a gourmand over there, there are also excellent, healthy routine-busters like the Lunch Hour Chef Series.

Published by SF Weekly on July 31, 2008.

Leaders have put some controversial ideas on the table in order to get things moving. The first is establishing tolls. The city would charge drivers about $1.50 electronically for entering areas like Civic Center, SOMA, and the financial district during commute hours.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on July 30, 2008.

The outage occurred at about 8:30 a.m. and was caused by an underground cable failure, said PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi. At the time, smoke was reported coming out of a manhole cover at First and Market streets, Guidi said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 27, 2008.

The stations scheduled to have the equipment replaced are Rockridge, MacArthur, 19th Street/Oakland, Oakland City Center/12th Street, West Oakland, Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, Civic Center, 16th Street Mission, 22nd Street Mission, Glen Park, Balboa Park, Daly City, and Lake Merritt.

Published by CBS News (Channel 5) on July 26, 2008.

The outage occurred at about 8:30 a.m. and was caused by an underground cable failure, said PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi. At the time, smoke was reported coming out of a manhole cover at First and Market streets, Guidi said.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 26, 2008.

Opponents were gathering Wednesday for a public debate over a controversial plan that would require drivers pay to use San Francisco's traffic-choked corridors in the Financial District, South of Market and elsewhere throughout the center core of the city.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on July 23, 2008.

After weeks of dangling from a wire over First Street in San Francisco, a dead pigeon has been taken down, much to the relief of ChronicleWatch readers who said the bird's story should have a humane ending. Workers at the California Mortgage Building, located between Mission and Market streets, used a ladder to get to the rock dove, hours after The Chronicle reported the pigeon's demise off a second-story ledge.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 20, 2008.

Workers at the California Mortgage Building, located between Mission and Market streets, used a ladder to get to the rock dove, hours after The Chronicle reported the pigeon's demise off a second-story ledge. End of story? Not really.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 20, 2008.

Last week, Gavin introduced plans to close down parts of the Embarcadero from the Bay View to Chinatown between from 9 AM to 1 PM on Aug. 31 and September 14 for some sort of car-free free free-for-all.

Published by SFist on July 18, 2008.

San Francisco scored an 86 out of 100, besting New York's 83 and Boston's 79. Seventeen of San Francisco's neighborhoods ranked 90 or above - considered a "walker's paradise" - including Chinatown, the Mission, Nob Hill and Haight-Ashbury.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 17, 2008.

Pigeons expire with a fair amount of regularity in the Bay Area, but this bird happened to have met its fate off the second-story ledge of a financial-services building, from where its body is dangling in the air by what looks like a wire. The building is located between Market and Mission streets, where thousands of people pass daily on their way to and from jobs in the Financial District.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 16, 2008.

Supporters hope Little Saigon will now join Japantown and Chinatown as must see destinations in San Francisco.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 16, 2008.

The building is located between Market and Mission streets, where thousands of people pass daily on their way to and from jobs in the Financial District.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 16, 2008.

Pigeons expire with a fair amount of regularity in the Bay Area, but this bird happened to have met its fate off the second-story ledge of a financial-services building, from where its body is dangling in the air by what looks like a wire. The building is located between Market and Mission streets, where thousands of people pass daily on their way to and from jobs in the Financial District.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on July 15, 2008.

In two separate incidents around 2 p.m., a 38-year-old Illinois man was stabbed at Jessie and First streets, and a 40-year-old San Francisco man was stabbed in the Montgomery Street Muni station, police reported.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on July 15, 2008.