The current library, which is located across the street at 2000 Mason St., will remain open until the new library is built. The old library would be knocked down and become part of an adjacent public park.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 5, 2008.

...an endorsement of the plan, which would create an 8,500-square foot library at 701 Lombard St. with adult, children's and teen services on the ground floor and a community meeting...

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on September 5, 2008.

Purchased for $633,000 in October of 2005, this Telegraph Hill single-family "cottage" failed to find a buyer when it was listed for $779,000 eighteen months ago. Back on the market in 2008. And now asking $629,000.

Published by SocketSite on September 2, 2008.

"A faction of North Beach neighbors may oppose plans to close a section of Mason Street to build a new library and park, but it is not the only potential street closure locals have up their sleeves.

Published by SocketSite on September 2, 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.

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.

Cyclists will do laps around the Levi Strauss Plaza area. They will start at Battery and Union Streets and then move along Green, Front, Vallejo and Sansome.

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) 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.

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.

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.

(Locations at 120 Sansome, 475 Sansome and 560 Mission; visit mixtgreens.com.)

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.

While it might be infinitely more reasonable to sleep for as long as possible on Labor Day, we plan instead to be standing at the corner of Union and Battery at 8:00 a.m. for the start of the Metromint Giro di San Francisco.

Published by SFist 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.

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.

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.

818 Green Street

Published by ABC News (Channel 7) on August 29, 2008.

...18th Street), Powerhouse (1347 Folsom Street), Stray Bar (369 Cortland Avenue), Tony Nik's Cafe (1534 Stockton Street), Truck (1900 Folsom Street), Twin Peaks (401 Castro Street), Underground SF (424 Haight Street), and...

Published by SFist on August 28, 2008.

San Francisco's Fire Commission today unanimously rejected a tentative settlement with the parents of a Seattle man who plunged to his death from a Nob Hill rooftop in 2006 during a rescue attempt by a city fire lieutenant.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 28, 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.

The event will start at Third and Oakldale streets, prompting the closure of northbound Third Street to northbound Embarcadero, all the way to Washington and Kearny streets with passages and detours for traffic along the way.

Published by KTVU News (Channel 2) on August 28, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

...Brien's Zinnia, scheduled to open in mid-October in the former Scott Howard location (500 Jackson St.) in San Francisco, is starting to take shape. Michael Guthrie & Co., who designed Myth, will...

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 20, 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.

...Brien's Zinnia, scheduled to open in mid-October in the former Scott Howard location (500 Jackson St.) in San Francisco, is starting to take shape. Michael Guthrie & Co., who designed Myth, will...

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.

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is counting the cash after a very lucrative stop in San Francisco Sunday.Obama attended a dinner and reception at the Fairmont Hotel where the campaign collected nearly $8 million dollars in just a few hours, they said.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) on August 18, 2008.

Sen. Barack Obama was slated to make at appearance at a fundraiser held at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel Sunday, according to a press release issued by his campaign.The fundraiser, the press release said, will mark Obama's only Bay Area appearance before the Democratic Convention.

Published by NBC News (Channel 11) 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.

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.

Solari is among eight people killed in the area during the last four months, officials said at a news conference held on Mission Street Tuesday morning. He was driving with his two young sons in the car when police believe he got into an altercation with another motorist near Alemany Boulevard and soon after was fatally shot in rush-hour traffic on the freeway. His sons were not injured.

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 13, 2008.

Gerard Hirigoyen, Piperade, 1015 Battery St., San Francisco; (415) 391-2555. Bocadillos, 710 Montgomery St., San Francisco; (415) 982-2622.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 13, 2008.

Gerard Hirigoyen, Piperade, 1015 Battery St., San Francisco; (415) 391-2555. Bocadillos, 710 Montgomery St., San Francisco; (415) 982-2622.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 13, 2008.

Thomas Keller, French Laundry, 6640 Washington St., Yountville; (707) 944-2380. Per Se, 10 Columbus Circle, New York; (212) 823-9335.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 13, 2008.

Solari is among eight people killed in the area during the last four months, officials said at a news conference held on Mission Street Tuesday morning. He was driving with his two young sons in the car when police believe he got into an altercation with another motorist near Alemany Boulevard and soon after was fatally shot in rush-hour traffic on the freeway. His sons were not injured.

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.

Thomas Keller, French Laundry, 6640 Washington St., Yountville; (707) 944-2380. Per Se, 10 Columbus Circle, New York; (212) 823-9335.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 12, 2008.

Gerard Hirigoyen, Piperade, 1015 Battery St., San Francisco; (415) 391-2555. Bocadillos, 710 Montgomery St., San Francisco; (415) 982-2622.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 12, 2008.

Gerard Hirigoyen, Piperade, 1015 Battery St., San Francisco; (415) 391-2555. Bocadillos, 710 Montgomery St., San Francisco; (415) 982-2622.

Published by San Francisco Chronicle on August 12, 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.

...expansive visual perspective. The exhibit runs through October 4th, 2008. Polarity Post Productions is at 69 Green St. (at Battery). More information at www.artworksf.com...

Published by Mission Dispatch on August 9, 2008.

...August 23, from 8 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Li Po is at 916 Grant (at Washington), San Francisco. This is a basement event, and the cover is $3 at...

Published by Mission Dispatch on August 9, 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.