Monthly Archives: December 2008

Contemporary Jewish Museum Offers Free Admission on December 25th

Join the Contemporary Jewish Museum on December 25 for their Free Target Family Day! Celebrate our first Hanukkah in our new Museum! Celebrate Hanukkah and festivals of light from around the world at the only museum in San Francisco open on Christmas day. Roll up your sleeves and create holiday artwork, explore the Museum’s exhibitions,… Keep reading

New Year's Goals – Get Prepared for the Next Big Earthquake

While you consider goals for 2009, may I suggest that you add to your list attending the six free training sessions offered by the San Francisco Fire Department to help you and your family become more prepared for the next big earthquake? I highly recommend this training to all San Franciscans. We are lucky to… Keep reading

Casual Carpool Pick-Up to Relocate to West Side of Beale Street

Not that this really affects too many Rincon Hill residents, but it might affect which lanes you choose to drive in along Beale if you drive during commute hours. Riders, Drivers Commuting to East Bay Must Use Other Side of Street Beginning Monday, December 22nd Due to Construction of Transbay Temporary Bus Terminal WHAT: Beginning… Keep reading

Spear Street's Widened Sidewalk Partially Open for Use

The sidewalk project on Spear Street between Folsom and Harrison provides us with our first glimpse of the widened sidewalks planned for the Rincon Hill neighborhood’s Spear, Main, and Beale streets from Bryant all the way up to Market Street. I’m excited to let you know (in case you haven’t already discovered) that you can… Keep reading

Guy Place Mini Park Meeting Notes 12/17/2008

Wow – there are some very neat plans based on community input at the first two public meetings for the Guy Place mini park. Marvin Yee and others listened to some additional input this evening, but I believe we all agreed that it was a very nice plan for the relatively small space (50 feet… Keep reading

Final Public Meeting to Review Plans for New Mini Park on Guy Place

Although the holiday parties are coming fast and furious, you may want to take advantage of the last opportunity to comment on the new mini park on Guy Place. The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department is hosting the final public meeting to review the community-preferred conceptual plan for a new mini park in the… Keep reading

Glimpse of What North Side of Rincon Hill Neighborhood Will Look Like in 7-10 Years

There’s a posting at SocketSite that contains a video showing the Transbay Transit Center and other portions of what the Rincon Hill neighborhood may look like in 2015 and later … Visit Socketsite to get “plugged in” to this simulation. Keep reading

Rincon Hill Neighbor's Episode of Secret Millionaire

God bless the Internet! Although I totally missed our neighbor’s episode of Secret Millionaire the other night because I was stuck in a meeting in the City of Laguna Niguel until 7pm and had a later flight home, Hulu.com offers me (and all y’all) a second (or third, fourth, etc.) chance to see it. Another… Keep reading

Musical Fix for your Rainy Sunday

Although I did wander out in the rain to have a breakfast at Red’s Java House this morning, the crummy weather has left me surfing for new music artists. I came across a guy I’ve never heard of before in my meandering through iTunes, and he happens to be based in San Francisco. The artist’s… Keep reading

Contacts for Questions from Tuesday's Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association Meeting

**Updated 10:52 p.m. on 12/17/2008 We had a fabulous turnout at our Rincon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting this evening. We also had a very packed agenda with information rich presentations. In order to wrap up the meeting somewhat near the intended stop time (7:30 p.m., but we wrapped up closer to 7:50 p.m.), I had… Keep reading

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