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UPDATE: Upon inspection by the contractor this morning, it has been determined that the installation of cable service by Comcast, for the apartment above, was the cause of the facade crumbling. Glen Park News’ Susan Sutton reports that pieces of the building Critter Fritters occupies at 670 Chenery Street  have fallen onto Chenery. The pet store supply store’s manager says […]

  Story and photos by Murray Schneider Every neighborhood once had such a place, a safe place — the corner pharmacy, a five and dime, a dry cleaner, a diner. From the 1930s through the early 1990s, Constantine and Rose Portale’s Chenery Street Groceteria served Glen Park families as such a sanctuary. “Connie and Rose […]

Story and photos Murray Schneider Dia de los Muertos, the pre-Columbian Mexican festival celebrating those who have left us, came to Glen Park for seven days in the form of a dozen ofrendas, offerings created by relatives and friends that remember departed loved ones From November 1 through Noveber 8, Chenery Street’s Modernpast hosted the […]

Glen Park Greenway; Planning Workshop #3 – November 19 Greetings – The final planning workshop for the Glen Park Greenway Concept Plan will be on Thursday, November 19, as detailed below. Also here is information about how you can join the members of the Glen Park Association (GPA) as we cast votes and decide about […]

Greetings to all you Conservatory gardeners and potential gardeners. Please join us and garden in the Sunnyside Conservatory between 8:00 AM and 11:30 PM on Saturday, November 21st. Don’t forget…we are grateful for any time you can spare to help out. Your efforts really make a difference. We will have coffee and something to munch […]

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Long ago, when I was 12-years old, I delivered the San Francisco Call Bulletin to Bobo Olson, the world middleweight boxing champion. After school, I’d bicycle along 34th Avenue between Judah […]

Christophe Pouchard  is a native of Binic, France but now lives in Glen Park. Here he’s catching up on his reading while visiting his hometown. Where else does the Glen Park News turn up?

Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting Date: October 22nd, 2015           Time: 7:00 PM Place: St. John School** Agenda Capt. McFadden from Ingleside Station will review current issues. Supervisor Scott Weiner will address recent area developments. Karen Mauney-Brodeck will report on progress on the Glen Park Recreation Center reconstruction. Election forum on Proposition F, the “Short Term Residential […]

Friday, October 2nd, 2015 07:00pm 100 Blk Monterey Battery Saturday, October 3rd, 2015 6:12am 30th/San Jose Att. Homicide w/gun A night on the town for two men almost turned deadly as they returned home. The two had just parked when an unknown assailant walked up to the truck holding a hand gun demanding their money. […]

Halloween Greetings to All. The time has come to consider pumpkins. To that end, the Friends of Sunnyside Conservatory would like to invite you to a free Pumpkin Carving at the Sunnyside Conservatory, on October 25th, from 2:00 PM till 5:00 PM.   Come and  create a master piece!  Please bring your own pumpkin(s).   We will provide […]

BART riders may have noticed the barrier being installed around thedown escalator at Glen Park Station. According to BART’s website, therepair is expected to take until January:http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2015/news20151007The Glen Park Association’s Transportation Committee has been in touchwith BART’s communications department. They tell us that the escalator” experienced a significant mechanical failure in the drive system.This requires […]

Monday, September 21st, 2015 09:00am 1100 Blk Bosworth Stolen Vehicle Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 09:00am Chenery/Congo [sic] Stolen Vehicle 12:55pm 600 Blk Arlington Recovered Vehicle 02:05pm Chenery/Brompton Stolen and Recovered Vehicle Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 12:55pm 200 Blk Roanoke Recovered Vehicle Thursday, September 24th, 2015 07:41am 200 Blk Roanoke Battery 11:30am 600 Blk Chenery Theft […]

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The Friends of Glen Canyon Park have intermittent help with their ongoing stewardship of the neighborhood’s 70-acre natural area. On September 14, 30 Gay for Good volunteers worked along side three Rec and Park’s Natural Areas Program gardeners, pushing back willow adjacent to Alms Road and pruning Himalayan blackberry on the last leg of the […]

Friday, September 11th, 2015 06:15am 500 Blk Arlington Burglary Saturday, September 12th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Sunday, September 13th, 2015 03:50pm Elk/Sussex Theft from Vehicle Monday, September 14th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Tuesday, September 15th, 2015 02:00pm Monterey/Baden Stolen Vehicle Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen […]

Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 7:00pm 500 Blk Chenery Vandalism Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 6:00pm 100 Blk Acadia Personation Friday, July 3rd, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Saturday, July 4th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Sunday, July 5th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Monday, July 6th, 2015 10:00pm Unit Blk […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider I didn’t know Jimmy Ryan all that well. I’d see him on the Fridays I dropped by Bird & Beckett, to catch his ensemble serving up bebop at the bookstore. On the second Friday of each month, Jimmy sat at the rear of Eric Whittington’s stage, leaning over his […]

By Janet Kessler San Francisco has several dozen coyotes living in the city, mostly in nuclear families. They’re in all of our major parks. Because most folks in San Francisco have dogs or cats, and because there are pups in some of the parks — pups would be about 4 months old now — it […]

Local photographer Anthony Powell found this fairy lair along the trail to Silver Tree in Glen Canyon Park. It’s up on the hill in the end of a fallen stump. There are two similar fairy doors in Golden Gate Park. There’s some speculation that a fairy clan has moved to San Francisco and that different families are […]

A note from Eric at Bird & Beckett… Bring letters for Paul’s landlord! And bring flowers or cookies or some such for Paul & Jennie Park! This Saturday (8/15) from 10 a.m. to noon, come by Buddies Market at the corner of Diamond & Chenery in Glen Park to let Paul and Jennie know that you’re in their corner. […]

A charming makeshift memorial to Cecil the Lion, found in the back of Glen Canyon below Touquoise Way on August 9, 2015.

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Fernando Aguilar took a minute or two to suit up on the former J. Eugene McAteer High School gridiron. The field, now home to the School Farm at the Academy of […]

Story and photos by Stephen Labovsky   Fish were trending in Glen Park Village this week. Fish? Yep, fish. On Monday, Critter Fritters had a new window display, and the theme was fish! Tony, Fritter’s manager, told me that one of his customers volunteered to design this whimsical window, called “Life In A Fish Bowl.” Across […]

A Quieter Future: a free public outreach conference on Community Noise and Natural Quiet that will take place at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco, August 10th, 8:30am-4pm. The conference will feature 12 different speakers​ from a variety of fields who will explain how noise negatively affects adults, children, birds & marine life, and discuss […]

Monday, June 15th, 2015 5:21pm Unit Blk Circular Recovered Vehicle 10:42pm 300 Blk Roanoke Warrant Tuesday, June 16th, 2015 3:00pm 300 Blk Joost Stolen Vehicle Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 12:31pm 200 Blk Whitney Recovered Vehicle Thursday, June 18th, 2015 9:26pm Bosworth/Elk Traffic Collision Friday, June 19th, 2015 10:30am 2800 Blk Diamond Recovered Vehicle 12:26pm 200 […]

A tree lost a limb that feel on a car on the 2500 block of Diamond Street on Aug. 2, 2015. While the car was damaged, no people were injured. Photo by Joseph Ong.

Story and photos by Murray Schneider On the Wednesday before the July 17-19 weekend —- before Volunteers for Outdoor California workers bivouacked in 35 tents by Glen Canyon’s Silver Tree Day Camp in preparation for three days of trail work —- Jenny Sotelo, Recreation and Park’s Natural Areas Program gardener, led five members of Friends of Glen […]

Glen Park Association Quarterly Meeting Date: July 16, 2015           Time: 7:00 PM Place: St. John School Gymnasium Agenda Capt. McFadden from Ingleside Station will review current issues Graffiti and Vandalism: Marianne Bertuccelli from San Francisco Recreation and Park Department The Gum Tree Girls: a history on the freeway revolt, presented by Zoanne Nordstrom and Joan Siewald A Brief […]

[Note for folks in Glen Park: Rec and Park is currently working to create a trail system that would be one nearly continuous greenbelt, makin git possible to walk from Mount Tustro over Twin Peaks and through Glen Park. See Murray Schneider’s article from 2013. Thus, this is a project that’s been much anticipated by Glen Park neighbors.] […]

Drummer Jimmy Ryan passed away Wednesday morning. He had suffered a heart attack on Monday, while on a hike with his wife Rory in a wilderness area near Monterey. Rory administered CPR and kept him alive until a medical team was able to hike in to them and carry him out to a hospital, but two days later […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Over a month ago construction workers departed Glen Canyon’s Banana Slug Way, which runs parallel to Alms Road and which leads to Silver Tree Day Camp. In their wake, they left lengthy retaining walls and yards of mesh-wire fencing above Islias Creek. As it turns out, though, on this […]

A collision on Tuesday between a car and a truck at Bosworth and Diamond in Glen Park caused no injuries, bystanders reported. The car was being driven by a woman on her way to the library. It was going east on Bosworth. The truck was heading west on Bosworth. Exactly what caused the accident is not known. The […]

More information has come in and it appears the accident on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 24 involved a single driver, an older man. He was taken to the hospital to be checked out but paramedics told neighbors on the scene that his injuries were minor. Unclear how exactly the car ended up on its side, though it’s […]

Story and photos by Stephen Labovsky GLEN PARK VILLAGE, June 16.  It’s 6:00pm, and Glen Park Station is jammed packed with fans awaiting the start of Game Six of the NBA Championship.  Meanwhile, a block away, at Bird & Beckett, Bloomsday, the annual, marathon reading of James Joyce’s masterpiece, “Ulysses” is already in progress. Travelling between […]

In the May 28 blog summary of the GPA’s transportation committee’s first meeting with SFMTA, traffic engineer Damon Curtis had promised to look into two things: –creating simultaneous protected lefts northbound and southbound on Diamond –switching the new protected northbound left on Diamond to be southbound in the evening to accommodate rush hour traffic Neither […]

Monday, May 4th, 2015 09:06pm Fairmount/Laidley Recovered Vehicle Tuesday, May 5th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 09:20am Kern/Diamond Theft from Vehicle Thursday, May 7th, 2015 Nothing to report from Glen Park. Friday, May 8th, 2015 10:00am Unit Blk Rousseau Hot Prowl Burglary A citizen getting dressed in the morning […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider You can take the girl out of the country, but not the country out of the girl, or so the saying goes. Such was the case with Amelia Leake, born in 1896 along the James River in Richmond, Virginia. Through her life, her family affectionately called her Angie. As […]

The Highland Street Bridge will be closed for about six months starting today as crews repair the crumbling bridge railings, according to DPW’s web page for the project http://sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1821 and the marvelous College Hill Neighborhood Association Highland Bridge: Closing 6/11 for 6 months (they mean it this time … really!)

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Bird & Beckett Books and Records threw a sweet sixteen-birthday party for itself on May 22, featuring a quintet of bookstore musicians very familiar to its jazz-loving Glen Park audiences. “Back in 1999 Chuck Peterson proposed the preposterous idea that we have jazz each Friday night,” said bookstore owner […]

Members of the GPA and GPMA are continuing to meet with SFMTA in response to concerns about street construction in the neighborhood. Tuesday’s meeting with traffic engineer Damon Curtis and project planner David Greenway gives us this update: 1. In response to community concerns, there will now be a “protected/permissive light” for northbound Diamond. (That […]

Thursday, April 23rd, 2015 03:00pm 800 Blk Chenery Hit and Run Friday, April 24th, 2015 11:40am 200 Blk 30th Burglary Saturday, April 25th, 2015 01:14am 100 Blk Mangels Recovered Vehicle 01:14am 100 Blk Mangels Warrant Arrest Sunday, April 26th, 2015 08:00pm 700 Blk Chenery Stolen License Plate Monday, April 27th, 2015 02:15am Unit Blk Miguel […]

The GPA transportation committee has been pressing hard on SFMTA to keep the neighborhood updated on the various projects affecting us and to hold the agency accountable in terms of deadlines and promises. See Hilary Schiraldi’s April 30 post regarding the last meeting with them, and another is coming up. We’ll keep you posted. Meanwhile, here’s […]

Although a couple of folks have wondered, given the big Application for Entertainment License sign in the window. Here’s the explanation, straight from Eric (oh, and feel free to write a letter on his behalf to the City once you’ve read it.) == Just back from City Hall! We’re turning 16, and getting our license to […]

The Glen Park Greenway Concept Plan – Linking the canyon to the village Come and help develop the Concept Plan for the Glen Park Greenway. We have a professional design team – all we need now is you and other neighbors, who are interested in the look and feel of our neighborhood, its footpaths, its […]

From SFMTA: Last week, our crews were able to pour half of the foundation on the northeast (formerly Citibank) corner. This week, we’re pouring the foundation on the remaining half of that corner.  Crews will also begin putting in the decorative brick band on this corner. Next week, we expect to be completing the brick […]

Karen Mauney-Brodek at RPD has shared this update on the Sussex Street steps:.   The Recreation and Park Department will proceed with rebuilding the steps at the entrance to Glen Canyon Park at the end of of Sussex Street. While RPD had expected to add this work to the contract for the other trails construction […]