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By  Murray Schneider The PG&E substation at Rousseau at Bosworth Streets is undergoing a facelift. Originally constructed in 1935 and until recently situated adjacent to the defunct Ray Oil Burner Company at 1301 San Jose Avenue, Substation M is undergoing a significant upgrade. The safety and reliability makeover, which begins in mid-April and is scheduled […]

Forwarded from Paul Matalucci, Project Coordinator, of the Diamond Heights Boulevard Beautification Project. RSVP to him paul@wordwc.com, if you would like to participate, or have questions. Diamond Heights Blvd. Median Beautification Day Date: Saturday, April 29 Time: 9:00 to 12:00 noon Location: Meet at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, Parish Hall (Lower Level) Refreshments: Coffee, tea, […]

Trendy bars and restaurants have come and gone in the dozen or so years since Glen Park has become a well known and highly desirable neighborhood in San Francisco. One stalwart constant in the Glen Park village since 1926 has been the Glen Park Station bar. That was the year the building was moved from […]

Forwarded from SF Rec and Park Department San Francisco Public Works is moving forward as planned with the second phase of Twin Peaks Boulevard repaving. The paving work includes the portion of the “Figure 8” that is currently closed to motorists as part of SFMTA’s pilot road closure. This work—and road closures and rerouting—is proceeding […]

Bird and Beckett Books and Records is going to have its “2nd Annual Backyard Benefit Bash for Bird and Beckett” Saturday, May 13, from 1 to 5 p.m. The afternoon event will be hosted by Jerry Ferraz at his home in the outer Mission District, 3639 Mission Street (near Highland Avenue). There will be plenty of music […]

..An update and good reminder has been posted on Nextdoor: “We have made the finals of this SF Parks Alliance grant choosing process! Now it’s up to YOU! PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO VOTE NOW: http://sfpa.convio.net/site/News2?page=N… DEADLINE FOR YOUR VOTE IS FRI 4/21. The Glen Park Greenway Committee has applied for a grant to install […]

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 12:20pm     1300 Blk Bosworth                          Robbery Officers Peralta and Williams responded to a report of a robbery.  Sergeants Anderson and Dalton also responded.  The victim sustained an injury during the incident and was bleeding from the left eye.  Medics were summoned to the scene.  The victim told the officers that she was walking on a trail with two […]

The SF Parks Alliance will be choosing one lucky parks group to receive a “People’s Choice” Action Grant! Cast your vote for the Glen Park Greenway! Go to: http://sfpa.convio.net/site/News2;jsessi… Click on Glen Park Greenway (read description of project), scroll down to green button and VOTE!

Photos by Bonnee Waldstein Early this morning, the Glen Park Station was packed. People were celebrating the life of Tom Coulter who, along with Rene Lacore, was co-owner of the Glen Park Station bar. Coulter was 72 and died of pneumonia and a blood infection on March 30. A special celebration was held at the […]

Don’t forget to attend the neighborhood’s annual party on Sunday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.! Click the festival website to learn more. More than great food and interesting art, the Glen Park Festival raises money for children’s programs based in Glen Park. In 2014, the festival donated more than $25,000 to fund equipment, field […]

Although one of Glen Park’s great horned owl died last year, this year a new family has taken up residence in the Canyon and has hatched at least one owlet. Due to the construction on the Rec Center, the owls appear to have moved their nest away from the one they’ve been using for several years along […]

The next Ingleside Community meeting will be held in the Ingleside Police Station Community room on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 7p.m.  There will be light refreshments available to those who come to the meeting.  All are welcome to attend. Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Nothing in the report from Glen Park   Monday, April 3, […]

Some corrections and clarifications were made to the item on beekeeping in the Notes posted below. They are in bold type.

 Photos by Bonnee Waldstein The quarterly meeting of the Glen Park Association, on April 6 at St. John School, focused on updating the community on two major ongoing projects, as well as a presentation on the proposed rate increase by Recology — plus a surprise ending. New Glen Park Association President Scott Stawicki presiding GREENWAY […]

Essay and photos by Jemison Beshears One of the joys of walking through the streets of Glen Park is seeing all the houses in their wild variety and wondering what stories they might disclose if you only had a guide to tell them. Here, Jemison Beshears, a 32-year resident of Melrose Avenue, which runs just a few short […]

A two alarm fire broke out on the 100 block of Randall Street Thursday morning. All the humans and pets got out and thankfully no one was seriously injured, but there was heavy smoke and fire billowing from the upstairs window as fire trucks arrived, said neighbor Jan Bender. Fire fighters quickly put out the […]

Crime in Glen Park reported in the Ingleside Newsletter   Monday, March 13, 2017 06:00pm           200 Blk Baden        Stolen Vehicle   Sunday, March 12, 2017 04:51pm           100 Blk Laidley          Burglary   Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:44am     600 Blk. Chenery         Malicious Mischief Vandalism A […]

Forwarded from Friends of the Urban Forest: We’ve been doing some canvassing and email blasts to previous tree planters in the neighborhood but need your help to wrangle up more applications so that we can plant the trees this May. If you can help, please contact me at 415-268-0773 or email jasmine@fuf.net today.   The […]

District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy will hold neighborhood office hours on Friday, March 24, at Higher Grounds coffee house, 691 Chenery St., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come meet with our neighborhood supervisor to discuss ideas and concerns.

District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy will hold neighborhood office hours on Friday, March 24, at Higher Grounds coffee house, 691 Chenery St., 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Come meet with our neighborhood supervisor to discuss ideas and concerns.

By Murray Schneider Catherine Symon and her daughter, Natalie, experienced a unique event on January 24, as they left Glen Canyon’s Glenridge Nursery School. After school was dismissed, Symon accompanied four-year old Natalie along a path paralleling Alms Road, a path they’ve taken eight times a week for two years. “I heard a rustling of […]

Saturday, March 18, 2017 10:00am to 12:30pm Join California Academy of Sciences arachnologist Darrell Ubick for a springtime trip in search of spiders. They are abundant in Glen Canyon Park—probably hundreds of thousands of individuals representing hundreds of species. We are sure to see a variety since Darrell knows where to look and how to […]

Free Book Reading Saturday, March 4, 3 pm at St. Aidan’s, 101 Gold Mine Drive Glen Park Author Louise Nayer talks about her book, Burned: A Memoir A creative writing instructor for more than 40 years and the author of four books, Louise Nayer will talk about the art of creating a memoir and read excerpts from Burned. […]

Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) is organizing a tree planting in Glen Park on May 13. Apply by March 29. Planting costs a minimum of $135 and includes: A free site-inspection Tree species selection Concrete removal Tree and volunteers for tree planting 5 years of tree visits Interested? Contact FUF’s community outreach manager, Jasmine […]

By Murray Schneider A huge chunk of Franciscan chert rock plummeted from the eastern slopes of Glen Canyon to Alms Road sometime between February 15 and February 22. The ominous-looking boulder greeted a group of volunteers from Friends of Glen Canyon Park as they made their way along the fire road, destined for thickets of […]

Marion Dalere, of Dalere’s Beauty Salon at 660 Chenery Street, caught this photo of a rainbow over Glen Park during her lunch break on Tuesday.

By Murray Schneider As we walk through our neighborhood, the inordinate amount of work necessary to keep our streets and bits of greenery as lovely as they are isn’t always apparent. Take, for example, the Greenway that runs parallel to Bosworth Street. Casual strollers don’t see the many hours of work, both physical labor as […]

by Bonnee Waldstein With the uptick in vehicular crime in Glen Park, particularly breakins, many concerned residents are gathering together to brainstorm the issues and solutions.  Captain McFadden of the Ingleside Station holds regular monthly community meetings that alternate between the Ingleside police station near Balboa Park, and neighborhoods within its jurisdiction. There are about […]

A Glen Park neighbor caught this on their camera this past week. It shows a thief calmly walking past all the cars on the block and using a flashlight to see if anything was visible to steal. This occurred at 3:33 am. One of the cars in the block got broken by the thief, though it happens […]

Recology has applied to raise the rates for trash/recycling/compost pick-up. There will be a “Technical Hearing” February 28, from 4 to 6 p.m., Room 421 at City Hall, at which they will explain why they want to raise the fees, followed by a number of public hearings to receive feedback. Public hearing dates are listed below in […]

Forwarded from GP NERT: Glen Park NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is having its first quarterly meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Glen Park library. Please join us for a discussion about our mapping project and to participate in an emergency preparedness table top exercise. Date: Wed, January 25, […]

Friday, January 20, 2017 Harvey Steiman was talking through Glen Canyon Park on Friday when he saw this in the ball field facing Elk St. When he asked one of the workers what was going on, he was told “they had discovered a leak in ‘the sewer.’” Further questioning revealed that the culvert that Islais […]

According to the Department of Public Works, crews reopened O’Shaughnessy Boulevard shortly after 10 p.m Thursday after completing a “rockslide mitigation safety project” to shore up the crumbling hillside. They will finish tidying up today. A rock slide closed the road Wednesday.  

To celebrate the Glen Park Association Website turning ten years old, we are reposting some of our favorite stories from the last ten years. Hank Greenwald sat at Destination Bakery, nursing a cup of hot chocolate, reminiscing about a broadcast career that witnessed him announce 2,798 consecutive San Francisco Giants games before he retired in […]

The SF Municipal Transportation Agency will not be asking neighbors to vote on alternatives presented at aNov. 30 community meeting. Instead, the agency decided to proceed with a modified version of proposal A, seen about halfway through this slide presentation. SFMTA has promised to publicize the final proposal and the date for a public hearing.

Forwarded from SF DBI: As of January 1, 2017, new applicable Building, Existing Building, Historical Building, Plumbing, Mechanical, Electrical, Green Building and Energy Codes are in effect. Every three years, DBI updates its building code standards to follow California State Building Code standards. Through this process, DBI ensures the safe construction and alteration of San Francisco’s more than 200,000 […]

Forwarded from GP NERT: Glen Park NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) is having its first quarterly meeting of 2017 on Wednesday, January 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the Glen Park library. Please join us for a discussion about our mapping project and to participate in an emergency preparedness table top exercise. Date: Wed, January 25, […]

Word on the street is that this afternoon Mayor Lee will announce HIV/AIDS activist Jeff Sheehy to be our District 8 supervisor, vacated by Scott Wiener who has moved on to the state Senate. Sheehy, a Glen Park resident and public school parent, is the director of communications for the UCSF AIDS Research Institute. He […]

The Greenway between Lippard and Chilton,  9 am to 12 pm. Meet on the Greenway between Lippard and Chilton streets (last time, we did the stretch between Brompton and Lippard). We’ll celebrate and get to know each other over a lunch time community potluck. You should bring: * A salad, dessert, casserole or finger food […]

Dec. 12, 2016. By Gail Bensinger After several weeks of cleaning, building and rearranging, Glen Park Hardware is once again open for business. New owner Aaron Esquivel and his hard-working crew are holding a “soft” opening as they wait for new stocks to arrive. They have opened up the back room, used as a storeroom by […]

Story and photos by Murray Schneider Want to know if the winter will be mild or severe, or if the December rains will continue into April. You need go no farther then Glen Canyon’s boardwalk, which transverses a natural seep only a few yards north of Glenridge Nursery School. That’s what four Friends of Glen […]