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The San Francisco Standard was originally Here/Say Media, a project of Civic Action Labs, a 501 (c)4 nonprofit. Some journalism ethicists were concerned about the organization's structure (nearly all nonprofit journalism organizations are 501 (c)3 nonprofits) and refusal to disclose its donors. [2] [3] In March 2021, Here/Say disclosed on its ...
Transamerica Pyramid. / 37.7952; -122.4028. The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. [ 5] Located at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the city's Financial District, it was the ...
San Francisco, California, in the United States, has at least 482 high-rises, [ 1 ] 58 of which are at least 400 feet (122 m) tall. The tallest building is Salesforce Tower, which rises 1,070 ft (330 m) and as of April 2023 [update] is the 17th-tallest building in the United States. [ 2 ] The city's second-tallest building is the Transamerica ...
Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe. Coordinates: 37.79766°N 122.40599°W. The outside of the bar in 2020. Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (also known as "Specs") is a historic bar, located in the North Beach district of San Francisco. The bar is known to be "home to a menagerie of misfits, from strippers and poets to longshoremen and merchant ...
The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last manually operated cable car system and an icon of the city of San Francisco.The system forms part of the intermodal urban transport network operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway, which also includes the separate E Embarcadero and F Market & Wharves heritage streetcar lines, and the Muni Metro modern light rail system.
Icons of San Francisco architecture include the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, Coit Tower, the Palace of Fine Arts, Lombard Street, Alamo Square, Fort Point, the Transamerica Pyramid, and Chinatown. [4] Included below are summaries of the historical significance of some of these great San Franciscan architectural achievements.
In 1967, the city of San Francisco, California, adopted Article 10 of the Planning Code, providing the city with the authority to designate and protect landmarks from inappropriate alterations. As of February 2019, the city has designated 288 structures or other properties as San Francisco Designated Landmarks. [1]
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. [ 3][ 4] It includes one of the longest bridge spans in the ...