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Glen Park in the Times

MISS JO WAS SURE TICKLED TO SEE THE OLD GRAY LADY TODAY WRITING ABOUT HER SAN FRANCISCO ‘HOOD, Glen Park, and its neighbor, Bernal Heights.

Diamond & Chenery Miss Jo San Francisco “Seeing San Francisco from a Different Angle” appears in the New York Times’ Friday “Escape” section, and hits the highlights of two of the City’s outlying districts.

It’s true. Glen Park and Bernal Heights are charming, but not storybook, which might be the article’s only omission.

Like elsewhere in SF, real estate prices in both neighborhoods are through the roof, and even, one-room 1906 earthquake shacks sell in the high six figures.

There was also no mention of last fall’s spate of crime, like the stabbing of Paul Park and robbery of his Glen Park hills miss jo san franciscoBuddies’ Market in the Glen Park village, or the several robberies at gunpoint of commuters walking home at dusk along GP’s winding, steep hills. Although there have been no arrests, the mayhem was short-lived, as was Glen Park being labeled in the SF Chronicle as a thug hub at a tipping point.

Otherwise, when urban realities aren’t intruding, Glen Park– like many of SF’s neighborhoods, which rarely get mentioned amid all that’s written about San Francisco—  has all the hallmarks of a small town.

Bird & Beckett Books Miss Jo San Francisco

Of course Glen Canyon Park got a mention in the Times, as did Tyger’s coffee shop, Beckett’s Books and Le P’tit Laurent Bistro Français, where Jeff is playing piano Glen Canyon summer miss jo san franciscoNew Year’s Eve with the fellas of SF blues and jazz band Bohemian Knuckleboogie. For some reason, that detail was also omitted from the Times. ;) Photos of Glen Park by Miss Jo

7 Comments

  1. Posted November 29, 2009 at 3:27 pm | #

    Ah, you probably spotted some of GP’s young fashionable hipsters !….GP is worth visiting…The neighborhood village is great for breakfast. Besides Tyger’s waffles, the crepes @ Higher Grounds across the street on Chenery are excellent. Glen Canyon also is so close and accessible. I hike through it to get to Safeway @ Diamond Heights !

  2. Posted November 29, 2009 at 2:34 pm | #

    Glen Park has only been a BART stop for me. I’m always intrigued, though, by those who get off and on. They are always so fashionably dressed. Someday I will have to get off and take a look around.

  3. Posted November 29, 2009 at 11:48 am | #

    Thanks KS for stopping by my blog. Hey, always gotta tell the other side of the story !

  4. KSWhite
    Posted November 29, 2009 at 9:11 am | #

    Way to add flesh and blood to the charming bones of the NYTimes’ take on the hood. The inside scoop + real deal = Miss Jo’s San Fran.
    ……..and your photos are always stunning.

  5. Posted November 28, 2009 at 6:07 pm | #

    What an interesting article. And these snaps of yours are quite Superior. Have to say, though, that the hills make me a tad dizzy…

  6. Posted November 28, 2009 at 12:25 pm | #

    Glen Park is our third SF neighborhood, and by far the best. But I was a little too charmed by the article and this morning added some reality to this post— crime in the neighborhood, not mentioned in the Times.

  7. Posted November 28, 2009 at 3:03 am | #

    NY Times? That’s some serious ink. I read the article and the writer seemed very charmed by your neighborhood. I have heard of it, but never been there.

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