Parkside, San Francisco

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Parkside
Neighborhood
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Taraval Street and 16th Ave.
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Parkside
Location within San Francisco
Coordinates: 37°44′38″N122°29′31″W / 37.7440°N 122.4920°W / 37.7440; -122.4920
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of California.svg  California
City-county San Francisco
Government
   Supervisor Joel Engardio
   Assemblymember Phil Ting (D) [1]
   State senator Scott Wiener (D) [1]
   U. S. rep. Nancy Pelosi (D) [2]
Area
  Total2.76 km2 (1.066 sq mi)
Population
  Total16,874
  Density6,110/km2 (15,825/sq mi)
ZIP codes
94116
Area codes 415/628

The Parkside is a neighborhood in the western part of San Francisco, California. [3] It is located in the southern part of the Avenues south of Quintara and north of Sloat Boulevard.

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Also referred to as the "Parkside District," [3] the neighborhood includes the following parks: Parkside Square, Pine Lake, Pine Lake Park (a.k.a. Dog Park), Concert Meadow, Charlie Sava Pool (formerly Carl Larsen Pool), Carl Larsen Park, Stern Grove, McCoppin Park, and McCoppin Square.

Location

The Parkside as a neighborhood started in July 1905 when a syndicate led by William Crocker announced they had quietly bought land from the estate of Adolph Sutro and others to create a new million-dollar development. The "park" of Parkside was not Golden Gate Park, but rather the stand of trees and plants around Laguna Puerca (now called Pine Lake, and often called "Mud Lake" or "Crawdad Lake" by old-timers) [4] west of Sigmund Stern Grove.

The boundaries of the Parkside consist of Quintara Street on the north, Sloat Boulevard on the south, 36th Avenue/Sunset Boulevard on the west, and a diagonal eastern boundary line that abuts on the former Rancho San Miguel property, running from 12th Avenue on the north to 19th Avenue and Sloat on the south. [3] Later with more development to the west from Sloat Boulevard west to the ocean, east to Quintara and south to the San Francisco Zoo the Outer Parkside is also part of the Parkside District of San Francisco.

Parkside Elementary School (located at 25th Avenue and Vicente Street) was closed in 1975 and torn down in 2004. [5] In its place today stands Dianne Feinstein Elementary School at the Parkside Campus. Parkside Library is located at 22nd Avenue and Taraval.

Characteristics

The area is mostly residential, except for the commercial corridor on Taraval Street. Its buildings largely consist of almost identical "cookie-cutter" stucco houses with various decorative elements, which were constructed in the 1920s and 1930s, when assembly-line techniques entered building construction. [3] The L Taraval of the Muni Metro serves the neighborhood and provides a mode of transportation to downtown. Other transit lines include the 29 Sunset, 48 Quintara-24th Street, 66 Quintara, and 18 46th Avenue.

The Parkside branch of the San Francisco Public Library is also located in the area.

The Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove is known as the location of the Stern Grove Festival summer concerts.

The neighborhood is represented by District 4. The current District 4 supervisor is Joel Engardio.

Parkside's distinctive houses Houses on 36th Avenue in the Parkside District, September 2018.JPG
Parkside's distinctive houses

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References

  1. 1 2 "Statewide Database". UC Regents. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  2. "California's 11th Congressional District - Representatives & District Map". Civic Impulse, LLC.
  3. 1 2 3 4 LaBounty, Woody; Brandi, Richard (March 2008). "San Francisco's Parkside District: 1905 - 1957" (PDF). Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  4. LaBounty, Woody (July 2005). "Parkside District". Western Neighborhoods Project. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  5. "Parkside School". Western Neighborhoods Project. November 2007. Retrieved 2013-02-26.


37°44′38″N122°29′31″W / 37.7440°N 122.4920°W / 37.7440; -122.4920