San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia

neighborhoods such as Japantown, The Fillmore, Hayes Valley, Lower Pacific Heights,
North Panhandle, Cathedral Hill, Alamo Square, and Anza Vista.
After the Second World War, the Western Addition---particularly the Fillmore District---
became a population base and a cultural center for San Francisco's African American
community. Since then, urban renewal schemes and San Francisco's changing
demographics have led to major changes in the economic and ethnic makeup of the
neighborhood, as the Fillmore District suffered from crime and poverty while many other
districts underwent significant gentrification. Today, many areas of the neighborhood are
again solidly middle-class.
The Central Freeway used to run through the neighborhood to Turk Street, but that
section of the freeway was closed immediately after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
and later demolished.
External links
San Francisco Muni Map showing the location of the Western Addition and smaller subneighborhoods
(when zoomed in).
West Portal, San Francisco, California
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Portal is a principal shopping street for much of southwestern San Francisco,
California, and is also considered a neighborhood itself. Named for the western terminus
of the Muni tunnel beneath Twin Peaks that opened in 1918, the street (West Portal
Avenue) and adjacent district is still dominated by the frequent trundlings of the three
Muni Metro lines (K, L and M) that emerge from the subway to run in the street median.
The ride in the subway from West Portal to downtown/Union Square is about fifteen
minutes.
West Portal lies directly adjacent to several larger San Francisco neighborhoods: the
affluent and lushly verdant Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood neighborhoods on the east
and south, Parkside (a southern sub-district of the Sunset District) on the north, and at the
western end of the Avenue, Lakeshore Village and Merced Manor. The residential areas
of the West Portal neighborhood, like several of the adjacent districts, are unusual for San
Francisco in that the homes are often detached, albeit with small yards. The frequent fog
helps keep the area green in the usually rainless summer months, and on a clear day, a
view from the park above the tunnel can be had of the Marin Headlands and the Farallon
Islands in the Pacific.