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Embarcadero (San Francisco)
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The Embarcadero's Ferry Building
The Embarcadero is the name given the eastern waterfront roadway of the Port of San
Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay. It sits atop an engineered
seawall on filled land.
History
San Francisco's shoreline historically ran south and inland from Clarke's Point below
Telegraph Hill to present-day Montgomerey Street and eastward toward Rincon Point,
enclosing a cove named Yerba Buena Cove. As the city grew, the cove was filled. Over
fifty years a large offshore seawall was built and the mudflats filled, creating what today
is San Francisco's Financial District. The San Francisco Belt Railroad, a short line
railroad for freight, once ran along the Embarcadero.
During the early 20th century when the seaport was at its busiest and before the
construction of Bay Bridge, the plaza in front of the Ferry Building was one of the busiest
areas of foot traffic in the world; only Charing Cross Station in London and Grand
Central Station in New York City were busier. There was once a pedestrian footbridge
that connected Market Street directly with the Ferry building and a subterranean roadway
to move cars below the plaza. In the earliest days, a maze cable car tracks terminated