Shutterstock It’s not good-bye — we’re moving to a new home. For 14 years, Curbed SF has been obsessed with all things San Francisco. We covered the city’s biggest developments, including the opening of the Transbay Transit Center and the construction of the Salesforce Tower, and its biggest failures, including the homelessness crisis and continuing dearth of affordable housing. We provided daydream fodder by scoping out the most ridiculously priced homes in the country — like this one and this one and this one, too. We broadcast the coordinates of a home that once belonged to a pre–Socia ..read more

A lapis door adds color to the brown shingled home. | Photos courtesy of Mason-McDuffie Real Estate Better Homes and Gardens Complete with beamed ceilings, leaded windows, and a brick fireplace. Price: $629,000 Location: Elmwood District, Berkeley With the UC Berkeley main campus to the north and Clark Kerr Campus to the east, this compact home at 2527 College Avenue is near lots of student housing while also tucked away behind a larger house and surrounded by trees. One of three condos on the lot, the detached brown-shingled cottage sits between a mix of Shingle-, Arts and Crafts–, and C ..read more

AP It was made by Fascist ruler Mussolini’s bodyguard and official sculptor. Christopher Columbus never stepped foot on what is today the United States. He never visited California or sailed the Pacific Ocean. And he didn’t discover America in 1492. But that hasn’t stopped American cities, including San Francisco, from erecting statues honoring the genocidal explorer. After decades of protests, the city quietly removed the bronze monument from its plinth on Telegraph Hill and put him into hiding. All it took was the threat of a protest that never happened. On Thursday, Mayor London Breed order ..read more

The Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco. | Brock Keeling My No. 1 spot. Dancing at the Stud. Helping my mom trim back the mint in her garden. Getting a bear hug from a pal during my Saturday movie nights. These are things I miss while most businesses remain closed and social-distancing guidelines are in effect because of the pandemic. One of the things I didn’t realize how much I loved until it was gone: the luxe bathroom hidden inside the Four Seasons. I felt its absence during my regular Saturday-morning walk through the wasteland that is now San Francisco, tumbleweeds rolling through its empty ..read more

Skateboarders riding down Market Street during the protest. | AP “Being black is not a crime.” On Thursday, a handful of skaters climbed Twin Peaks — the second-highest hill in S.F., with a curvy street perfect for skating — and plunged, from its apex, down Market Street and then onward toward the Embarcadero. It was part of Bomb Hills 4 Black Lives, a mass shred to draw attention to racism within the skating community. Inspired by global Black Lives Matter protests and recent callouts of racism in industries ranging from food to media, co-organizer Re N had the idea to hold a skaters roll, br ..read more

Women walk past murals painted on boarded-up storefronts in downtown Oakland. | Photo by Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images Plywood lining U.S. city streets is the backdrop for an urgent era of civic art. It started out simple enough: “We’re all in this together”; “Please practice social distancing”; “Bodies apart — hearts together.” Shortly after stay-at-home orders went into effect in March, artists, with the permission of business owners, used boarded-up storefronts as canvases for murals nodding to the coronavirus pandemic. Some were decorated with floral motifs ..read more

Photo by shutterstock Encore? On Friday, the Golden Gate Bridge doubled as a musical instrument as wind passed through its hallowed arches, resulting in a creepy and ghostly tune heard for miles. “Can someone explain me why is this eerie sound has been going on for an hour in #SanFrancisco,” Alberto Martinez A tweeted from the Presidio. The reason for the chilling aria? Wind vibrating against new sidewalk railing slats installed along the span’s bike path. “The new musical tones coming from the bridge are a known and inevitable phenomenon that stem from our wind retrofit during very high winds ..read more

Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images “This is a concrete, bold, and immediate step towards true reparations for black people,” says Supervisor Shamann Walton. In response to persistent police brutality, highlighted most recently by the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers, San Francisco mayor London Breed announced an effort to funnel funding away from the city’s police department and toward the black community, which experiences poverty at three times the average rate. “Decades of disinvestment and racially disparate policies have disproportionat ..read more

Marchers walk peacefully along the Great Highway next to Ocean Beach. | Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images Unprecedented curfew comes to an abrupt halt Following widespread protests against police brutality and systemic racism following the killing of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police officers, cities across the country, including San Francisco, were placed under a curfew. However, by 5 a.m. Thursday, March 4, San Francisco’s curfew will be lifted. “Starting tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. we will be lifting the curfew in San Francisco,” said Mayor Lon ..read more

Getty Images But how long will it last? After years of people bemoaning the state of San Francisco, a city stifled by skyrocketing rent prices and overrun by tech-worker drones decked out in matching Patagonia vests, new data suggests that change could be coming. Zumper, the San Francisco–based apartment-rental site, just released its latest rent figures and, according to CEO Anthemos Georgiades, the “price drops are unprecedented” in the seven-plus years the company has published rent reports. “All this talk of people leaving SF for a future of remote work is now backed up by hard data.” Geor ..read more