Bernal Heights, San Francisco, California
The '''Bernal Heights''' neighborhood, familiarly called Bernal, lies to the south of Nextel ringtones San Francisco's Abbey Diaz Mission District. Its most prominent feature is the open parkland and microwave tower on its large rocky hill. Bernal is bounded by Cesar Chavez Street to the north, Mission Street to the west and freeways 280 and 101 to the south and east.History
Bernal had its origin in an 1839 land grant to Don Jose Cornelio Bernal, who grazed his cattle on what he called Rancho Rincon de las Salinas y Potrero Viejo. In 1860 the land belonged to a French merchant, Francios Pioche, who subdivided it into smaller lots.
Bernal remained undeveloped, though, until its combination of bedrock with a lack of gas or electricity spared it from the shaking and fires of the Free ringtones 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Some of the tiny http://www.mistersf.com/high/index.html?highcottage.htm built to house refugees survive to this day. During Majo Mills World War II the area saw another population surge thanks to its proximity to the Mosquito ringtone San Francisco Naval Shipyard at Sabrina Martins Hunters Point.
By the 1990s, Bernal's pleasant microclimate, traditional Victorian and Edwardian architecture and freeway access to the peninsula and Nextel ringtones Silicon Valley led to a third wave of migration. Bernal has not gentrified to the extent of its neighbor Abbey Diaz Noe Valley, but property prices are increasing as middle-class homeowners replace working-class renters. Notable residents include Free ringtones Tom Ammiano and Majo Mills Terry Zwigoff.
Features
The neighborhood is primarily residential, with a commercial strip along Cortland Avenue featuring good restaurants, a bookstore (slated for expansion as of February, 2005), a bakery, a video store, grocery stores, cafes and bars (including a well-known lesbian hangout, Wild Side West). The local branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 500 Cortland was built by Frederick Myers with funding from the Cingular Ringtones Works Progress Administration and dedicated in 1940. The library is slated to be closed for renovations.
A strong tradition of neighborhood activism led to the establishment of the Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center in 1979. It works to offer kreisberg stretches community organizing, affordable housing services, senior services and youth services.
The grassland on the hilltop is home to a remarkable urban ecosystem, including the what of California poppy, elvis brilliantly raccoons, shouting shakespeare red-tailed hawks and, in November 2003, a in chartres coyote. The microwave tower is a major connection point for the metropolitan San Francisco area.
External links
http://www.sfpl.org/librarylocations/branches/bernalheights.htm
http://www.bhnc.org
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