[139] Between the years of 1990 and 2000, the number foreign born residents increased from 33% to nearly 40%,[139] During this same time period, the San Francisco Metropolitan area received 850,000 immigrants, ranking third in the United States after Los Angeles and New York. In total, 45% (342,693) of San Francisco's population spoke a language at home other than English. According to a 2014 quality of life survey of global cities, San Francisco has the highest quality of living of any U.S. The incident happened on the 600 block of Ashbury at around 12:30 p.m. San Francisco police said officers who responded to a call of gunshots arrived and met with a witness who said that a suspect exited a vehicle that pulled up to a parked vehicle broke into it. It was home to the first lesbian-rights organization in the United States, Daughters of Bilitis; the first openly gay person to run for public office in the United States, José Sarria; the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, Harvey Milk; the first openly lesbian judge appointed in the U.S., Mary C. Morgan; and the first transgender police commissioner, Theresa Sparks. Cable cars carry riders up steep inclines to the summit of Nob Hill, once the home of the city's business tycoons, and down to the waterfront tourist attractions of Fisherman's Wharf, and Pier 39, where many restaurants feature Dungeness crab from a still-active fishing industry. Raup, H. F. “The Delayed Discovery of San Francisco Bay.” California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. [100] Located near the city's southern border, the Excelsior District is one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco. [338] In 2011, SFO was the eighth-busiest airport in the U.S. and the 22nd-busiest in the world, handling over 40.9 million passengers.[339]. The city's sea of Victorian houses began to take shape, and civic leaders campaigned for a spacious public park, resulting in plans for Golden Gate Park. Larceny thefts, which include smash-and-grabs and shoplifting, are down 44%, presumably because there have been fewer tourists parking their cars in the city during the pandemic, and many stores have been closed due, police said. Founded in 1855, the University of San Francisco, a private Jesuit university located on Lone Mountain, is the oldest institution of higher education in San Francisco and one of the oldest universities established west of the Mississippi River. 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[15] With roughly one-quarter the population density of Manhattan, San Francisco is the second-most densely populated large American city, behind only New York City among cities greater than 200,000 population, and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, following only four of the five New York City boroughs. [323] Historically, trains operated by Southern Pacific Lines ran from San Francisco to Los Angeles, via Palo Alto and San Jose. So far this year, SFPD crime data shows that in the two districts that cover Golden Gate Park, the Park and Richmond Districts, burglaries increased a whopping 222%, robberies are up 74%,  and car thefts jumped 31%, compared with the same period last year. [49] San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856. [311] Founded in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute is the oldest art school west of the Mississippi. [262] The Warriors' arena, Chase Center, is located in San Francisco. These buses have quickly become a heated topic of debate within the city, as protesters claim they block bus lanes and delay public buses.[330]. U.S. Census Bureau. Rebuilding was rapid and performed on a grand scale. [151] Rejecting calls to completely remake the street grid, San Franciscans opted for speed. [158] In the 2019–2020 budget year, the city budgeted $368 million for homelessness services. San Francisco has a diversified service economy, with employment spread across a wide range of professional services, including financial services, tourism, and (increasingly) high technology. [312] The California College of the Arts, located north of Potrero Hill, has programs in architecture, fine arts, design, and writing. [55] By 1890, San Francisco's population approached 300,000, making it the eighth-largest city in the United States at the time. North of the Western Addition is Pacific Heights, an affluent neighborhood that features the homes built by wealthy San Franciscans in the wake of the 1906 earthquake. [74] Hippies flocked to Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, reaching a peak with the 1967 Summer of Love. [263] They have won six championships,[264] and made five consecutive NBA Finals from 2015 to 2019, winning three of them. [142] Annual bicycle counts conducted by the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) in 2010 showed the number of cyclists at 33 locations had increased 58% from the 2006 baseline counts. [214] In 2007, the city expanded its Medicaid and other indigent medical programs into the Healthy San Francisco program,[215] which subsidizes certain medical services for eligible residents. [307], San Francisco State University is part of the California State University system and is located near Lake Merced. [160], According to academic Rob Wilson, San Francisco is a global city, a status that pre-dated the city's popularity during the California Gold Rush. The law declared local authorities could not hold immigrants for immigration officials if they had no violent felonies on their records and did not currently face charges. [76] In the 1970s, the city became a center of the gay rights movement, with the emergence of The Castro as an urban gay village, the election of Harvey Milk to the Board of Supervisors, and his assassination, along with that of Mayor George Moscone, in 1978. In an effort to buoy small privately owned businesses in San Francisco and preserve the unique retail personality of the city, the Small Business Commission started a publicity campaign in 2004 to keep a larger share of retail dollars in the local economy,[185] and the Board of Supervisors has used the planning code to limit the neighborhoods where formula retail establishments can set up shop,[186] an effort affirmed by San Francisco voters. People then approached the suspect and a gunshot rang out, police said. These two districts are each sometimes further divided into two regions: the Outer Richmond and Outer Sunset can refer to the more western portions of their respective district and the Inner Richmond and Inner Sunset can refer to the more eastern portions. [48] The promise of great wealth was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Thruway service also runs south to San Luis Obispo with connection to the Pacific Surfliner. [335], Though located 13 miles (21 km) south of downtown in unincorporated San Mateo County, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is under the jurisdiction of the City and County of San Francisco. 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[citation needed] The Haight is now home to some expensive boutiques[96] and a few controversial chain stores,[97] although it still retains some bohemian character. VIDEO: Victim Foils Smash-and-Grab Robbery of Vehicle In San Francisco Golden Gate Park. "[200] The commodification of the Castro District has contributed to San Francisco's tourist economy. Pedestrian traffic is also widespread. Starting with the founding of the Sierra Club in 1892 to the establishment of the non-profit Friends of the Urban Forest in 1981, San Francisco has been at the forefront of many global discussions regarding the environment. [149] [127], According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, the largest religious groupings in San Francisco's metropolitan area are Christians (48%), followed by those of no religion (35%), Hindus (5%), Jews (3%), Buddhists (2%), Muslims (1%) and a variety of other religions have smaller followings. Herbert Eugene Bolton wrote about the expedition camp at Mountain Lake, near the southern end of today's Presidio: "Round about were grazing deer, and scattered here and there were the antlers of large elk. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and Bay Area Air Quality Management District are responsible for the operation with management provided by Motivate. Tourists also visit Pier 39, which offers dining, shopping, entertainment, and views of the bay, sun-bathing seals, and the famous Alcatraz Island. [172] Technology jobs accounted for just 1 percent of San Francisco's economy in 1990, growing to 4 percent in 2010 and an estimated 8 percent by the end of 2013. [325] Additionally, BART offers connections to San Francisco from Amtrak's stations in Emeryville, Oakland and Richmond, and Caltrain offers connections in San Jose and Santa Clara. The National Park Service separately administers the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park – a fleet of historic ships and waterfront property around Aquatic Park. O'Shaughnessy Employed as City Engineer", "A Just Peace? [225][226], San Francisco has long had an LGBT-friendly history. [156], 8,035 homeless people were counted in San Francisco's 2019 point-in-time street and shelter count. Together, these areas are known as The Avenues. [275] Lee (who won 2 elections to remain mayor) was temporarily replaced by San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed after he died on December 12, 2017. [58] More than three-quarters of the city lay in ruins, including almost all of the downtown core. [52], Entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush. The Presidio developed into the most important American military installation on the Pacific coast. [34] The explosion of jobs drew many people, especially African Americans from the South, to the area. [189], San Francisco became a hub for technological driven economic growth during the internet boom of the 1990s, and still holds an important position in the world city network today. [172][193] The city's frequent portrayal in music, film, and popular culture has made the city and its landmarks recognizable worldwide. The city's oldest radio station, KCBS, began as an experimental station in San Jose in 1909, before the beginning of commercial broadcasting. Mission Bay hosts the UCSF Medical Center, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, and Gladstone Institutes,[179] as well as more than 40 private-sector life sciences companies. The 5-megawatt plant more than tripled the city's 2-megawatt solar generation capacity when it opened in December 2010. In the south-east quadrant of the city is the Mission District—populated in the 19th century by Californios and working-class immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and Scandinavia. By the mid-2000s (decade), the social media boom had begun, with San Francisco becoming a popular location for tech offices and a common place to live for people employed in Silicon Valley companies such as Apple and Google. [161] Such cities are characterized by their ethnic clustering, network of international connectivity, and convergence of technological innovation. This property is pet friendly. Minor earthquakes occur on a regular basis. San Francisco's tallest hill, Mount Davidson, is 928 feet (283 m) high and is capped with a 103-foot (31 m) tall cross built in 1934. A divide is created within the city of ethnic, typically lower-class neighborhoods, and expensive ones with newly developed buildings. [287] African-American street gangs familiar in other cities, including the Crips, have struggled to establish footholds in San Francisco,[288] while police and prosecutors have been accused of liberally labeling young African-American males as gang members. In 2013, over 1.5 million people attended, around 500,000 more than the previous year. [43] The following year, on March 28, 1776, the Spanish established the Presidio of San Francisco, followed by a mission, Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission Dolores), established by the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. 535 Leavenworth St #35 is located in Tenderloin, San Francisco. In 2014, San Francisco committed to Vision Zero, with the goal of ending all traffic fatalities caused by motor vehicles within the city by 2024. [270] San Francisco is the 16th most populous city in the United States, and the fourth most populous in California, with 881,549 residents as of 2019. [212][213], With the arrival of the "beat" writers and artists of the 1950s and societal changes culminating in the Summer of Love in the Haight-Ashbury district during the 1960s, San Francisco became a center of liberal activism and of the counterculture that arose at that time. leaders ignore weak buildings' quake risk". San Francisco was an early adopter of carsharing in America. [169] The 2017 Global Financial Centres Index ranked San Francisco as the sixth-most competitive financial center in the world. Also included are the uninhabited Farallon Islands, 27 miles (43 km) offshore in the Pacific Ocean. It has become North America's first gay village, and is now the center of gay life in the city. [341] Bay Wheels, previously named Bay Area Bike Share at inception, launched in August 2013 with 700 bikes in downtown San Francisco, selected cities in the East Bay, and San Jose. "[154] The city issues a Resident ID Card regardless of the applicant's immigration status. Both of these locations were often used as landscape shots for the hit American sitcom Full House. population in 2007", "As Bay Area Investment Shifts North, Institutional Venture Partners Opens San Francisco Office", "Startup City: The Urban Shift in Venture Capital and High Technology", "S.F. Large numbers of entrepreneurs and computer application developers moved into the city, followed by marketing, design, and sales professionals, changing the social landscape as once-poorer neighborhoods became increasingly gentrified. San Francisco Pride events have been held continuously since 1972. [251] The largest and best-known city park is Golden Gate Park,[252] which stretches from the center of the city west to the Pacific Ocean. The government of San Francisco is a charter city and is constituted of two co-equal branches: the executive branch is headed by the mayor and includes other citywide elected and appointed officials as well as the civil service; the 11-member Board of Supervisors, the legislative branch, is headed by a president and is responsible for passing laws and budgets, though San Franciscans also make use of direct ballot initiatives to pass legislation.[273]. Beat Generation writers fueled the San Francisco Renaissance and centered on the North Beach neighborhood in the 1950s. [224], The Sunset Reservoir Solar Project, completed in 2010, installed 24,000 solar panels on the roof of the reservoir. U.S. Census Bureau. [238] CNET, founded 1994, and Salon.com, 1995, are based in San Francisco. [27] Marin County, directly to the north over the Golden Gate Bridge, and San Mateo County, directly to the south on the Peninsula, were the 6th and 9th highest-income counties respectively. The members of the Board of Supervisors are elected as representatives of specific districts within the city. Entire neighborhoods such as the Marina, Mission Bay, and Hunters Point, as well as large sections of the Embarcadero, sit on areas of landfill. [41] The Yelamu group of the Ohlone people resided in a few small villages when an overland Spanish exploration party, led by Don Gaspar de Portolá, arrived on November 2, 1769, the first documented European visit to San Francisco Bay. This approach especially has influenced the continuing South of Market neighborhood redevelopment with businesses and neighborhood services rising alongside high-rise residences. "[120] Also, when Richard Henry Dana Jr. visited San Francisco Bay in 1835, he wrote about vast elk herds near the Golden Gate: on December 27 "...we came to anchor near the mouth of the bay, under a high and beautifully sloping hill, upon which herds of hundreds and hundreds of red deer [note: "red deer" is the European term for "elk"], and the stag, with his high branching antlers, were bounding about...", although it is not clear whether this was the Marin side or the San Francisco side.[121]. In 2013 (a "La Niña" year), a record low 5.59 in (142 mm) of rainfall was recorded at downtown San Francisco, where records have been kept since 1849. San Francisco forms part of the five-county San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 4.7 million people, and has served as its traditional demographic focal point. 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