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Balboa Park is a public park in the Mission Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco, California.It was originally dedicated in 1909 when the park included the land now used by City College of San Francisco Ocean Campus west of I-280 Freeway.
The area was the scene of escalating drug violence in 2007, including brazen daylight shootings, as local gangs from San Francisco, and others from around the Bay Area battle for turf. [ 29 ] 14 of the city's 98 homicides took place in the area in 2007. [ 30 ]
Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States [4] [5] that is known for its numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions.Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class.
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (/ ˈ m juː n i / MEW-nee; SF Muni or Muni), is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California.It operates a system of bus routes (including trolleybuses), the Muni Metro light rail system, three historic cable car lines, and two historic streetcar lines.
The largest bodies of water in the Bay Area are the San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay. The San Francisco Bay is one of the largest bays in the world. Many inlets on the edges of the three major bays are designated as bays in their own right, such as Richardson Bay, San Rafael Bay, Grizzly Bay, and San Leandro Bay.
As of 2020, 38 Fortune 500 companies had headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. [1] San Francisco-based businesses are not listed here; the subset of San Francisco-based businesses by type is at the list of companies based in San Francisco. This list includes extant businesses formerly located in the Bay Area, which have moved, or been ...
This is a list of foreign diplomatic missions located in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. As of February 2024 [update] , the area hosts 42 consulates-general from 41 countries (Mexico has two). 38 are located in the city of San Francisco ; there is one each in Palo Alto , Burlingame , and San Jose .
Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.It is the ballpark for Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers.Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of US$23 million (US$232 million in 2023).