I like seeing that they're restoring the San Francisco Ferry Building and surrounding area, having lived on Beale Street at the Avalon Towers and really appreciating that area. When I lived there the harbor was part of my neighborhood. Though I certainly visited it while living throughout the bay area, including Sausalito, Oakland, and the San Francisco Sunset district (blocks away from Irving St. and Golden Gate Park).
The funny thing though, is that when I lived in Oakland I visited the San Francisco Farmer's Market most often. I seemed to be taking time for that kind of thing in my early Bay Area days. Later, when I lived just blocks away, near the foot of the Bay Bridge, I suppose I was keeping to more of a social schedule, and nurturing my business in order to come up with the $4k+ per month rent I was paying for the Bay view at the time. Or maybe because I saw the Bay looking out my windows every day I didn't feel a need to visit the Ferry Building, though I did drive past it quite often. Back then the Farmer's Market was held across the street to the West, closer to Market Street and the Embarcadero Center buildings.
Read The New York Times article "New Life for San Francisco's Harbor" here.
Ferry Building photo: by Peter DaSilva, The New York Times
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