Divisadero Street (commonly shortened to Divis, pronounced ) is a north–south city street in
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
. Beginning at the city's northern waterfront, it runs south, passing through the
Marina District,
Cow Hollow,
Pacific Heights, and further provides the traditional boundary between several neighborhoods before terminating at 14th Street, near
Buena Vista Park and
Corona Heights Park.
Background
The road was laid out when the
Western Addition was planned in the 1850s. It was initially the western city boundary.
s along the street provided traffic which supported a vibrant commercial corridor in the
streetcar suburb
A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United States in the years before the automobile, when ...
starting in the 1870s.
Prior to 1909, the road was spelled as Street.
The neighborhood would evolve into a predominantly African American population, which was largely displaced by
urban renewal
Urban renewal (sometimes called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address real or perceived urban decay. Urban renewal involves the clearing ...
projects in the 1960s.
San Francisco Municipal Railway
The San Francisco Municipal Railway (SF Muni or Muni ) is the primary public transit system within San Francisco, California. It operates a system of List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines, bus routes (including Trolleybuses in San Franc ...
bus service is offered along the corridor via the
24 Divisadero south of Jackson Street and the
30 Stockton
30 Stockton is a trolleybus line operated by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. The line is notable for being the slowest trolleybus route in the city of San Francisco because it travels through the densely populated neighborhood of Chinatown, ...
in the Marina District.
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Streets in San Francisco