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BART says service stops between Glen Park, 24th Street stations are safety precautions

BART passengers may be noticing a number of service stops between Glen Park and the 24th Street station, and while this may offer little solace to riders running behind schedule, the agency has said that the interruptions are planned and necessary. Read More

Thuggish couple ask victim if she ‘was ready’ before beating, dragging and robbing her

A woman told police that thug robbers slapped her, dragged her on concrete and then ran over her legs with a car during a harrowing heist at the Glen Park BART station on Saturday.Around 7:35 p.m., the victim was waiting for the bus across from the station when one of the suspects, a woman in her 20s, “asked her if she was ready” before abruptly slapping her across the face, police said. Read More

Glen Park farmers market coming to BART

After a year of debate about where to put a Glen Park farmers market, the neighbors may have finally found a spot.The nonprofit Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association is trying to secure the Glen Park BART Station parking lot on Sundays since it’s not really used by the neighbors.Neighbors and merchants could not agree on a spot last year, so it never happened. Read More

Glen Park cottage fire displaces two people and a dog

A fire apparently caused by a gas stove displaced two people and a dog from a cottage in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood early Monday morning, the San Francisco Fire Department reported.The blaze was reported to the fire department at 12:21 a.m. and responders were on the scene at 1317 Bosworth St. two minutes later, the Fire Department said. Read More

Glen Park changes to be discussed with neighbors

City planners put the finishing touches on an updated draft plan to overhaul the Glen Park neighborhood, which will be explained for residents during a Sep. 14 community meeting. Planning for an overhauled Glen Park neighborhood, which will be anchored by an improved BART station, began more than seven years ago. Read More

Anti-Semitic graffiti found at playground

Cindy Chew/The Examiner
Parents and their children discovered several anti-Semitic writings scrawled around the Glen Park Playground on Wednesday. The graffiti was cleaned in a matter of hours, and it’s being investigated as a possible hate crime. Several large swastikas, epithets and phallic images on a mural depicting playful children outside the recreation center came as a shock to Tristan Seifer, who arrived at the playground with her kids about 11 a.m. Read More

Glen Park garden tickles all senses

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Gardens are like people — they have their own attitude. The best ones communicate on multiple levels at once. When the owners of a Glen Park Victorian undertook a major renovation of their home, it left their garden, a full city block at 3,200 square feet, in complete disarray. To complicate matters, the lot is on a very steep slope, which created runoff problems and challenges with vertical planting. Read More
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