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The San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival and Parade is an annual event in San Francisco, California, United States. Held for approximately two weeks following the first day of the Chinese New Year, it combines elements of the Chinese Lantern Festival with a typical American parade. First held in 1851, along what are today Grant Avenue and ...
San Francisco Public Works was officially created on January 8, 1900 with the name of Board of Public Works. Its first task was to organize and regulate street construction and paving projects throughout the city. The original four bureaus were: Streets, Lighting, Building, and Light & Water Services.
The first Hall of Justice (1900–06) was opposite Portsmouth Square, at the southeast corner of Kearny and Washington, occupying a building originally built in 1851 as the Jenny Lind Theatre and purchased by the city in 1852 for use as the City Hall. While a new City Hall was being constructed between 1872 and 1899 at Civic Center, the old ...
With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, [25] San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers) [26] at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the ...
San Francisco Unified School District Administrative Building at 555 Franklin Street. San Francisco Unified School District ( SFUSD ), established in 1851, is the only public school district within the City and County of San Francisco, and the first in the state of California. [3] Under the management of the San Francisco Board of Education ...
377.47 ( FTE) [1] Student–teacher ratio. 22.04:1 [1] Other information. Website. www .rcsdk8 .net. Redwood City School District (RCSD) is the public elementary school district serving Redwood City, California. As of 2019–2020 school year, the district serves over 8,500 students in 16 schools. [2]
The South San Francisco Public Library is located in South San Francisco, California. It is an independent city library and part of the Peninsula Library System, [4] a consortium of city, county, and community college libraries in San Mateo County. The library holds approximately 166,000 volumes and has 29,000 borrowers.
Overhead line , 600 V DC. Average speed. 8.1 mph (13.0 km/h) [5] The San Francisco Municipal Railway ( / ˈmjuːni / 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 ...