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The U.S. Census Bureau estimates San Francisco's population to be 881,549 as of July 1, 2019, with a population density of 18,838/sq mi. [176] Bank of America, a pioneer in making banking services accessible to the middle class, was founded in San Francisco and in the 1960s, built the landmark modern skyscraper at 555 California Street for its corporate headquarters. In the 1910s, a wave of Central American immigrants settled in the Mission and, in the 1950s, immigrants from Mexico began to predominate. [284] [326] In recent years, the city has installed better cycling infrastructure such as protected bike lanes and parking racks. The population of Chinese ancestry is most heavily concentrated in Chinatown, Sunset District, and Richmond District, whereas Filipinos are most concentrated in the Crocker-Amazon (which is contiguous with the Filipino community of Daly City, which has one of the highest concentrations of Filipinos in North America), as well as in SoMa. 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[29] After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,[30] San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. Its private golf course has hosted the U.S. Open on five occasions. [135], In the second technological boom driven by social media in the mid 2000s, San Francisco became a location for companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter to base their tech offices and for their employees to live. [295], San Francisco has nearly 300 preschool programs primarily operated by Head Start, San Francisco Unified School District, private for-profit, private non-profit and family child care providers. This was the first television. [31] The explosion of jobs drew many people, especially African Americans from the South, to the area. [201] A recent high of 7 billion dollars in venture capital was invested in the region. [citation needed]. During the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge began recording motion photographically and invented a zoopraxiscope with which to view his recordings. The de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park features American decorative pieces and anthropological holdings from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, while Asian art is housed in the Asian Art Museum. San Francisco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) characteristic of California's coast, with moist mild winters and dry summers. [48] With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, and gambling. [334], Cycling is becoming increasingly popular in the city. As buildings collapsed from the shaking, ruptured gas lines ignited fires that spread across the city and burned out of control for several days. San Francisco residents have often ranked among the fittest in the country. California Earthquake forecast – UCERF3 – USGS Factsheet (non-technical) Mar, 2015. In particular, the arrival of many ethnic Chinese, which began to accelerate in the 1970s, has complemented the long-established community historically based in Chinatown throughout the city and has transformed the annual Chinese New Year Parade into the largest event of its kind in its hemisphere. [56] More than half of the city's population of 400,000 was left homeless. All major U.S. television networks have affiliates serving the region, with most of them based in the city. [21][25] The CSA San Francisco shares with San Jose and Oakland, with a GDP of $1.09 trillion as of 2019, is the country's third-largest urban economy, following New York City and Los Angeles. [123], According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, the largest religious groupings in San Francisco's metropolitan area are Christians (48%), followed by those of no religion (35%), Hindus (5%), Jews (3%), Buddhists (2%), Muslims (1%) and a variety of other religions have smaller followings. [73] In the 1970s, the city became a center of the gay rights movement, with the emergence of The Castro as an urban gay village, the election of Harvey Milk to the Board of Supervisors, and his assassination, along with that of Mayor George Moscone, in 1978. It has become North America's first gay village, and is now the center of gay life in the city. [330][331][332], San Francisco has significantly higher rates of pedestrian and bicyclist traffic deaths than the United States on average. [114][115] Perhaps the first historical observer record was from the De Anza Expedition on March 23, 1776. It was home to the first lesbian-rights organization in the United States, Daughters of Bilitis; the first openly gay person to run for public office in the United States, José Sarria; the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, Harvey Milk; the first openly lesbian judge appointed in the U.S., Mary C. Morgan; and the first transgender police commissioner, Theresa Sparks. [203] More than 25 million visitors arrived in San Francisco in 2016, adding US$9.96 billion to the economy. ", "It's no laughing matter — SF forming Poop Patrol to keep sidewalks clean", "La Mara Salvatrucha Street Gang – San Francisco", "SAN FRANCISCO / Sureño gang's threat growing in Bay Area / Widow's apartment is at heart of group's Mission District turf", "Crip-less: S.F. The city's first television station was KPIX, which began broadcasting in 1948. Box Office: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Stomps to Big $6.7M Thursday The tentpole has earned an impressive $16.3 million in its first two days of play in the U.S. [246], The Palace of the Legion of Honor holds primarily European antiquities and works of art at its Lincoln Park building modeled after its Parisian namesake. [32][33][34] After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, along with the rise of the "beatnik" and "hippie" countercultures, the Sexual Revolution, the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi. city. 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Local theater companies have been noted for risk taking and innovation. [citation needed]. Articles relating to the City and County of San Francisco. Beat Generation writers fueled the San Francisco Renaissance and centered on the North Beach neighborhood in the 1950s. Ancient Constructs: Settra starts with a necrosphinx, which can go toe to toe with the most powerful beasts of Warhammer. The REAL “Lunatic Fringe”, and where to find it Tap News / Weaver. The team began playing its home games at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara in 2014. ", Construction of the Pacific Railroad was partially (albeit reluctantly) funded by the, Bacon, Daniel: Walking the Barbary Coast Trail 2nd ed., pp. The influential San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association or SPUR was founded in 1910 to address the quality of housing after the earthquake. [315], To accommodate the large amount of San Francisco citizens who commute to the Silicon Valley daily, employers like Genentech, Google, and Apple have begun to provide private bus transportation for their employees, from San Francisco locations. [296] All 4-year-old children living in San Francisco are offered universal access to preschool through the Preschool for All program.[297]. San Francisco forms part of the five-county San Francisco–Oakland–Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 4.7 million people, and has served as its traditional demographic focal point. San Franciscans built schools, churches, theaters, and all the hallmarks of civic life. In the first six months of 2015 there were 25 murders compared to 14 in the first six months of 2014. extends biotech payroll tax exemption", "Mayor Lee Announces New Biotech Incubator in Mission Bay", "City and County of San Francisco, California Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, for the Year ended June 30, 2018", "Salesforce to house 1,500 more workers in second Transbay tower", "San Francisco is gateway city for immigrants and Silicon Valley Technology", "An Overview of San Francisco's Recent Economic Performance – Executive Summary", "Supervisors OK limits on chain-store expansion", "Proposition G: Limitations on Formula Retail Stores, City of San Francisco", "Made in San Francisco: Manufacturing a comeback", "The Post-Industrial "Shop Floor": Emerging Forms of Gentrification in San Francisco's Innovation Economy", "S.F. [225][226][227], San Francisco also has had a very active environmental community. 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