Filbert Street
Half-block hill pitched at roughly thirty one percent grade, long mythologized as the city's steepest.
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This guide to Filbert Street in San Francisco opens with a late-night TV crew sending hundreds of watermelons rolling down the block in 1996, and traces the long-running claim that this half-block, tilted at roughly thirty one percent, is the steepest street in the city. It follows a blogger who set out with a measuring tool to test that reputation against other contenders across town in Bernal Heights. Listen for what the numbers actually turned up, and why the story stuck to Filbert anyway.
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