Patricia’s Green In Hayes Valley Park
Sloped green wedge born from a demolished freeway, now home to rotating outdoor sculpture.
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This guide to Patricia's Green in San Francisco's Hayes Valley starts with the double-decker freeway that once ran through this block, cracked by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the neighbor, Patricia Walkup, who organized her block to keep it from being rebuilt. It follows her fight through three city ballot measures against an unlikely coalition of merchants, cyclists, and gardeners, all the way to the day the last section of the old freeway finally came down. Listen for what the neighborhood chose to put here in its place.
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