Fern Street
Fern Street at Polk Street
Fern Street is part of the Polk Street Improvement Project
Beginning in 2011 the City of San Francisco Metropolitan Transportation Authority has worked with numerous residents, merchants and community groups to help create a safer streetsape design for Polk Street. The proposed conceptual design includes many improvements, the following three helping to explain the changes on Fern Street.
- Pedestrian safety features such as corner “bulbouts”, daylighting, crosswalk upgrades and traffic signal improvements
- Transit enhancement such as bus stop consolidation, relocation and bus bulbs
- Public realm improvements such as landscaping, street lighting, and alley enhancements
Fern Street is part of the vibrant SF First Thusday Art Walk Project, so the improvements on Fern Street represent the streets place in this movement.
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti-like work grew out of the New York City street culture of the 1980s.
Angela Isadora Duncan Born in San Francisco on May 26, 1877 or May 27, 1878 (died September 14, 1927) was an American and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe.
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (October 1870 – July 1966) was a Japanese author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen (Chan) and Shin that were instrumental in spreading interest in both Zen and Shin (and Far Eastern philosophy in general) to the West.
Cesar A. Cruz is an internationally renowned poet, educator and human rights activist.
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.
Shirin Neshat (born 1957) is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects
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