Kevin Kropp

OPEN HOUSE: 262 Waller Street, Hayes Valley - San Francisco, CA
4 Beds, 4 Baths, 2,650 Sq. Ft.
Offered for $4,295,000

OPEN HOUSE:
Saturday, 1-4 PM
Sunday, 2-4 PM

History reborn! This amazing home has been meticulously renovated returning it to its original glory. No detail was missed from the walnut floors with radiant heating throughout, expansive ceiling height, detailed moulding and trim throughout juxtaposed with modern kitchens and baths. New Foundation and 3+ car parking!

Kevin Kropp
[email protected] | 415.606.1415
kevinsfhomes.com | DRE # 01413211

Robin Hubinsky
[email protected] | 415.939.4028
DRE # 01330553

                       

The World’s 21 Most Powerful September 11 Memorials

From New York to Italy to England, these architects, designers, and artists pay moving tributes to the victims of the attacks

Designing a memorial, particularly a 9/11 memorial, can be a challenging yet extremely meaningful process for an architect, designer, or artist. The question of how to sum up the impact of an unimaginable tragedy in a single structure or sculpture has ultimately led to creatively symbolic designs that seek to honor the memories of the victims and serve as places for remembrance and meditation for those left behind. 

“To the Struggle Against World Terrorism,” Bayonne, New Jersey
National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York City
Pentagon Memorial, Arlington, Virginia
Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, Pennsylvania
The Rising, Valhalla, New York
Postcards, Staten Island, New York
Empty Sky, Jersey City, New Jersey
Boston Logan International Airport 9/11 Memorial, Massachusetts
9/11 Living Memorial Plaza, Jerusalem, Israel
Memoria e Luce, Padua, Italy
September 11 Memorial Garden, London
“Moving Memories,” Phoenix, Arizona
“After 9/11,” London, England
“Reflect,” Rosemead, California
Memorial Labyrinth, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
“The Sphere,” New York City
“Trinity Root,” West Cornwall, Connecticut
Jersey City 9/11 Memorial, Jersey City, New Jersey
“Recovering Equilibrium,” Los Angeles, California
9/11 Garden of Remembrance, Boston, Massachusetts
Tribute in Light, New York City



Images and copy sourced from Architectural Digest

Discover The Nation’s Oldest Italian Heritage Parade In San Francisco

Viva Italia! Don't miss the Italian Heritage Parade on October 8, 2023 in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood.

San Francisco’s vibrant Italian community will come out in droves this October to celebrate the Italian Heritage Festival. Festivities include a bazaar all weekend long, and of course the Italian Heritage Parade with Fernet pit stops along the route on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. You don’t want to miss this giant party lifting up the contributions of Italian-Americans in San Francisco. Read on to discover the schedule of events.

Italian Heritage Parade
12:30pm Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

This legendary event is the oldest Italian Heritage Parade in the United States, dating back to 1868. Originally the Columbus Day Parade, it officially changed its name in 1994 after public backlash against an event celebrating Christopher Columbus. Nevertheless the parade still draws a loyal crowd to celebrate Italian-American culture in San Francisco.

This year’s parade will start off at 12:30pm on Sunday Oct. 8 at the foot of Jefferson and Powell Streets in Fisherman’s Wharf. It will cruise through North Beach on Columbus Ave and end in Washington Square in front of the church.

Fernet Pit Stops are a fun part of the parade route where you can savor some Fernet periodically along the route to keep you going. See here for participating bars, restaurants, and 2023 updates.

#2023

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San Francisco’s Oldest House Is Now Available To Rent

The historic home that is over 170 years old is available to rent, but only as an office space.

Beautiful historic homes and buildings populate San Francisco’s streets. From the rows of colorful Victorians to large government buildings, it’s easy to reminisce on San Francisco’s history.

Now, a piece of SF’s history is looking for its newest occupants. The Abner Phelps House, generally considered one of the oldest houses in SF, is available for rent. Before you get too eager, while the historic house is on the renter’s market, it is available as an office space rather than a residential one.

The three-story house has five parking spaces, a small front garden, and totals to 3,800 square feet. The historic building is located at 1111 Oak Street, in the Haight, just off the bustling Divisadero Street and within walking distance from the scenic Panhandle. This historic house turned office doesn’t come cheap; the rental rate is $15,998 per month or $191,976 for a year.



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Copy sourced from SecretSanFrancisco.com

Got to meet Belinda Carlisle last night!

Kevin Kropp
[email protected] | 415.606.1415
kevinsfhomes.com | DRE # 01413211

           

Top 25 Restaurants
Where to eat in the Bay Area, Summer 2023

Anchovy Bar
1740 O'Farrell St., SF

Animo
18976 Sonoma Hwy., Sonoma

Copra
1700 Fillmore St., SF

Daytrip
4316 Telegraph Ave., Oakland

Delfina
3621 18th St., SF

El B***o Veloz
4815 Lone Tree Wy., Antioch

Egglicious India
4996 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose

Friends Only
1501 California St., SF

Han Sang
420 Broadway, Millbrae

LeYou
1100 N. First St., San Jose

Lion Dance Cafe
380 17th St., Oakland

Mama’s Boy
15 Grand Ave., Oakland

Mariscos El Aguachile 8
1111 N. Capitol Ave., San Jose

Mazra
504 San Bruno Ave., San Bruno

Mingala Restaurant
39055 Cedar Blvd., #108, Newark

Noodle in a Haystack
4601 Geary Blvd., SF

Saison
178 Townsend St., SF

San Ho Won
2170 Bryant St., SF

Street Social
29 Petaluma Blvd. North, Unit F, Petaluma

Suragan
250 Hyde St., SF

Table Culture Provisions
312 Petaluma Blvd., Petaluma

Teni East Kitchen
4015 Broadway, Oakland

Troubadour Bread & Bistro
381 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg

Village Sake
19 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax

Wah Jee Wah
32681 Mission Blvd., Hayward



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JUST LISTED + OPEN HOUSE: 256 Evelyn Way, Miraloma Park - San Francisco, CA
3 Beds, 1 Bath, 1 Car Parking
Offered for $1,349,000

OPEN HOUSE:
Saturday and Sunday, 2-4 PM

Miraloma Charmer with lots of surprises! This home is so much more than meets the eye. On the surface it is a lovely 3 bed 1 bath home, take a deeper look and be amazed. The updated bath with skylight, a huge deck off of the kitchen that walks out to a spacious yard perfect for entertaining family and friends and there is more. Did you say Entertainment space? There is a bonus tiki bar or home office at the lower level! 1 car garage and tons of storage. This one is not to be missed. Single family home at Condo pricing!

Kevin Kropp
[email protected] | 415.606.1415
kevinsfhomes.com | DRE # 01413211

           

6 Times Designers Modernized Old Furniture—And Why You Should Try It

While still classic, these pieces are no longer stuck in the past

From badly faded upholstery to uneven chair legs, sometimes older pieces of furniture require an overhaul in repairs. In cases like these, when a new coat of varnish alone won’t work, don’t just junk your old furniture. Instead, think of this as a golden opportunity to modernize it with splashes of daring paint colors, contemporary hardware, and brilliant fabrics.

A Modernized Mini Bench
1970s Milo Baughman Style Dining Chairs
A Peacock Blue Buffet
Schumacher Vanderbilt Velvet Chairs
An Updated Antique Chest
Neoclassical Louis XVI Style Chairs



Images and copy sourced from Architectural Digest

SF’s New Waterfront Market Has Free Stand Up Paddle Boarding

The Park Market at Crane Cove kicks off this weekend in the Dogpatch with free stand up paddle boarding and much more.

There’s a new recurring market in town and we can’t wait to check out its kickoff event this Sunday, August 6, 2023. The Park Market will come to Crane Cove Park in the Dogpatch every month through November with a different theme for each rendition, plus free paddle boarding lessons! Read on for all the details.

The Park Market will take place from 11am-5pm on the following dates in 2023:
Aug 6 – Summer Mercantile with local makers, artisans, and summer activities.
Sept 2 – Secondhand Saturday with vintage fashion and neighbors’ garage sales.
Oct 28 – Trick or Treat Market with Halloween activities, crafts, and trick-or-treating.
Nov 19 – Holiday Mercantile with holiday gift shopping.

Each market will feature great live musical performances, delicious food and drink vendors, and fun activities including FREE paddle boarding lessons from Dogpatch Paddle. The paddle boarding lessons last 20 minutes each in small groups of up to 5 people learning to paddle board. Register in advance for a spot between 11am-2pm.



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1931 Anza Street, Inner Richmond - San Francisco, CA
3 Beds, 1 Bath, 2,535 Sq. Ft.
Offered for $1,795,000

This Charming Inner Richmond Jewel Box has not been on the market in over 40 years! Built in 1911, this spacious single family home features 2,535 Sq ft with beautiful hardwood floors, lots of period details. The perfect home awaiting your personal touch. The flexible floor plan features 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, formal living and family room. The first floor opens into the main large living room with a wood burning fireplace, box beam ceilings and hardwood floors, a formal dining room, kitchen, guest bedroom with half bath and a family room flooded with natural light complete the main level. The second floor boasts a spacious primary bedroom with a walk-in closet plus a second closet. The second bedroom is a large bedroom with an attached sunroom. Perfect for a playroom, home office or possible convert to a primary bathroom. There is a full bath completing the upper level. Off the back deck you are led into your very own garden oasis, perfect for relaxing with family or friends, let this home be your muse.

Cristal Wright
[email protected] | 415.699.4366
DRE # 01846453

Kevin Kropp
[email protected] | 415.606.1415
kevinsfhomes.com | DRE # 01413211

                                       

1931 Anza Street, Inner Richmond - San Francisco, CA
3 Beds, 1 Bath, 2,535 Sq. Ft.
Offered for $1,795,000

This Charming Inner Richmond Jewel Box has not been on the market in over 40 years! Built in 1911, this spacious single family home features 2,535 Sq ft with beautiful hardwood floors, lots of period details. The perfect home awaiting your personal touch. The flexible floor plan features 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, formal living and family room. The first floor opens into the main large living room with a wood burning fireplace, box beam ceilings and hardwood floors, a formal dining room, kitchen, guest bedroom with half bath and a family room flooded with natural light complete the main level. The second floor boasts a spacious primary bedroom with a walk-in closet plus a second closet. The second bedroom is a large bedroom with an attached sunroom. Perfect for a playroom, home office or possible convert to a primary bathroom. There is a full bath completing the upper level. Off the back deck you are led into your very own garden oasis, perfect for relaxing with family or friends, let this home be your muse.

Cristal Wright
[email protected] | 415.699.4366
DRE # 01846453

Kevin Kropp
[email protected] | 415.606.1415
kevinsfhomes.com | DRE # 01413211

There Are New Free Pickleball Courts At The Palace Of Fine Arts
With the sport's recent popularity, SF Recreation and Parks has added indoor pickleball courts at the Palace of Fine Arts.

On July 11, 2023, SF Recreations and Parks opened new pickleball courts at the historic Palace of Fine Arts. The courts are open to the public and free of charge. Pickleball has seen increasing popularity nationwide, and SF is no exception. The sport is very social and typically accessible for beginners– even if you frequently looked for excuses to get out of gym class as a kid– the game can still be fun for new players. Plus, it’s a great way to socialize and meet new people while being active.

Three brand new courts are available Tuesday through Sunday mornings, from 9:30 am to 11:00 am. Players can easily reserve the courts via the Rec and Parks online system.

The courts are the product of a partnership between SF Recs and Park and Dink SF, a pickleball organization that offers clinics, classes, and machine rentals. Classes various courses include a 75-minute beginner course, drill play, an introductory clinic, and even a class targeted at tennis players wanting to learn pickleball.

Plus, if you want a solo-practice session, you can book a ball machine to get plenty of reps in. Located in the scenic and vibrant Marina District, you have plenty of great restaurant options for a post-game snack.

Pickleball’s recent popularity has skyrocketed in San Francisco. Just five years ago, in 2018, the city only had 12 courts, and now the new courts make the count reach an impressive 67.



Images and copy sourced from Secret San Francisco

Price for Prestigious Nob Hill Penthouse Has Dropped by a Third

Purchased for $7 million at the end of 2013 and then completely renovated, with custom millwork, Venetian plaster, Italian marble, and high end finishes throughout, the 4,320-square-foot, two-level penthouse unit #1002 atop the Park Lane at 1100 Sacramento Street returned to the market priced at $12.495 million in June of 2020.

Reduced to $10.495 million in September of 2020 and then to $8.995 million in January of 2021, the TIC unit was briefly in contract but never closed escrow.

Relisted for $8.995 million this past March, the asking price for the prestigious Nob Hill penthouse has just been further reduced to $7.995 million, a sale at which would be “at asking” according to all industry stats and aggregate reports and would appear to represent “a million dollar gain,” ignoring the seven-figure budget for the renovation.



Images and copy sourced from SocketSite.com

First Taste: The Presidio's Dalida is an Eastern Mediterranean delight

I know I’m not the only one who, eating regularly at the kind of restaurants most of the country would kill for, sometimes forgets just how privileged I am to live in the Bay Area.

When you can have oysters, organic farm-fresh produce, and grass-fed meats any time you want them, the extraordinary becomes ordinary.

But then, one day, you sit down at a new spot and it's like waking up in the Emerald City. What was beginning to appear black and white suddenly ignites with color. That’s Dalida, the modern Eastern Mediterranean restaurant from husband-and-wife team Laura and Sayat Ozyilmaz, that just opened in the historic red-brick barracks lining the southwest corner of the Presidio’s Main Parade Lawn.

The chef power couple (formerly of Noosh) is braiding the familiar and exotic into something unexpected, with flavors that are balanced, approachable, and objectively delicious but also bold and palate-pushing. They’re doing something no one else in SF is—and they’re doing it really, really well.



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JUST LISTED & OPEN HOUSE: 1931 Anza Street, Inner Richmond - San Francisco, CA
3 Beds, 1 Bath, 2,535 Sq. Ft.
Offered for $1,795,000

OPEN HOUSE:
Saturday & Sunday, 2-4 PM
Tuesday, 11 AM - 1 PM

This Charming Inner Richmond Jewel Box has not been on the market in over 40 years! Built in 1911, this spacious single family home features 2,535 Sq ft with beautiful hardwood floors, lots of period details. The perfect home awaiting your personal touch. The flexible floor plan features 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, formal living and family room. The first floor opens into the main large living room with a wood burning fireplace, box beam ceilings and hardwood floors, a formal dining room, kitchen, guest bedroom with half bath and a family room flooded with natural light complete the main level. The second floor boasts a spacious primary bedroom with a walk-in closet plus a second closet. The second bedroom is a large bedroom with an attached sunroom. Perfect for a playroom, home office or possible convert to a primary bathroom. There is a full bath completing the upper level. Off the back deck you are led into your very own garden oasis, perfect for relaxing with family or friends, let this home be your muse.

Cristal Wright
[email protected] | 415.699.4366
DRE # 01846453

Kevin Kropp
[email protected] | 415.606.1415
kevinsfhomes.com | DRE # 01413211

   

See Pictures: 11 Buildings That Are Even More Beautiful at Night

It’s worth waiting for the sun to set at these iconic destinations

There’s a certain magic that comes with a twinkling skyline. A testament to human design and innovation, a city at night seems to embrace visitors and residents with a softer touch and promises of enchanting experiences within. Though there might be nothing quite like the glow of a metropolis shining in harmony, that same wonder can be experienced at individual buildings as well. In fact, some structures are even designed to come to life at night in ways they just can’t quite achieve under the sun. Below, AD surveys 11 of these unique buildings that are even more beautiful at night.

The Empire State Building (New York City, New York)
National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing, China)
Meydan Bridge (Dubai, United Erab Emirates)
Canton Tower (Guangzhou, China)
Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center (Astana, Hazakhstan)
The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia (Valencia, Spain)
Beijing National Aquatics Center (Beijing, China)
Monument to the Revolution (Mexico City, Mexico)
Flame Towers (Baku, Azerbaijan)
Lotus Temple (New Delhi, India)
Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay (Downtown Core, Singapore)



Images and copy sourced from Architectural Digest

OUT of Site Sylvester Series Keeps it Real - NEW DATES!

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN UPDATED SINCE OUR PRINT EDITION WENT TO PRESS. THE NEW OPENING DATE IS AUGUST 11

It’s 1972 and I’m nine years old sitting under the shade of eucalyptus trees in Golden Gate Park, witnessing my first wedding. Crouched next to a bed of wildflowers in the Shakespeare Garden, I look up at the two grooms towering over me. Sylvester, a gay black drag queen and soon-to-be disco pop star stands beside his male counterpart, both donning long flowing white gowns with white flower crowns in their hair.

Although I was just a child, Sylvester’s wedding left me with a lasting and radical impression. In an era when few people came out in public, Sylvester had given himself permission to express himself as the fabulous life-affirming gender fluid person he was and live exactly as he chose. He was a revolutionary.

“Sylvester created the blueprint for so many non-binary and trans people and q***r people of color to be themselves in a moment when it was not easy to do so, especially if you were a person of color, and non-binary or transgender in that era,” says Seth Eisen. Eisen is a visual and performance artist and artistic director of Eye Zen Presents which is celebrating Sylvester’s legacy this summer in a new production, "Sylvester, The Mighty Real", the fifth in a series of walking tour-performances conceived of by Eisen, to elevate and preserve the hidden q***r history of San Francisco. Audience members are given headsets and walk from location to location to experience events in the settings where they took place.



Copy sourced from SFArts.org
Images sourced from TheGuardian.com and SFArts.org