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York St

95 decisions the Board of Supervisors took about York St, between 1906 and 2002, read from its own minutes and each linked to the scanned page; most of them in the 1910s; often about parking, streetcars and transit, paving and grading.

Open York St on the map, street by street

What keeps coming up

  • Parking7Where you could leave a car, and where you could not.
  • Streetcars and transit4Streetcar lines built, extended and pulled up again.
  • Paving and grading4Cutting streets to their official level and surfacing them.
  • Land bought and sold4Land changing hands with the city on one side of it.
  • Railroads and spur tracks3Rail lines run into factories and yards — the industrial city, mostly gone by 1930.
  • Sewers3Sewers laid, broken, replaced — and occasionally sinking with the ground.

Decade by decade

Newest first. Each decade shows its most notable decision; the line opens the scanned page.

  1. 2000s4
    Permit parking set on 9th Avenue, Kirkham and 16th Avenue · 2001
  2. 1990s4
    U-turns banned on Army Street at Bryant, Harrison and York · 1990
  3. 1980s4
    Stop signs established on 22nd and 23rd Streets at York · 1987
  4. 1970s3
    Board refuses to buy the Twenty-fourth Street lot for a mini-park · 1971
  5. 1960s2
    Part of York Street between Alameda and Fifteenth closed for good · 1969
  6. 1950s6
    Vacant land bought between Hampshire and York Streets near Alameda · 1950
  7. 1940s6
    Board orders part of York Street closed for good · 1940
  8. 1930s10
    Alameda Street to be graded between Potrero Avenue and York Street · 1930
  9. 1920s17
    Olof and Charles Monson paid $70,000 for the Mariposa Street land · 1925
  10. 1910s24
    Land at York and Mariposa streets bought for a streetcar barn · 1914
  11. 1900s15
    $200 paid for a strip of York Street land for widening · 1909

The most notable decisions

Where this comes from

Every decision the record places on this street is here. Every line is written from one item in the minutes of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the city council, and links to the page it was printed on at the Internet Archive or in the Clerk's own files. Many of the Board's decisions name no street at all, and only the ones that do can be placed here. How the record was read · The whole city