Bernal Heights

There was nannies that were mugged just a few blocks away.

There were shootings at local parks where I lived at in Bernal Heights.

And there was all sorts of problems.

I was assaulted on the street once, physically assaulted.

Just coming into our newsroom, crews are battling a one-alarm fire on Peralta Avenue.

This is not far from Highway 101 in Bernal Heights Park.

You can see lots of smoke in that video here shared by the fire department.

At this point, we're working to learn more about how it started and if anyone was hurt.

And what ended up happening was I remember there was one day we lived in San Francisco at the time.

in a fabulous park called Bernal Heights, which is kind of the height of the lesbian community in San Francisco.

And we had gone for a walk and we were having this conversation and we were sitting on the stoop of these steps of, you know, of a building.

And I looked at her and I said to her in no uncertain terms, I said, I need to be really clear with you.

And what's normal for a market area is very different based on where you go, you know.

Like if, what's a good example of this? You know Bernal Heights? You know that neighborhood in San-

San Francisco, yes.

Yeah.

So Bernal Heights is full of these earthquake cottages.

They were built, like, right after the 1906 earthquake.

And so you have this earthquake cottage from '06 or '07, and then you have an addition that was stapled on in the 1960s, and another addition from the 1980s, and then you have a, a little pop top that was stapled on in 2001.