Samantha V
@Sam3SF
Mom of 3 who loves this city.
The Black Bird Bookstore has been promoting the closing of the Great Highway for years including holding events and sponsoring the Great Hauntway on Halloween back when it was called Great Highway Park, before Sunset Dunes, dropping the word park from the name.
Interestingly enough Kathryn Grantham was also the source for a San Francisco Standard article about the Great Highway in June of 2024. Is the Black Bird Bookstore the official spokesperson for the Friends of Sunset Dunes? I’m starting to see a pattern here.
Joel, just emailed you a public records request to support your statement "foot traffic is up" on the UGH. I was hoping you would stop doubling down on your push to keep the UGH closed. Please don't make things up.
Closing the Muni deficit starts with basics: suspend all new "traffic calming" projects, lay off planning staff, end taxpayer funding for lobbying orgs like the Bike Coalition, issue an RFP for autonomous shuttles on cut lines, and license all bikes in SF to fund infrastructure.
Muni funding report: ‘The path ahead is complicated’ to close Muni deficit - The Voice of San Francisco thevoicesf.org/muni-funding-r…
Socialism fails. Trying to socialism better, harder also fails. Main question to Dems who are deluded into buying the crap Mamdani, Sanders, The Squad et al are selling: will you never wake from your Utopian fever dream? You are destroying the greatest nation in human history.
Zohran Mamdani's "free" bus rides would not be free — New York City would loose an estimated $650 million annually. Who will be left to pay for that loss? New Yorkers. Kansas City tried this and it failed.
Thank you city of San Francisco for providing resources to @TheCoalitionSF so that they are able to finance suing the city. Other non-profits should use this approach because clearly our city attorney is willing to fold like a cheap suitcase.
Mayor Lurie and the Board of Supervisors have approved fees for public facilities in San Francisco including parks and sports courts. This shift raises accessibility concerns for these previously free public spaces. This move threatens accessibility and freedom to enjoy these…
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Would be a dream for SF, CA, the Democratic Party and the country. We really need to vote him out. He needs to be primaried when he runs for Pelosi’s seat. That’s the only way.
The man accused of murdering his mother with a gunshot to the head last month is a Honduran who, 45 days earlier, had been ordered to attend anger management classes by a San Francisco court after assaulting another woman, it has emerged. sfpublicsafety.news/man-who-murder…
Please reopen Market Street! I'm nervous about driving Downtown with all the SFMTA street changes and the parking situation is tougher than before. #defundSFMTA
Joel, this is our summer sunset tonight— a single person on UGH. Unlike Rec-a-Park, it’s a misrepresentation to count all those people on the sand as using the UGH.
🌅 Sunset Dunes is taking care of business — literally. Foot traffic is up. Sales are booming. And people are discovering all the great things our neighborhood has to offer. That’s real progress. That’s results. Let’s keep it going. Vote No on A Stop the recall #SunsetDunes
this is what yimbys take from us: beloved small local businesses nypost.com/2025/07/21/lif…
Says the self-appointed king of passing legislation very specific to SF at the state level because you know it wouldn’t make it through an election here. Hypocrite.
We have a few of those do as I say not as I do type of politicians here, don't ya think? @JoelEngardio @openthegreathwy
"Blueprint for a Better San Francisco isn’t a fresh start; it’s a rebranded project bankrolled by Neighbors for a Better San Francisco to mask a conservative, billionaire‑backed agenda." Attention: @Scotty_Jacobs
Oh hey look at that, the owner of Black Bird Bookstore Kathyrn Grantham was also the source for Heather Knight’s NYT article back in May were she said her sales were up 35%, what a coincidence.
At Black Bird Bookstore on Irving Street between 46th and 47th Avenues, owner Kathryn Grantham told SFGATE her sales are up 50% over last year, when the Great Highway was closed to cars on weekends, and jumped by 30% following the opening of the park. sfgate.com/local/article/…
Lower Great Highway gets no parking for 6 hours of street cleaning. Totally, anti-car!
This you too, Joel? Great progress. 👏
Hey look who’s all for closing down your streets. They are all the same. Those who think that Engardio and Wiener are somehow “moderate” are smoking some serious crack.
Here are Scott Wiener, Joel Engardio, Myrna Melgar, and Dean Preston supporting the dream of a few white billionaire tech bros (“Thanks for the political contributions, Zack!”) and ignoring the predominantly Asian, working class residents of the Sunset District.