 Grant Avenue at Bush Street:
The Dragon Gate at the entrance to Chinatown | |
| Former name(s) | Calle de la Fundación,[1] Dupont Street[2] (1847)[1] |
|---|---|
| Namesake | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Postal code | 94108 |
| Coordinates | 37°47′51″N 122°24′25″W / 37.79750°N 122.40694°W |
| South end | O'Farrell Street |
| Major junctions | Jackson Street in Chinatown |
| North end | The Embarcadero |
| Construction | |
| Inauguration | 1845[citation needed] |
Grant Avenue in San Francisco, California, is one of the oldest streets in the city's Chinatown district. It runs in a north–south direction starting at Market Street in the heart of downtown and dead-ending past Francisco Street in the North Beach district. It resumes at North Point Street and stretches one block to The Embarcadero and the foot of Pier 39.
Grant Avenue is primarily a one-way street; automobile traffic can travel only northbound. In 2012, however, the two blocks of Grant Avenue between Sutter and Geary streets were converted to two-way traffic in order to ease southbound traffic congestion during the multi-year closure of Stockton Street, part of the construction plan for the Central Subway.[citation needed]
- ^ a b Philip Choy (2012). San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture. City Lights Publishers. p. 109. ISBN 978-08-728-6540-2.
- ^ Frank Morton Todd (1914). The Chamber of Commerce Handbook for San Francisco: Historical and Descriptive: a Guide for Visitors. San Francisco Chamber of commerce under direction of the Publicity committee. p. 71.