December 2010
December 27
Urban Gleaning Program Puts Homegrown Food to Use, SF Gate
December 21
Positive changes around S.F. and environs in 2010, SF Chronicle (
Potrero Libary named in top 10)
November 2010
November 8 DPW's New Bike Port Makes Biking to Work Even Better, Bike Nopa
November 8 Final Pavement to Parks Plaza Skips Trial, Becomes Semi-Permanent Park, SFStreetsBlog
November 7 Giants parade leaves 17 tons of trash in its wake, SF Examiner
November 6 Parkside Library Back After Makeover, SF Gate
November 1 StreetScience: Tagged then Transformed Green, SF Gate
October 2010
October 29 Mohammed, i live here SF
October 28 Streets and sidewalks are looking better, SF Gate
October 26 Linden Alley Planners in SF Went Extra Mile, SF Gate
October 20 Blue Collar Yoga: It's a Stretch, Wall Street Journal
October 12 Lower Haight mural project showing colors, SF Examiner
September 2010
September 30 S.F. program a wake-up call to clean up streets, SF Gate
September 22 Tough anti-graffiti law for commercial trucks considered
September 22 Graffiti! - Not Just for Vandals, Scoutmob Blog
September 20 Green means stop for city’s graffiti vandals, SF Examiner
September 20 Sunday Streets comes to Western Addition, SF Gate
September 14 A Week of Biking Joyously: An American Delegation Learns from the Dutch, Worldchanging
September 14 Litterbugs Pack Too Much Trash, SF Examiner
Summer 2010 Enhancing the Streetscape Experience, (Pages 76-77), American Infrastructure Magazine
August 2010
August 8 Volunteers Beautify S.F's Western Addition, SF Gate
August 5 A New Blueprint for Tackling Graffiti, Wall Street Journal
July 2010
July 27 Owners Shaping the Image of Streets, SF Examiner
July 9 An Interview with Ed Reiskin, Head of DPW, San Francisco Bike Coalition
June 2010
June 22 SF Seeks Feminine Touch for Public Work, The Architect's Newspaper
June 4 Experts, Public Work to Solve Ocean Beach Erosion Problems, Sunset Beacon
June 4 Graffiti Eradication Efforts in SF Broaden, SF Examiner
June 3 The City Wants to Give You $250 to Report Graffiti, missionlocal.org
June 3 Cash for Graffiti-free Streets, SF Gate
May 2010
May 25 What Homeowners Need To Know Before Cutting A Tree, CBS 5
April 2010
April 14 New Street Park at Sixth and Brannan, SF Chronicle
March 2010
March 25 Street Repair Falls Victim to Budgets, New York Times
March 22 SF's Infrastructure Needs Highlighted, Calif. Counties Magazine
March 22 DPW Director Ed Reiskin Profiled, Calif. Counties Magazine
March 22 DPW Helps Build Better Libraries, Calif. Counties Magazine
March 19 DPW Beautifies & Transforms Divisadero Street, SF Gate
March 19 Mayor, Supervisor and DPW Celebrate City's First Parklet, SPUR
March 19 Concrete Street Turning into Parklet for Pedestrians, Planetizen
March 18 Mayor's Divisadero Street Press Conference, Youtube
March 18 SFDPW Fights Truck Graffiti w/Paint Jobs, American City & County
March 18 SF Fleets Get Help with Graffiti Removal, Government Fleet
March 18 SF Public Works Wants to Paint Your Truck Green, SF Appeal
March 18 DPW Helps Devlier First Parklet, SF Streetblog
March 11 Remaking San Francisco's Market Street, SF Streetblog
March 1 DPW Supports a Student Art Project on Potrero, Potrero View
March 1 Potrero Library Reopens, Potrero View
February 2010
February 13 Volunteers and Students Spiff up Chinatown, SF Gate
February 3 Chinatown to Get a Major Sprucing, SF Examiner
February 2 Bernal Library Reopens, SFSentinel.com
January 2010
January 30 Renovated Bernal Library Reopens, SF Gate
January 20 Cesar Chavez Street Gets Redesign, SF Streetsblog
January 8 DPW to Work on Saving Great Highway Land , SF Gate
January 8 Property Owners Appeal Fees for Blight Cleanup, SF Examiner
January 5 Unveiled, SF Public Safety Building, Architects Newspaper
January 4 City to Train Residents on Removing Graffiti, SF Examiner
December 2009
December 24 For Arborists, Danger Just Part of the Job, SF Examiner
December 24 DPW Urban Forestry Crew Hard at Work, SF Chronicle
December 5 111-year old Sunnyside Conservatory Reopens, SF Chronicle
November 2009
November 22 DPW Spruces up Downtown for Shoppers, SF Chronicle
November 19 Best New Buildings of the Decade Listed, Curbed SF
November 18 SF Building Green Streets, SF Streetsblog
October 2009
October 16 Mayor and City remember Loma Prieta earthquake, SF Examiner
October 14 Record rainfall, DPW answers the call, SF Examiner
October 13 DPW responds during October storm, SF Examiner
October 13 High winds, heavy rain expected, DPW gets ready, SF Chronicle
October 12 DPW takes action to amidst sudden downpour, ABC 7- TV
October 12 DPW and SF residents prepare for storm, ABC 7- TV
October 11 Turn Brown Leaves Green campaign launched, SF Examiner
October 9 New software used to catch graffiti vandals, SF Examiner
October 7 DPW Workers get healthy info at Health fair, SF Examiner